Vintage nightmare is back!

I bought this for my father in law because he had owned an automatic Seamaster sometime in the past. This piece turned out to be a really bad frankenwatch and I ended getting him a better Seamaster.

This one sat at the watchmaker for over three months waiting for a new dial from Switzerland. Now I'm trying to figure out if it's worth selling or keeping. Looking at the market I might struggle getting half of the money I'm into it.

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I bought one of these in my early days of collecting. I’ve never had it looked at but I’m pretty sure the dial is wrong and I think I’d rather not delve to deep and punish myself BUT it’s great looking watch, has an Omega movement that sounds sweet when winding and keeps great time. 
 

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It does ’loiter’ in my watch roll, and rarely comes out to play but I’m reluctant to pass it on. I paid £400 for mine (some time ago) I don’t know if that’s horrible or not. 
 

Question - how bad was yours?

Aside - this is the genuine Oris I bought for £40. I think I nailed this one 👍

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DAF_punk

I bought one of these in my early days of collecting. I’ve never had it looked at but I’m pretty sure the dial is wrong and I think I’d rather not delve to deep and punish myself BUT it’s great looking watch, has an Omega movement that sounds sweet when winding and keeps great time. 
 

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It does ’loiter’ in my watch roll, and rarely comes out to play but I’m reluctant to pass it on. I paid £400 for mine (some time ago) I don’t know if that’s horrible or not. 
 

Question - how bad was yours?

Aside - this is the genuine Oris I bought for £40. I think I nailed this one 👍

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I bought this one for 600€ which is a fair price for a working old watch. However when I got the watch it would wind and run but poorly and clutch didn't work as it should in an automatic. It went to an Omega certified watchmaker and he said the movement needed service pretty badly. As he was taking it apart he noticed that the crystal was glued on and the dial was glued to the movement. After getting the movement to working like new he tried to reassemble it but dial didn't fit because it didn't belong to the watch and that is the reason for all the gluing.

So he called Swatch Group and ordered a new dial that took 3 months to arrive.

So what is the financial damage? Service 400€, Dial 300€ and other parts 100€.

All in this watch cost me 1400€ 😂

Lessons learned and no more buying used watched from Ebay only new ones.