Ebay, Omega and New projects

[NigelTufnel]

HI everyone.   I used to be a big fan of Omega until I got a 2nd generation Dynamic Chrono (1990s?) and a series of bad factory service.  Now that Ive collected all these expensive tweezers I feel like I might put them to further work.  How is the ebay market for us?  I see empty, nasty looking cases going for $1k or more and movements that have been predated for $1,700 ... should I give this up or is there a strategy.

Ty in advance

[GPrideaux]

You can also get plenty of cheap movements to work on from eBay, as long as you're prepare to work on something other than Omega.

[JohnR725]

On 9/13/2024 at 4:35 PM, NigelTufnel said:

I used to be a big fan of Omega until I got a 2nd generation Dynamic Chrono

always nice when describing a watch would be to give us a movement number. On a watch repair discussion group we tend to be movement oriented versus name oriented.

9 minutes ago, GPrideaux said:

You can also get plenty of cheap movements to work on from eBay, as long as you're prepare to work on something other than Omega.

yes the classic problem of starting watch repair was something that a newbie shouldn't start with. Because things like Rolex Omega and all sorts of other brands the parts are dreadfully expensive. So if you have an accident not the newbie would ever have an accident. After all if you look at the YouTube videos watch repair does look insanely easy so but just in case you did have an accident like on the mega it would be dreadfully expensive. Then just the availability of spare parts altogether especially was something expensive.

Then yes eBay is filled with all sorts of inexpensive watches to start with.

[CYCLOPS]

get some Bulova's, Wittnaur, Hamiltions etc. to start with, they are plentiful ....