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871,000 including commission.
Looking in the brochure the watch was owned by an Italian business person/powerboat racer.
There is a real on Instagram where the auction house says that he bought the watch in the 1990s from an Italian jewellery shop. There is a photo of him wearing the watch with what looks like the dial that is currently in the watch. This photo doesn’t feel particularly recent (it might be).
We see from the auction result that the watch has a high value. What auction house wouldn’t want to sell it? How well would they be serving their client (the seller) if the were making a point a big point of the dial being swapped? Also if they made that comment in the small print (and they do say items are sold as is) then would that be fair?
If one of us was given this watch then how would we treat it? Would we swap the dial back out for an earlier dial? If we wanted it to be sold then how would we go about that?
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