I Am Fascinated By This Result

MyVintageOmega
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Thought I've seen about everything.......what's the price of rust these days per ounce?
 
alam
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Well, that one looks like it went down 50 fathoms and back!
 
SpikiSpikester
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Actually, I'm starting to be fascinated by what you were searching for so as throw up that result
 
LouS
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U ulackfocus
Anyone wanna bet it "sells" again, and again, and again....

I'd take that bet. It would have taken coordinating multiple shills to drive up that price and this strikes me as too esoteric an object to try that on. Everyone bidding on this is a veteran, knowledgeable collector - no newbies to fool here.

Can anyone who knows FFs attempt to break down the value here? I see a salvageable, correct case and possibly a movement. Anything else?

SpikiSpikester SpikiSpikester
Actually, I'm starting to be fascinated by what you were searching for so as throw up that result

Procrastination leads me down strange alleys. But this one was not my search. If you knew what an eye the searcher who showed me this has for the unpolished gem, you would be less surprised. (This, by the way, is not one of the unpolished gems)
 
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LouS LouS
Not sure I can think of many watches that would command that price in that condition. Discuss.

This is the only thing that comes to mind.

antikythera.jpg

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
 
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MMMD MMMD
This is the only thing that comes to mind.

antikythera.jpg

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

From the link:

Professor Michael Edmunds of Cardiff University, who led a 2006 study of the mechanism, said "This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its kind. The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely carefully ... in terms of historic and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa."
—30 November 2006


Um, if it's basically a piece of stone now how the hell can they tell it worked at all?
 
LouS
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There's some Turkish fisherman laughing his head off over what we've made of some rusted hatch fitting from a sunken tramp steamer.
 
MMMD
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Um, if it's basically a piece of stone now how the hell can they tell it worked at all?

Through the magic of radiology.

e20bbc03db6700d2913034d5d03b2717.jpg

See? It's obvious.
 
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MMMD MMMD
See? It's obvious.

Oh... well, since you've shown me that it all makes perfect sense! 🙄 😜
 
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georgetownhoya georgetownhoya
How about this demilitarized Tudor?

Denatured would be a better description.

LouS LouS
Hublot (of all brands), who has our own ulackfocus is a relentless brand ambassador😜, has reconstructed the Antikythera.
http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/2011/1...ay-back-builds-antikythera-device-for-th.html

There's probably a few jokes in there, like using Antikrist and something about building homages, but I'm at a loss right now because that's actually sort of cool.
 
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Not sure I can think of many watches that would command that price in that condition. Discuss.

Sentimental value.
 
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That's an awful lot of sentiment 😲

Yeah, really - must have been some gold amongst all that sediment.

..... oh, wait.... sentiment. Nevermind!

 
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