Reading these topics, it looks like minimum half a dozen forum members have done interesting research, bringing out new figures & facts that one should expect to come from the Omega History/Heritage team... but the latter are restrained by strategic commercial reasons I suppose ? 😁
Ok this is beautiful but really out of scope here 😜
I know it's 1872 and not a 1873, I've not got one either as the cheeky @Northernman bought it. As I too NEED this one.
BTW @kov thanks for your stunning work and to all others who have contributed thank you too. I am tempted to drift again but will stay on target.
Sadly until I get a 9655 I'll fear I can only add questions and will hold of further drift until I can provide physical examples.
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I apologize in advance for disrupting this great thread, but Ken G’s comment made me do it!
I have a 145.024 “Jedi” with a circular brushed case. I bought it knowing that the sunburst finish was correct, but I really liked the look of the circular. As Ken G mentions, the Flightmaster and MkIII were offered with both finishes, and were of similar chronological vintage (1970/71) as the 145.024. Additionally, the Seamaster 166.093 1000m diver also seems to have been supplied with either finish (also circa 1970).
At any rate, it’s interesting that Omega offered options on case finishing at all. I would still believe that my Jedi met up with a refinishing wheel at some point, but I’d now say that it’s at least historically representative of what was going on at the time.
Can anyone explain to me how this reference obtain the "Jedi" moniker?
Interesting. That's probably the first Omega I've seen where the hands have lume, but the dial hasn't.
Thoughts, anyone?
It's actually not uncommonly seen for an Omega dial to say T but has no lume on it. Majority of them are in pristine condition like this one.
But the lumed hands? Any photos of these?
Another 145.016 variation is what I am calling a Reverse Panda radial dial :
- Black dial with white sub-counters (R)
- Printed logo
- Radial sub counters
- Long tritium indexes
- Integrated tachymètre scale on a white background
- White hour and minute hands with a tritium track
- Orange chrono hand (18.20mm)
- Black sub counter hands
It seems this dial was also fitted on the 145.006 references with cal. 321 but I haven't seen any, yet. Does anybody have one?
--> First reference post updated accordingly.
I must say it's my preferred dial from the regular ones, too. Would love to find it with a 321 inside though 😀
