My contestant and personal favorite :-d
Greetings
Phil
Greetings
Phil
I see this dial, case and bezel as genuine, Raketa aka Peterhoff aka Cornavin quartz. The strap is a soviet leatherette bund, with a cheesy vignetted picture of Gagarin.Perdendosi said:I don't know if this is a franken or not, but the addition of the crazy military bezel and... what IS that band.. makes the "Big Zero" just look sad.
(By the way, whose picture is that on the cuff strap?)
MENS Soviet Raketa / Paketa Made in CCCP Watch | eBay
Good rant!I've been getting rather perturbed at the audacity of certain sellers lately.
Take for instance this "find":
WOSTOK KOMANDIRSKIE ZAKAZ MO USSR SOVIET MECHANICAL WATCH Perfect USSR Au
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At a glance one might be inclined to think that this is a rare NOS in the box Komandirskie,... but no,... it's just another crafty fake. Check out the crown stem visible between the dial edge and the case. The case even shows visible signs of use. No "PERFECT USSR" here! Some folks call this a franken,... but it's just an out and out fake as the seller is clearly trying to dupe you. This would be robbery at the listed price of $99 !!! I glad there are no bidders.(
This seller is so cheap that i almost don't mind that some of the stuff he/she has is junk. The photos are poor and you really can't see what condition the watches are in. Then again, most of the offerings are in the $15-20 range. I have acquired a few watches from this seller. some of them were tattier than I htought they would be, but some quite a bit better. At this pricepoint I am really not that bothered, for this outlay I can live with having to be the expert. Now the other sellers like cherry_ua are much trickier. They will shamefully ask the same kind of $$ for a frankenized watch that a respected seller like ruslan of romantic_time or roman of sovieterawatch or sovietrarities ask for an original.frankenization brought to you this time by eBay seller sulfejo .... another seller joins my list of eBayers to be wary of
I love roman/sovieterawatch. Just got 5 watches off his site the other week.//roman of sovieterawatch//
Since his name's been mentioned, I can say that I have probably bought over a hundred watches, and have never had cause to complain. His prices are creeping up, but then the market is going up and he's still very reasonable.
Paul
This gap serves to compensate the differential expansion coefficients of watch case and dial at 2500 degrees Centigrades.mysterian said:I am a little puzzled. I too am very fond of the seller sovieterawatch and consider him to be selling quality goods.
But this watch with the large gap between the dial and case just cannot be the way this watch was intended to be. I'm certain the original designer(s) would be upset at this.
Note to eBay sellers. Make sure there's at least one good watch for sale. Otherwise watchuseek forumers will go on an "outing" spree. ;-)When I'm not able to find anything worth buying, I do love a good game of "Find the Franken" !...