Seiko 7A38 - by the numbers

In his most recent re-listing, earlier this afternoon, deluded Italian eBay seller giusponti-13 increased the Buy-it-Now price of this much re-listed Puma Y19904-50 from €350 to €370 Euros. :roll: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/318163005442 Puma-Y19904-50-Gold-WhiteFace-eBay-April2026-Re-Listing.jpg

Time to give this thread a belated bump, methinks. ;) Discounting the two NOS examples I bought in January 2021 for $250 apiece (see my first post), the Jaz N8's are still among the cheapest non-Seiko 7A38's I've ever bought. Checking back through my records, I paid various US eBay sellers as little...

Yesterday afternoon, profiteering US eBay re-seller flobaca listed yet another 7A38-7069 in no better than average worn condition. As usual, it's a 7-day auction, this time with an opening bid price of $275 and the option to make an offer. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358410324665 7A38-7069-Stainless+...

Another peak bot swarm occurred earlier this morning, while I was still in bed asleep. Now up to 2147.

That surprisingly successful sale appears to have provided inspiration to a would-be plagiarist. This similar-looking (but frankly rather poorly executed) 7A38 Franken was listed on eBay by a greedy dishonest German seller yesterday evening. It's a 5-day auction with a laughable opening bid price of...

Dion. The Chrono24 link you posted is the same as in my quote from 2 ½ years ago. It's the same seller; same listing, with a different set of photos and a further reduced price. I don't need to prove that it's fitted with a non-original bracelet. I already have. Please re-read the last paragraph of ...

If you're following flobaca 's eBay activities, you'll no doubt have noticed that he never includes the full model number in either titles or descriptions of his listings. Just '7A38'. There's a reason for this. He's obviously (re)using a template, which he tweaks slightly for each listing. It also...

It's been over a year since I last saw an Indianapolis 500 logo'd Orient J39701-70 advertised for sale - anywhere. Then yesterday evening one popped up on eBay, listed by an opportunist Spanish seller, who's asking a ridiculous €420 Euros as a Buy-it-Now. He's already sending out unsolicited offers ...

In the early hours of this morning, the bots finally broke through the 2000 barrier with a new all-time high of 2057 !!

Seems I missed another bot swarm peak activity yesterday afternoon - it's now up to 1981 !

Of course flobaca already had another one ready and prepared - 'waiting in the wings', so to speak. Yesterday evening he listed yet another 7A38-702H in average worn condition. As usual it's a 7-day auction listing, but this time with an unmolested bezel and a lower more tempting (notice I didn't sa...

Just found another Loris Azzaro D900, with what looks like the dark blue dial, that's been listed on LeBonCoin, as simply Montre femme AZZARO , since 10th December 2024, asking an equally ridiculous €240 Euros !! :o https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/montres_bijoux/2900852330 LorisAzzaro-D900-Ladies-Stainl...

Before anybody else kindly points it out, yes, I'm already aware that there's another Loris Azzaro D900 listed on eBay. ;) It has a black dial and is fitted with a non-original stainless bracelet. The Egyptian seller first listed it on 27th December 2024, originally asking $200 as a Buy-it-Now. He's...

As I wrote at the bottom of that first WRUW post .... Incidentally, I'm still looking for a blue dialed version of the H900, which I'm certain must exist, because it was Loris Azzaro's favourite colour . so if you ever see one offered for sale, please let me know. So naturally I still have an eBay s...

Other than two WRUW thread posts, here and here , in 2021 and 2022, I've hardly mentioned the Loris Azzaro re-branded 7A38's on this forum. However, I did write about them, in quite some detail, in a thread on the old archived forum: Yema (C.G.H.) N7's and N8's rebranded as 'Fashion Watches' (skip p...

In the early hours of this morning, greedy profiteering US eBay re-seller rtm127 (a.k.a. Ryan Marucheau of 'Watch and Jewelry Exchange') listed another ridiculously over-priced JDM 7A38, which naturally came from his usual source, Yahoo Japan auctions. This time it's an average condition titanium 7...

Having re-listed them countless times (since September and October last year), flobaca 's two 7A38-702H's eventually sold this afternoon for best offers; considerably less than the laughable $525 and $550 he was originally asking for them. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/227239570200 and https://www.ebay...

Around the same time, he also listed another Cartier Ferrari Formula Cal. 531 which he'd sourced from Yahoo Japan auctions. This one's a stainless and gold two-tone with a red dial (model F.610.48.01), for which he's asking a typically greedy thousand dollars. But, in reality, it's not the best of e...

PS - Incidentally, rtm127 now has three 7A38-6030's listed on eBay - all ex-Yahoo Japan and all greedily over-priced. At the risk of repeating myself .... In the early hours of this morning, greedy profiteering US eBay re-seller Ryan Marucheau, a.k.a. Watch and Jewelry Exchange listed another well-...

It should not be polished. The original finish is matt anodized silver. You could try re-spraying it with an aerosol paint.