Reply With QuoteThat's a good price considering the condition.
Rod
Although listed as a PRS3 it looks like a PRS4 to me. Loads of wabi to say the least. Although they are uncommon
seems an excellent price for the seller. I have no connection with the watch or seller.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2911264106...84.m1423.l2649
That's a good price considering the condition.
Rod
Never seen that prs-variation before - when were they sold?
Originally Posted by RayTango
Broadarrow was BP, Before Precista. Eddies of course not Southerns who supplied the UK military with watches in the eighties and nineties.
Not sure when these Broadarrow's were actually sold, my guess is early 2000's.
All of the history of Timefactors is on the Wayback machine
I pressed the "Order" button on the PRS-11 just incase it worked.
It didn't.
I am wondering if it would be worth swapping the sword hands for some with black paint on.
I like my quartz PRS4, but the white around the lume is less defined than the PRS-3 with the black edges.
I think it would work if I used black sword hands.
Definitely a PRS-4. For the newbies here (anyone post-Broadarrow), this is the black PVD version of the PRS-3, quartz, sapphire crystal, screwed back and crown, lithium-powered high-end quartz (same as the later Precista PRS-10B). Only a few hundred PRS-3s were ever made, of which just 150 had black PVD cases and again half of those the black dial (as opposed to an orange one). I.e. a non-official limited production run of 75. All the backs were non-pvd steel with PRS-3 markings, they were never marked as PRS-4 but were sold as such by our host to distinguish them from the blank steel version. Eddie will correct me if I'm wrong, but that is what I remember and I am looking at my own PRS-4 (bought from him in 2006) sitting on my wrist as I write this. It's my daily watch.
The one sold on eBay got an awful lot of WABI, it looks like the owner used it as a club to beat Afghan rebels into submission when his gun ran out of ammo, or something like that (I am sure the watch can take that sort of thing). I do a fair bit of garden work with mine, including sand and grit, and use it for hot-air ballooning which is not a gentle way to treat your watch, but it looks a lot less used than this one.
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