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Old 20 March 2024, 02:15 PM   #1
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Oxidation kills it?

Just found this in my grandfather’s things. He was always on a ship and in salt water. Does it have any value or worth restoring?
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Old 20 March 2024, 10:44 PM   #2
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I would recommend opening the back and see what type of damage a battery powered movement has with this type of exposure / reaction to the outside.
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Old 20 March 2024, 10:54 PM   #3
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That's an old fake, sorry
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Old 21 March 2024, 03:24 AM   #4
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Unfortunately not a real Rolex
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Old 21 March 2024, 03:35 AM   #5
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Maybe your grandfather had one of the super ultra crazy rare stainless DayDates…
Then again, odds are >99.99%, NO Way…
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Old 21 March 2024, 07:19 AM   #6
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Old fake. Sorry


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Old 21 March 2024, 08:24 AM   #7
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One of these days we’ll get a watch that’s legit and from a person with more than one post
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Old 21 March 2024, 09:29 AM   #8
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One of these days we’ll get a watch that’s legit and from a person with more than one post
Plenty of grandfathers…and drawers…out there.
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Old 22 March 2024, 01:56 AM   #9
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Old 28 March 2024, 07:50 AM   #10
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One of these days we’ll get a watch that’s legit and from a person with more than one post

There has been some legit ones, one guy had a long thread going. It was his uncles or something, was buried in a garden or something strange.

I believe he sent the dial off to be repainted to classic. I don’t know if we ever saw the results.


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Old 29 March 2024, 07:46 AM   #11
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Why are these stories always the same... lol
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Old 2 April 2024, 09:44 PM   #12
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Because only people find and wear watches, and they are human attempting
due diligence...
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Old 3 April 2024, 07:47 PM   #13
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Been a few weeks since grandad died and left another fake…..they are really good at that…..
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Old 3 April 2024, 11:19 PM   #14
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It’s not people doing their due diligence that’s the issue, it’s one-time posters with fake watches left behind by their “fathers”/“grandfathers”/“step-grandfathers”/etc. on a monthly basis around here, and then who vanish just as quickly as they appear.
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