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The Crown of Bienne: A Collector's Brutal Guide to Vintage & Modern Rolex - References, Serials, Dials, Frankenwatches and the Art of Never Getting Ch
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Series: Horological Atlas
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ISBN13: 9798190453706
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Most people who lose money on a vintage Rolex do not buy a fake. They buy a real watch that is not what they were told it was.
A replaced dial. A polished case with its geometry gone. A movement from a different reference. A bezel insert made last year. Every one of those watches passes as genuine at a glance, and every one of them costs its owner thousands the day they try to sell it.
A replaced dial. A polished case with its geometry gone. A movement from a different reference. A bezel insert made last year. Every one of those watches passes as genuine at a glance, and every one of them costs its owner thousands the day they try to sell it.
This book is the method for telling the difference - written by a collector who paid for the lesson himself.
Across the full modern catalogue and the vintage references that built it: Submariner, GMT-Master, Daytona, Explorer, Datejust, Day-Date, Sea-Dweller and Deepsea. Reference by reference, serial by serial, dial by dial.
Inside:
For the collector who has passed the beginner stage and intends to spend serious money - and would rather spend an hour with a loupe first.
Across the full modern catalogue and the vintage references that built it: Submariner, GMT-Master, Daytona, Explorer, Datejust, Day-Date, Sea-Dweller and Deepsea. Reference by reference, serial by serial, dial by dial.
Inside:
- A sixty-minute inspection protocol, worked through zone by zone - dial, case, bracelet, movement, paperwork, seller
- How to read a serial number and place a watch in its production window, and why the serial alone never dates a watch
- Dial forensics: printing edges, font weight, lume ageing, the difference between an original, a service dial and a redial
- What polishing actually costs - measured in geometry, in money, and in what cannot be undone
- The Triplock and Twinlock crown systems, and why an unscrewed crown makes every other seal irrelevant
- Anatomy of a frankenwatch: which components get swapped, in what order, and how the seams show
- Bracelet codes, clasp stamps, stretch measurement and end-link fitment
- The 3135 and 3235 calibre families, service intervals and what a real service record looks like
- The Ten Commandments - the rules that survive every deal, in reference tables you can work from
- An eight-gate purchase sequence, with the point at which you walk away
For the collector who has passed the beginner stage and intends to spend serious money - and would rather spend an hour with a loupe first.
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