Hamilton SS - How Much!

[bucko170]

I'm maybe missing something here, it's a nice watch but is it worth that much?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NOS-VINTAGE-HAMILTO ... 51911682e1

[bruce wegmann]

No, it's the two high bidders who are missing something...a sense of reality. True, this is a nice Hamilton, one of the best I've seen on eBay, but, even allowing for the condition, and the box, at $1,148, this was NO bargain. Somebody paid about $500 more than this package was worth [maybe they both had private buyers lined up who were heir to coffee fortunes or something]. This auction goes next to the boxed stainless P3 that went for $1300 a few years ago [in the Departure-From-Reality category].

[clockace]

i was watching that one as well. i couldn't believe my eyes as it went up. on another note, i recently attended a nawcc show and picked up a s/s date command and a near mint s/s pulsar calculator for cheap. the date command is in fair to good cond and everything works well. the calc as i said is near mint with the pen/stylus as well as the box. missing is the wallet card and original booklet altho' i got a copy of it. clean inside, works well, but the flick wrist feature is pretty much missing. works occasionally but mostly not. given the rest of the cond of it i am happy. . windup watch people do not have much use for the electronic stuff and i was surprised to find either there. peter

[bruce wegmann]

The NAWCC shows can produce some unexpected treasures. Best thing I ever found was an 18K Calculator, working 901 module, fair cosmetic condition...$3400. That's about 10% above the "melt" value of the watch, even if you don't include the value of the module [$300-400]. Total stranger walks up to my table, asks me if I'm "the LED guy", and pulls this chunk of gold out of his pocket. I spent the entire night disassembling and re-finishing it. The next day, when I showed it to the seller, he didn't believe it was the same watch...until he looked at the serial number. And a side note...if he hadn't found a buyer at the show, he had decided to let it go for scrap to a local refiner ["Too much money to tie up in something nobody wants", he told me]; so much for the idea that no one would melt a Pulsar to "recycle" the gold. Then there was the solid 14K Executive for melt value [$1250 at the time]; same scenario ["you actually buy these?"]...that gem came wrapped in a plastic sandwich bag. Oh, and a P3L that I bought by accident for the working module without recognizing the special combination of case and bracelet; hundred bucks. I figure the plus side on the calculator alone has paid my dues for the next 25 years... But, back to the Hamilton; I'd love to know the full story here...at least, somebody seems to be doing well in this economy...let's see if the buyer actually follows through.

[Led-Time]

I've been watching that one too... , but as long as the buyers happy thats all that matters in the end...

Whats is the NAWCC shows...

[clockace]

national association of watch and clock collectors. it is mainly a US organization altho there are international chapters. website is www.nawcc.org if you are interested. peter

[LEDluvr]

...missing is the wallet card and original booklet altho' i got a copy of it. clean inside, works well, but the flick wrist feature is pretty much missing. works occasionally but mostly not. given the rest of the cond of it i am happy.

You're making me green with envy clockace!

About the 'flick of the wrist' feature, my avatar has that feature and when I first bought it a few years back it only worked ocassionally.
But after wearing it and 'flicking it' on a regular basis it seemed to loosen up the mercury switch and it works great now. You may want to pry your synchronar off your wrist and wear that Pulsar for a few weeks straight and see what happens.