A nice 1680 Set, if you got the money

[Gorilladame]

Hi!

Found this a couple of days ago and want to share:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250595421945&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Don

[alligoat]

It looks like some great 'parts'. Someone's going to buy it and build a great franken..., and then probably try to sell it as gen...

The trick would be finding a good red sub dial (MKI or MKII) and an older non-hacking 1570 movement.

Old tritium hands and a silver DW would complete the package.

[vlydog]

If someone here snaps this up I really need the crystal retaining ring.

[southcoast68]

Whats up with these end links?? Me thinks they were switched out at some point, or the bracelet is not gen. Nice case set though.

Cheers

[panerai153]

Only problem here is the cost. by the time you add a serviced 1570, genuine dial,hands, etc. i would bet you are looking at close to 6k in a franken. For that price you can pick up a genuine 1680, certainly not a Red dial, but a pretty good white.I just looked on the vintage Rolex market saw a 2 million serial in servicable cond for 4900 USD and a really nice recently serviced one with all the papers, punched chrono cert. and boxes for 6800USD. When you jump to the Red Subs, the price at least doubles, so if one were to put together a Red dialed watch from this one, they could double their money.

I'm not sure you would call this a Franken, as every part on the watch is genuine Rolex. Wouldn't be much different than sending your old beat up 1680 to a RSC and get it back with a new dial, hands, bezel/insert crown and tube. Or the Omega SM300's Watchco in Australia builds, using genuine NOS parts.

Once this was done, if all the parts were Rolex, I suppose you could send it to a RSC and have it serviced, if you could find one that still services older watches.