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Topic: Antiques Roadshow (UK): ASTP Omega
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Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4455
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 03-06-2022 11:59 AM
   
BBC 1 tonight (6 March 2022) on Antiques Roadshow, something in the schedule about "a commemorative" Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) Omega. Nothing to do with me! 
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holcombeyates
Member Posts: 297
From: UK
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 03-06-2022 03:09 PM
I was blown away with the valuation of £80,000! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 48296
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-06-2022 08:16 PM
Here is the segment: |
Larry McGlynn
Member Posts: 1372
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-06-2022 08:34 PM
That is a 1975 limited edition Omega ASTP Speedmaster made for Italian distribution. Only 400 were made for a private Italian company. The movement is the 861 calibre. A very cool watch. One sold in 2008 for $28,000 USD at auction. Given how expensive vintage limited edition watches have become in last ten years, the valuation could be in the suggested range mentioned in the show. Note: I just watched the segment and the guy nailed the description. The owner did hit the jackpot. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4455
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 03-07-2022 02:47 AM
Another one for the collection Larry? The owner is keen to sell. |
Larry McGlynn
Member Posts: 1372
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 03-07-2022 11:14 AM
Rick, I already have an ASTP 35th Anniversary limited edition meteorite face Speedmaster and the box is signed by Stafford and Leonov. I don't need another, but the owner need not worry as there will be buyers lining up for that auction. |
spaceman
Member Posts: 1165
From: Walsall, West Midlands, UK
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 03-12-2022 10:40 AM
Nicely spotted Rick. I'm betting the guy doesn't really intend hiding the news from his two sisters, bit awkward when it made it out on to the BBC. What other collectable 'rockets' (groan) in price from £300-£80,000? 'It's out of this world' (second groan). |
Gordon Eliot Reade
Member Posts: 104
From: Palo Alto, Calif.
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 05-02-2022 10:22 PM
80,000 British Pounds equates to just over 100,000 US dollars. A year and a half ago Neil Armstrong's El Lago Texas house sold for $420,000. What would you rather have, four ASTP Speedmasters or the home Neil Armstrong lived in for all the years he was an astronaut? I know what I'd choose. |
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