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These days, eBay is virtually flooded with an unusually high number of bare movements, frequently high grade movements at that.

It seems that when the economy is down, and gold prices high, folks rush out to melt down gold watch cases.  An irreplaceable antique it destroyed forever for a couple hundred dollars...   This happened during the last spike in gold prices a few decades ago as well.

It's easy to understand, when the need is great, but when it's just a response to frantic gold-buyers' ad on TV, I hope the caretakers of these items would think twice about wiping a watch case off the face of the earth for the costs of couple months cable bill.  These things are not made anymore folks.  When they're gone, they're gone.