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Old 21 April 2019, 12:40 PM   #31
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I’d bet they are original.
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Old 21 April 2019, 12:41 PM   #32
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I’d bet they are original.
hands for sure and i think dial too
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Old 21 April 2019, 07:28 PM   #33
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great little find I must say.

What baffles me is how a thrift store would sell a rolex watch (I know its in bad condition) for $2.50. A 5 min google search and you would know its worth more. Anyway, their loss!

I cant tell if the "cracks" are on the crystal or the dial itself - i'm assuming crystal but have never seen such damage before.

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Old 22 April 2019, 01:09 AM   #34
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What baffles me is how a thrift store would sell a rolex watch (I know its in bad condition) for $2.50.
I wondered about that too. The guy who found/sold it said, about the thrift store, that "I went there on a school service trip and found the watch sorting items from donation boxes."
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Old 22 April 2019, 01:39 AM   #35
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I would bet that he was going through the donation boxes and found the watch before any of the store members did. Then perhaps he just mentioned that he found a broken old watch. It's not inconceivable.
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Old 22 April 2019, 01:41 AM   #36
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I cant tell if the "cracks" are on the crystal or the dial itself - i'm assuming crystal but have never seen such damage before.

Keep us posted!
Definitely from the crystal, the old crystals can craze pretty badly.

A replacement crystal and a set of hands and this watch will look incredible.
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Old 22 April 2019, 04:54 AM   #37
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Old 22 April 2019, 05:38 AM   #38
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Awesome! Like finding a needle in a haystack!

Is the Dial Spidered/Cracking looking?
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Old 22 April 2019, 07:58 AM   #39
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great little find I must say.

What baffles me is how a thrift store would sell a rolex watch (I know its in bad condition) for $2.50. A 5 min google search and you would know its worth more. Anyway, their loss!

I cant tell if the "cracks" are on the crystal or the dial itself - i'm assuming crystal but have never seen such damage before.

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Definitely from the crystal, the old crystals can craze pretty badly.

A replacement crystal and a set of hands and this watch will look incredible.
Crystal. Look at the hands, and you'll see the cracking on top of them, which you wouldn't if it were the dial.
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Old 22 April 2019, 08:00 AM   #40
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I would bet that he was going through the donation boxes and found the watch before any of the store members did. Then perhaps he just mentioned that he found a broken old watch. It's not inconceivable.
Unfortunately, it's not inconceivable that someone would cheat and defraud a charitable organization while supposedly donating his time to help them. Not you ... the original "buyer".
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Old 22 April 2019, 08:06 AM   #41
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Yep dial is not cracked. However rust and other particulates have settled on the dial. Hopefully that will clean up. Will be getting the caseback opened this week when my watchmaker is back from Easter.


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Old 22 April 2019, 08:12 AM   #42
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Unfortunately, it's not inconceivable that someone would cheat and defraud a charitable organization while supposedly donating his time to help them. Not you ... the original "buyer".
Why is it cheating or fraud? Charity shop didn't pay anything for it, and if they didn't recognize what was donated to them, then that's on them. At the end of the day, they had $2.50 more than they started with.

Now, if the original buyer deliberately attempted to misrepresent what he'd found, that's a different story.

But to simply ask: "How much for this watch?" without offering up an opinion on its theoretical value isn't either (even if it's not the most charitable approach).
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Old 22 April 2019, 08:16 AM   #43
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Why is it cheating or fraud? Charity shop didn't pay anything for it, and if they didn't recognize what was donated to them, then that's on them. At the end of the day, they had $2.50 more than they started with.

Now, if the original buyer deliberately attempted to misrepresent what he'd found, that's a different story.

But to simply ask: "How much for this watch?" without offering up an opinion on its theoretical value isn't either (even if it's not the most charitable approach).
Sounds like you may be the buyer ... you seem to know so much about how the situation went down.
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Old 22 April 2019, 08:29 AM   #44
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Why is it cheating or fraud? Charity shop didn't pay anything for it, and if they didn't recognize what was donated to them, then that's on them. At the end of the day, they had $2.50 more than they started with.

Now, if the original buyer deliberately attempted to misrepresent what he'd found, that's a different story.

