and "oldprecious". seems to be a lot of the same type of watch. Anyone here bought one?I have looked, and most of the watches seem to have been restored. Some of the dials have strange colours, etc.
I take it the actual watchstore is called "watchlotus" or "old watch collection"? The pics seem to me to be very much the same.
I am getting interested in Seastars as well. I won one that ended up needing $160 worth o f service. I did get a ladies seastar in pretty nice shape which is at the LWS as we speak. cant wait to see it. I kinda thought the India seastars were a little too good to be true but i will keep an eye out.I collect Seastars and have seen the 'Indian redial' watches. A friend bought a Favre Labre watch from one of them, and while the case and mov't were fine, the repainted dial was awfull, and it now sits in a drawer!!
I have on occasion had a look thru their watches to see what they've got, and I have found a few watches with original unrestored/painted dials with the rest of the watch looking clean too, so it may be worth having a look sometime?!!
As for buying a repainted one?? Wouldn't touch one with a bargepole.....so to speak ;-)
I tend to look out for good honest auctions where someone is selling Grandads/Uncles old Tissot watch that they don't know much about!! I've picked up some really nice one's for not much money at all, some needing no work at all, and others maybe a service and new crystal or a polish!!
No, I wouldn't bother mate!! The majority of them have had the dial 'professionally refurbished' but most aren't up to much, and as said before, can have problems elsewhere, ie mov't & case.Sorry guys, for interrupting. What is the bottom line? Bid or not to bid from ebay if the item from India/India seller? Me to seen this tissot and favre-leuba in ebay which from India.
Agreed. I'd look elsewhere also, though some of them really do look tempting!I think they are all probably old watches, but they repaint/refurbish the dials and quite often, in my opinion, they look TOO new.
I would like to see some pics of the mov't, but it's not really a problem as I won't be buying from there to start with!!
Look elsewhere my friend....same with Favre-Leuba, they do the same thing to them too :roll:
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