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Thoughts on this Signal alarm watch?

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Hello dear forum members, I need your help once again. This time I have a chance to buy a watch, which design is probably the most appealing for me from all Russian watches- Signal alarm watch. Still, its not that cheap (somewhere around 90$, not Sturmanskie, but still quite much :-d ) Here is a picture:
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Any thoughts about actual pricing (I can actually discuss that with a seller) and the watch itself?
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Looks good except some of the red alarm numbers on the perimeter appear faded (may be the photo) and the alarm crown is a replacement. On the other hand A gold case in decent condition is hard to find and a dial with that center recess is different. So some good and some bad but all-in-all I could see this watch coming directly from the owner in this condition and while not perfect, not that bad, either. I'd try to get the price down a little mostly because of the crown but it's in the ballpark.

That's my opinion.
Thank you very much for a really quick feedback! I'll surely include an argument about the crown to slightly reduce a price. Condition is somewhat good, sad thing those red numbers seems to be faded... Do you think it would be possible to ask a watchmaker to clean that dust on the lower part of the dial? And is it possible to date this watch?
All right, thanks for the tips, I guess I won't clean those, unless those which are really just dust stuck on the side of the glass. I'll also look into its back when I'll meet with the seller
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Contacted the seller, he claims that those red numbers look like that just because of the photo and only are a bit faded. By the way, he is also selling two other watches for a similar price, just thinking if they are rarer or more valuable?

This one is cheaper by almost one fourth the price, with 2809A movement:
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Even cheaper one:

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These two arent as appealing to me, but I might have enough money to buy one of these if they are valuable enough for my collection
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Thanks for your feedback! Vostok looks realy nice for me too, but I really love the design of Signal. I really hate to choose, but after paying taxes for a flat I think I will be able to buy both of them haha. ZIM doesn't look appealing to me, so I am quite happy that it's not that valuable. By the way, according to that article, isn't 2809B a bit less rare and precise compared to 2809?
All right, just agreed to buy both Vostok and Signal tomorow
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Both of the watches are mine now, so happy about both! As always, thank you dear forum members for your help, I can't really say how many times already Schnurrp helped me! Here are the watches:
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Sorry for rather bad quality of the photos, but I must say that all of those red numbers can be perfectly seen, just a bit faded.

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Can't believe that I did it, but I opened the back of Vostok and took a picture of the movement:

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Well said, thank you very much! I really like both of them and they feel valuable and vintage. While Vostok will most likely be put as a part of my collection, I am more than sure I'll sometimes wear my Signal as it just looks so beautiful to me.
Very nice! I say: wear them! That is what they were made for. not to gather dust somewhere!
Thanks! Yeah, I guess you are right, I feel really bad then I don't wear every one of my watches at least once a week, no matter if it's my cheap Amphibia or really valuable Sturmanskie
Thank you very much serdal23!

Schnurrp, I'm talking about my Sturmanskie I bought after getting help in this thread, you should remeber it: https://www.watchuseek.com/f10/buying-sturmanskie-watch-744680.html
Sorry, wolf3d. My memory's not what it used to be but I remember you very well now.

You're the guy with one of the highest quality Russian watch collection around...a little small but you can work on that!
I never really looked at my collection like that, thank you very much!
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