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Henry

Post subject: Is this an authentic Navitimer 806?

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:30 am

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Hi,

Can you advise is this the real deal? Thanks a million!

I am a rookie, but I had fell in love with this watch, and would like to owe one for life someday:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :middle:us

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Roffensian

Post subject: Re: Is this an authentic Navitimer 806?

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:47 am

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Henry wrote:

Hi,

Can you advise is this the real deal? Thanks a million!

I am a rookie, but I had fell in love with this watch, and would like to owe one for life someday:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :middle:us

It's an early 1962 806 according to the serial number, late for a rice bezel black on black, but not impossible. The 178 looks fine, again has WOG which suggests early.

Minute totaliser is wrong, other hands look good.

In summary - with the exception of the one subdial hand it looks good to me - my only concern would be that there are a number of indicators that it may be earlier than 1962, which raises the question about whether the caseback is right. There's nothing definitive that I can point to to say that it's not a 1962 - it's just unusual to see a black on black, rice bezel, WOG movement from 1962 - but it is possible.

Price is going to head considerably further north on this one because it's a nice example.

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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:51 am

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I was watching this one too... but doubt I'll bid as I've been spending too much on other stuff lately

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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:23 pm

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Mario, you should start spending your money on the actual watches instead of the PR material around them... :oops:

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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:19 pm

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aleister wrote:

Mario, you should start spending your money on the actual watches instead of the PR material around them... :oops:

I have been. I have the white dial SA on now. Have the LE SA on the way, and have ordered the black dial SA which is back-ordered. So yeah... 3 in 1 month (all since July 25th).

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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:26 pm

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Ok, ok, I'll take back my comment...

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