But to simply ask: "How much for this watch?" without offering up an opinion on its theoretical value isn't either (even if it's not the most charitable approach).
Eh, I think it's a little irresponsible to not at least disclose that it's a Rolex. I doubt any thrift shop employee if told it was a Rolex would follow through with the sale for just 2.50. There's also the question if the original buyer simply pocketed the watch when he came across it. We will never know.
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Old 22 April 2019, 09:41 AM   #45
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Yep dial is not cracked. However rust and other particulates have settled on the dial. Hopefully that will clean up. Will be getting the caseback opened this week when my watchmaker is back from Easter.


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Old 22 April 2019, 05:52 PM   #46
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Crystal. Look at the hands, and you'll see the cracking on top of them, which you wouldn't if it were the dial.
Yep good point.

Crystal it is. The dial could be in amazing condition!
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Old 23 April 2019, 04:17 AM   #47
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Old 23 April 2019, 04:51 AM   #48
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Eh, I think it's a little irresponsible to not at least disclose that it's a Rolex. I doubt any thrift shop employee if told it was a Rolex would follow through with the sale for just 2.50. There's also the question if the original buyer simply pocketed the watch when he came across it. We will never know.


This was my thought when I read the story. The sorting area is most likely full of things and really busy, that the original “buyer” pocketing it might have been a possibility. Anyone can recognize the brand “Rolex” and would not dare to sell it without trying to check if it’s authentic. I just found out that Goodwill had an online auction for watches it receives, including smaller vintage brands. Sometimes there are Rolex and Omega too. I’m not saying the buyer was sorting at Goodwill, but I’m sure thrift stores have their processes on pricing.


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Old 27 April 2019, 12:19 AM   #49
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Old 27 April 2019, 01:52 AM   #50
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Sent it to Rolliworks a couple days ago. Waiting to hear back on the movement...
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Old 27 April 2019, 02:02 AM   #51
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Sent it to Rolliworks a couple days ago. Waiting to hear back on the movement...
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Old 27 April 2019, 04:17 AM   #52
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Yep, I've been in contact the whole time and Mike is honestly great. Can't say enough about how great he is with communication.
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Old 27 April 2019, 06:08 AM   #53
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Watch is good - normal light up on lume. The tritium is dead but the compounds once excited by the tritium are still excited - briefly - by natural / UV light....

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Its definately NOT a "Basket Case" (LOL)

I think the dial is going to be awesome, its the yellowed crystal thats making it look so bad.

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Old 27 April 2019, 11:59 PM   #54
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Eh, I think it's a little irresponsible to not at least disclose that it's a Rolex. I doubt any thrift shop employee if told it was a Rolex would follow through with the sale for just 2.50. There's also the question if the original buyer simply pocketed the watch when he came across it. We will never know.
Well, I am assuming that original buyer at least showed an employee the watch. I think it's reasonable enough that someone who doesn't know watches would think that a "busted" Rolex is worth just as little as any other broken and beat-up watch. Not out of the realm of possibility to think that a watch in that visual condition is "junk" regardless.
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Old 28 April 2019, 12:53 PM   #55
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What a sick sick watch. I would just go get a fresh tube of crest toothpaste and work on the crystal while drinking a nice glass of Chardonnay until I could see the dial. Then wear it as is
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Old 1 May 2019, 08:44 AM   #56
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Update: Mike has sourced a new tropic 19 for the watch and is currently servicing the movement. It's all original.
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Old 1 May 2019, 08:54 AM   #57
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So no “basket case” ? Lol
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Old 19 May 2019, 04:49 AM   #58
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Just got it back from Mike at Rolliworks. He did a fantastic job getting a new T19, servicing the movement, brushing top of lugs, and reluming the hands. The hands were in very very poor shape (hour hand was blackened and the other two didn’t have any lume) so I opted to get them relumed.

Mike was in constant communication and very helpful. I will definitely be sending my 1016 there for service!




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Just got it back from Mike at Rolliworks. He did a fantastic job getting a new T19, servicing the movement, brushing top of lugs, and reluming the hands. The hands were in very very poor shape (hour hand was blackened and the other two didn’t have any lume) so I opted to get them relumed.

Mike was in constant communication and very helpful. I will definitely be sending my 1016 there for service!




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Looks amazing!
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Old 19 May 2019, 05:10 AM   #60
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