Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)

In my case the advert I placed (on adverts) was seemingly doubled up onto done deal without my knowledge, or at least I didn't remember instructing it to or unchecking a box so it wouldn't. I dislike dd for similar reasons, if someone has positive feedback you can hopefully expect a straight forward transaction.

Generally if I'm selling something expensive I'd rather do it at a distance via c24 or on adverts where I can know who I'm dealing with ,done deal would concern me personally!

Horses for courses.

Done Deal is suitable for some things, Adverts another and C24 different again.

I just put up the warning because I thought it worthwhile to highlight the methodology. This was for a relatively low value item, but nonetheless, it was a scam that would have given access to a personal financially linked account.

The scammer started with asking for delivery to a real residential address. And through the communication, it seemed genuine, until it went down the email route and I smelled a rat.

The phish email was well crafted and professionally done, but knowing where to look, it quickly became apparent that the 'at first glance' legitimate domain was in fact an obfuscated redirect to a dodgy domain.

It takes only a moment of inattention from even a seasoned seller to fall foul of such things, and I'm the first to admit I've been far down the route a few times before pulling back.

it was good you spotted it, I think they rely on folks getting excited about a sale

I once had a sale in eBay for a seamaster and it was addressed to a caravan park in the U.K. and I had my doubts but I posted it off anyway, a few days went by and I could see the buyer signed for it and then up popped a message saying she hadn’t received it and requested a refund

In proof of delivery was her name printed and signature, when I told her this she then made up a cock and bill story about the warden of the park signing for it and left it in the draw in the office ha ha

People try all sorts these days and we really need our heads screwed on when buying or selling anything

Further to my comments on how this company are approaching escape velocity from solely being a preserve of the homage niche.

Entirely in house design with their own guilloche dial in mother of pearl. While it's not my bag personally hats off to them. It will be a more striking dial than this monochrome photo shows. Having worked with mop there is likely a large portion of spoilage in making these, it's a difficult material.

Would like to see them do likewise in more natural materials.

Yeah these watches are seriously impressive. You can’t accuse them of lacking original designs at this point either:

https://sanmartin-watch.com/products/sn0144cg?srsltid=AfmBOop6m4XvahpZh3POJzMwiv50fySnH9qxgQfcbwRnVv7aPq83MaWv&VariantsId=13563

Seriously tempted to buy the above and get a sense of the quality in hand. Every review raves about the finishing relative to price. And a Miyota Series 9 movement more than acceptable for the price.

An amusing way to pass a few minutes.

Ingenious fix to a difficult problem!

In a similar buzz… A good tip I learnt on quartz alarm watches missing that wee spring that forms the contact from module to piezo on caseback......break apart a 2mm spring bar and use the spring.

I've just handled a fake vintage Omega that I think apart from size, would take quite a lot of people in.

Indeed the only reason it didn't pull the wool over my eyes?

Is that I've spent months looking at 50s/60s era Geneva & Constellations when I was looking for the kid's 21st bday present and found out about the fakes via omegaforum.

The main tell?

Is that Omegas from that era are 34mm & 36mm, very beautiful but small. Omega Jumbo's are 38mm but this one just seems far too fresh to be a 60yo watch IMHO.

This is a 38/39mm watch that looks the part, nice lugs too but size and Observatory on the case back are off.

Amazing what ya find at a wedding 😉

The borders and engraving are off as are the dimensions. A genuine example here for comparison.

It's also the wrong size for what I think it is, tho that said. I am far from an Omega vintage expert.
Here's what I think it's trying to be.

I didn't tell him today but I'll let him know during the week what I think is off with it.

The dial has has a nice aged look to it and the watch itself looks worn, it doesn't look brand new but it has no real wear on it and the strap it's on is a gorgeous black lizard skin with an omega signed Tang buckle that looks brand new.

I'll meet up with him during the week with a cashback opener to see what's inside. I might find myself very surprised to find an Omega 551 or other 5xx movement. I would bet tho that rather than a vintage 19800 bph movement in there, that it's a 2824 or 2893 clone running at 28800 bph.

It really is a lovely little thing though and I hope he wasn't stung for a market value price for it. Much as goes are a bad thing, I hope he knew what he was buying rather than got caught.

https://amzn.eu/d/f5cXJqd

this?

I think the promaster tough is a bit of an understated modern icon. Monocoque case, sapphire with ar, bulletproof, form follows function and a sprinkle of magic. Sometimes I wish I only had one watch to own because this would probably be it.