FabR
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My apology in that I (mis)read your first post, "My dad is selling his" with a link to the sale -- it certainly implied that your father owns the watch and not the auction house!
The substance of my comment however remains, as I cannot like the timing of a thread that advertises and discusses in detail a watch up for sale only 3 weeks later --- whether you own the watch or the auction house selling it. For optical reasons, I would have made the same post as you, which is technically interesting, but only after the sale was done. But it's up to the moderators, not me, to decide whether this post should stay.
In any event, glad to know you are confident everything is original with the watch -- in which case, it's definitely a nice example of a Tudor. I look forward to more contributions from you on this forum ;-) Cheers.
Is this a Unique Version of the Tudor Oyster Sub-Mariner 7923?
Given some of the very interesting and informative previous threads that I have found on this Board regarding the Tudor Submariner 7923, I thought people might be interested to see what I think might be a unique version of the Tudor Oyster SubMariner 7923...
Thank you for this. With regards the dial and the hands...
The hands definitely aren't typical of the 7923 - but this is exactly what is making me think it is a unique version of the watch, possibly a prototype? Because the serial number is previous to the $100,000 ebay watch, then this watch must have been made ...
Meaning a lot of shenanigans go on with vintage pieces, in particular the dial
People adding text here, removing it there. A lot of forgery goes on to potentially add thousands or tens of thousands to the value of the watch. If your Grandfather was the original owner, then past down later to your Dad, you are probably in good shape....
My dad doesn't own an auction house - I wish he did! [nt]
It is his watch though, which is why I have become so interested in it and want to find out if this long-time family watch really is a unique 7923. I also thought that if it was a unique 7923 that people on here would want to know about it given the rarit...
My apology in that I (mis)read your first post, "My dad is selling his" with a link to the sale -- it certainly implied that your father owns the watch and not the auction house!
The substance of my comment however remains, as I cannot like the timing of a thread that advertises and discusses in detail a watch up for sale only 3 weeks later --- whether you own the watch or the auction house selling it. For optical reasons, I would...
Thank you for this...
Firstly, let me assure you that this watch is genuine. It was left to my dad in 1983 by my grandad and had previously been left to him by his brother. I never thought for a moment that anyone on here would think this watch was fake and am mortified that t...
I have found another 7923 with the same hands, dial and movement.
It sold at auction in 2015: www.the-saleroom.com
Sorry, the dials are not the same.
I did see the triangle eating into the rose because it was mentioned in this article: But I thought the text on the dials were the same. However, I've just realised that the text is not presented in the same order. My dad's is shock-resisting - depth - s...