Savage spent what he calls “a significant” but not life-changing amount on the watch and proudly showed it off to fellow collectors—until one of them burst his bubble. “He was like, ‘Oh, that watch has been redialed.’ He could just tell from the photo. And I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I didn’t even know what ‘redialed’ meant. He goes, ‘Well, look.’ And then once it’s pointed out to you, you can’t unsee it. You look at it through a loupe and you see that the printing is off, and the serif on the ‘x’ isn’t straight, and the hash marks aren’t evenly spaced… More here.

Savage is using his passion to create a service that is sorely needed. Mechanical watches have 100’s of parts and if you are buying an expensive watch in the pre-owned market it is almost impossible to verify those parts. It’s gets even harder with vintage offerings. Personally, I would never buy an expensive vintage watch unless there were very specific reasons why I knew it was genuine.

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