Buying vintage from Ebay

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I'm looking into purchasing my Dad a birth year watch for his 60th birthday in a few months, nothing stupidly expensive but between £500-1000 max.

So I've seen a few Omega watches on Ebay that I think my dad would like, however have any of you experienced purchasing vintage from Ebay? It appears unsurprisingly that at this age a lot of the watches will not have papers of authentication or anything, which means there is no guarantee that its going to be a 1955, but would it be easy to see fake watches at this age?

I know nothing about watches, hence asking here, but Ebay does seem to be much better value then a specialist vintage store. I'm going to try to learn more about the watches myself but any advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks

[xcentric]

if you're after an omega, go to omegaforums.net and look there - good sellers like kringkily will get you a decent deal. eBay has ok priced watches, but there is a lot of tat, and some fakes, and it's hard telling one from the other.