[Ghoulish Delight]

So this year, my mom handed me a watch that belonged to my grandfather. It's a classy, but not very flashy, piece. I like it a lot. It's comfortable, it looks nice, it's self-winding, and it's in better shape than the watch I had been wearing. So it's become my daily-wear watch.

A conversation last night may prompt me to not wear it so casually. While playing pool, one of the guys in the league asked to look at it. "That's a nice watch, I'm a collector." He didn't really say much beyond that other than to brag about a watch or two in his collection, but it got my wheels turning.

I haven't pinned down exactly the identity, but I did find one site that has what is clearly the same watch on sale for €400 (~$580). That site says it's a 1977 model, haven't found corroboration on that. As a counterpoint, I found one on Ebay selling for ~$90, so perhaps that first one was inflated.

The things I do know are that it's a model line from Omega that's been in existence for a long time (at least the 50s), most of them seem to be worth something, and this particular one appears to be hard to find as those are the only two I've seen online of my specific watch among thousands of other examples of the Seamaster line.