Reply With QuoteDo you have the item number please? I’d like to have a look.Originally Posted by Jezzer
Have followed a Loyswatch restored 6105 just sell for $1325. Looked very clean, but Jeese, what's goin? Enjoy the beer tonight Mr Loys!
Do you have the item number please? I’d like to have a look.
I'd like to see that as well. Did it have any special provenance?
Just your average Loy aftermarket restore, you have to wonder why people pay silly prices for them. At least he describes them properly!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SEIKO-DIVERS...p2047675.l2557
Wow. Good for the seller that someone is willing to pay that much, not a bad business.
I suspect that this was a shilled auction - especially above the $700 mark.
Expensiver than a original. Why?
Have been eyeing up the market , and I can see the attraction of the polished body if not the AM dials which I wish they would make more original looking. This is possibly the cleanest ive seen for some time, but grail or not, I'm not paying those prices!
Glad I already have one.
Interesting. To my eyes it looks horrible, but there are those who are presumably not bothered by the fake (for that is my understanding of the word “aftermarket”) hands and dial.
Like Lenny above, I find it hard to believe that it really achieved $1300.
To my eyes too. Parts produced by third parties fall into two categories to me, parts that are branded, dials, signed crowns, straps etc and parts that aren't, hands, inserts, stems, crystals that sort of thing. The branded stuff I think of as fake, the non branded aftermarket.
^What he said^. Above $700 there were only two bidders. One with 26 feedback and 76% bid activity with this seller and the other with two feedback and 100% bid activity. I guess Mr Loy wasn't happy at $700 and decided to pump it up to $1350 hoping that the original genuine bidders and watchers are still out there and have cash to burn when it gets re-listed.
Yeah iffy price - maybe some poor sap put too high a 'top price' on to get it and got shilled.
For me it's effectively been ruined anyway by all the aftermarket stuff on it. I love the 6105s but for me originality is key - even if they look old and tired. I also can't for the life of me understand all these people who are selling 6309-7040s with the 6105 dial and hands - for me they're ruining a perfectly good watch to no real end, which will never be what it's purporting to be.
Last edited by RayTango; 6th April 2014 at 09:22.
Unfortunately some people would prefer shiny and new looking to original.
Cheers,
Neil.
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