How Much Does Service Dial Decrease Value

Consequence of Omega service parts on value

I'm curious what more experienced forum members/collectors think nigh the effect that Omega service parts have on the value of a vintage anile watch. For instance, what's an appropriate percentage reduction if a stepped tritium dial has been replaced with a superluminova service dial? Same question for replacement easily, bezel, crystal, etc. I know that I'g speaking in generalities, just I may want to eventually kickoff a collection and I'm wondering if an otherwise vintage watch with any service parts is a no get birthday or if some parts (the punch, eg) make more of a difference than others. Cheers in advance for your thoughts.

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STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and sentry collector Jul five, 2019

Dial and Bezel are the worst thing for a vintage Speedmaster to be replaced.
A punch can mean half the cost if a stepped dial is a service dial.
A DON bezel can be $5K difference
Hands are getting harder to find but less than to a higher place

Crystal is not that much of a outcome

Always try to over pay for a great example than under pay for a watch with bug.

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Thanks. Pretty much equally I thought.
For me, coming from the perspective that if I'm buying a vintage omega it's probably a speedy, it all depends on how much I know I'm going to need to spend to brand the watch right.
Crystal: Negligible difference

Crown/Pushers: Small difference. For example I only recently bought an ed white with incorrect pushers and crown. I know going in that the right crown is going to price me ~$500 and the correct curt pushers are going to cost me ~$600 for a ready, then I factored that in when I bought it. When it's washed the watch will be correct again and no one really cares about those parts being replaced.

Bezel: Depends entirely on the watch. If information technology's a speedy that should take a DON, that'southward a big difference. Up to half the value of the watch if we're talking a 145.012. If it's a speedy from a few years later that needs a DN90, not and then much. Either way, as long as it's priced in it's not a dealbreaker for me. Speedy bezels are expensive, but not exactly difficult to find.

Hands: Now we're into the territory where I probably won't purchase the watch. Because now not just do I take to find correct hands but I besides take to bargain with them not matching the dial. So in addition to the cost of the hands I'1000 also looking at another couple hundred to have them relumed to lucifer the dial, so whenever I sell the lookout there is going to be the caveat that the hands are redone. So at that point information technology's impossible to make the watch right. Not that I personally have a huge issue with relumed hands, only unless the watch is a steal I'd rather concur out for an example without that event.

Dial: Unless I had an original dial lined upwards I wouldn't touch it.
STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Jul 5, 2019

I wouldn't be eventually starting a collection, I would be jumping on the equus caballus at present every bit it'southward been running wild for a few years.
I was pIcking up DONs when they were expensive at $500 years ago.
To add to this, prices are a niggling soft right now compared to how they've been for the past picayune bit. 145.012s are trading for below parts value at the moment. If y'all're thinking of getting on the train, it may be a practiced time to practise it.

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Agreed, and imho value depreciation is less if pushers or winding crown is changed. Although one would prefer an original flat foot crown on a speedy the gasket dries and if yous plan to employ information technology often thats a run a risk I would prefer not to take.
Every thread tin be improved with a photo so my speedy for reference , service pushers cylinders with right wide-brusque pushers for the CB and a modern replacement crown.

As I understand water usually seeps through the pushers and or the crown so that's why I preferred that they were serviced
STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and spotter collector Jul 5, 2019

oddly this is i of my favourite Speedmasters
@Barking mad made his own LE
KAP Jul 6, 2019

Across the Speedmaster, are there like depressed values from the diverse service replacements parts of wearing apparel watches?
The same general principles utilise to all watches really. Replacement parts will ever impact value, proportionate to the ease/cost of replacing those parts with correct vintage parts. Your dial is always going to represent a larger proportion of the value of the overall lookout than its crown or pushers. And parts that are particularly hard to source/replace are going to accept a greater bear on on value if they're missing.
Which is why when you're researching a new vintage buy or considering a item reference, it's e'er a good thought to acquaint yourself with parts costs/rarity for its components. That manner you lot're able to make up one's mind whether or not a watch that has bug is worth your time/is discounted appropriately.