Enicar Sherpa Graph Mk 1b "Jim Clark" (yes the real one) with dial damage for sale at Ebay

[JimJupiter]

Hey Folks,

I guess most of you allready have seen it. At ebay there is a Jim Clark for sale, starting price 9.500$ and serial# 409.324. I think the problem of this watch is obvious, namely the severe dial damage. Not sure if this is just water damage (see also the dark radium lume, if still original lume) or if there allready was an attemp for redialing it.

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[jbcollier]

What are the chances of finding a replacement dial? I would assume very, very low.

 

[JimJupiter]

There was a guy in Germany who bought a MKIV with an incorrect Grey-white dial, but thats the only occasion I have seen one in the last years.

 

[Joe_A]

Documented this one the moment I saw it yesterday. Nice to see Nico saved me the trouble of starting a similar themed thread. ;-)

I've no idea what caused what we are seeing.

If water or severe condensation infiltrated a Sherpa Graph, I'd expect to find rusty hands. Perhaps Enicar used a better quality rust resistant alloy steel for the early Graph hands and switched to lower quality, easier-to-oxidize steel for the hands by the time the Mark III was introduced? Just speculation without evidence.

Rusty hands are a fairly common development for the later Graphs.

The movement condition suggests that it was not ever wet.

A couple (5 or 6) of the slotted or minus-head screw heads on the lower part of the image suggest that the watch movement was disassembled by someone with shaky hands or who used the wrong sized screw drivers.

Could the watch have sat somewhere at an angle and in a place where liquid settled in two of the subdial 'pans' for an extended period of time, without leaking through and having settled on the inside case back . . . and with no visible damage to the movement?

I've seen photos of some other radium lumed watches with blackened luminous material but I have no idea how they got that way.

 

[Gopher]

How do you even place a value on this one? Original parts but very funky condition all the way around.

Does anyone else think the caseback is cracked on the edge right under the crown (see photo 7)? I have seen other Enicars with chunks out of the caseback edge, presumably from people cranking them too hard due to not understanding the bayonet case.

 

[JimJupiter]

One offer in the end. Looks like someone bought it for the starting price

 

[Gopher]

Wow! I never saw it going for that much, given the condition. Am I the only one shocked by this price?

 

[Stephanerunge]

Hi,
no you're not. I don't understand why the dial is so damage. And the value.....