Conclusion
This is being offered at $12,000. My Chart puts a price of $11,000 for an excellent head, and this comes with a bracelet that cannot be confirmed but it does have the 516 end links, if it was a 1039 then if the watch were Excellent then it fits…is it?
Well no, its not. When asking such a high price, we become obsessed with minor details that would not really bother us if the watch was offered for a realistic price, which in my opinion is $5,000 to $6,000.
This watch is to me a Good. It comes with a bracelet, which assuming it is a 1039 pushes the price up. The marks on the dial/crystal need to be verified, and the bezel condition taken into account.
So this is how I work:
Good = 4,000
Adding in for barcelet and endlinks – $1500 – $1,800
Subtracting for poor bezel -$300
Gives an Estimate of Value of $5200 to $5500.
Then comes the intuitive bit – to me I think it might be worth a bit more – so I value it in my head at $5000 to 6000. Then I sit back and feel how my heart reacts to the watch and add or subtract accordingly.
I am just one person, with an idea. Others will have different ideas, clearly the seller does. That is the fun of all this, we can all have our own ideas.