....in the last fifteen years or so.
It would have been nice to sell them for this price!
But as my wife's grandfather used to say: "If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle!"
On a more serious note, I've been saying for years that these are under-valued (compared to the obvious alternative, the milsub, which used to reliably fetch ten times the price) Part of the reason is that I think fewer of these have survived - I well remember the chap who devised the water-proofing tests for military dive watches at Hurstmonceaux telling me how the Omegas always kept turning up looking like spirit levels! He told me the movements were far nicer than the Rolex equivalents, but the cases didn't protect them as well (and of course, this led to the change of crown from Naiad to screw-down in the Omegas)
Today's price is however astonishing, and I suspect we shouldn't imagine that the baseline has been reset - auctions are a bit of a law unto themselves after all.
(For those that knew him, Marci would be delighted.)
Best wishes,
Martyn.