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18K 166.032 with 1098 Bracelet and 752 Movement

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Hi,

I have recently bought a solid 18K yellow gold Seamaster 166.032 with a 752 movement, dial with onyx inlaid markers and an intriguing 1098 bracelet in solid 18K gold.

I can find no references at all of any other 1098 bracelets in gold, only in stainless or plated. Has anyone else ever come across one before?
 
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That bracelet is worthless. I'll take it off your hands for 100 bucks, just as a courtesy.

In all seriousness, it's a legit bracelet for the reference and looks stunning. With current gold prices and how hard they're to find, I can only imagine what they go for these days. Here's a thread where we discussed with @OneTwo about this bracelet.


Here's its sibling. A date only, chronometer 168.022 in 18k yellow gold.

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Super crisp! And love that it’s non luminous. Congrats. There was something like that on eBay months back.
 
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Thanks guys, think I have been fairly lucky to have found it. Good that the bracelet is genuine, I knew that it was just concerning when you can not find any other examples of it. I notice that the Omega logo on the clasp is different in how it is done on the Steel and the Plated bracelets. I guess most other examples of this bracelet have probably been worn out and melted over the years sadly.
 
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I notice that the Omega logo on the clasp is different in how it is done on the Steel and the Plated bracelets.
I haven't seen that style of clasp associated to the 1098 bracelet neither, in steel, plated, or 18k. There is variety and one can never take it for granted. It may as well be the original clasp, or replaced at one point. It wouldn't bother me either way.
 
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I haven't seen that style of clasp associated to the 1098 bracelet neither, in steel, plated, or 18k. There is variety and one can never take it for granted. It may as well be the original clasp, or replaced at one point. It wouldn't bother me either way.
Bracelet and clasp look good to me. This clasp seems to match those on the solid gold speedies from the 70s, which had 1116 bracelets (20mm version of the 1098).
 
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Hope these work.

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Jiminy Christmas that's an awesome example! Been away from the forum for a bit so this is a rad tread to come back to. I dig that it's a non-luminous example as well. Congrats @cerbfan !! Lovely find. One day I'll find my luck and an example will come my way haha.

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I notice that the Omega logo on the clasp is different in how it is done on the Steel and the Plated bracelets. I guess most other examples of this bracelet have probably been worn out and melted over the years sadly.
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I haven't seen that style of clasp associated to the 1098 bracelet neither, in steel, plated, or 18k. There is variety and one can never take it for granted. It may as well be the original clasp, or replaced at one point. It wouldn't bother me either way.
Bracelet looks like other examples I've come across. Here's the same bracelet and end link combo, albeit a polished clasp and with the reference stamped on the bracelet instead of 1098, as well as another in this article with the same clasp. It's been a while since I read about them but IRRC, the clasp like that was akin to the "Deluxe" offerings as well as some of the solid gold Speedmasters. There are a bunch of other solid gold examples listed in this post if you're curious to see more.


Out of curiosity would you be willing to share the buying price for the watch with the bracelet?

Not trying to be crass by asking but since it's quite uncommon to find them offered on bracelet, and since my beard may go completely grey before I find an example for myself, I was wondering to have an idea of how much I'll be out when I find one. LOL 😅 Feel free to PM if that would be more comfortable.
 
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That is a really unusual combination, I've never seen a full 18K gold case and bracelet with the non-chronometer dial and movement, the "Golden Seamaster" that @MSNWatch was an early fan of is always the chronometer variant, that watch looks beautiful though, enjoy it mate!
 
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Jiminy Christmas that's an awesome example! Been away from the forum for a bit so this is a rad tread to come back to. I dig that it's a non-luminous example as well. Congrats @cerbfan !! Lovely find. One day I'll find my luck and an example will come my way haha.



Bracelet looks like other examples I've come across. Here's the same bracelet and end link combo, albeit a polished clasp and with the reference stamped on the bracelet instead of 1098, as well as another in this article with the same clasp. It's been a while since I read about them but IRRC, the clasp like that was akin to the "Deluxe" offerings as well as some of the solid gold Speedmasters. There are a bunch of other solid gold examples listed in this post if you're curious to see more.


Out of curiosity would you be willing to share the buying price for the watch with the bracelet?

Not trying to be crass by asking but since it's quite uncommon to find them offered on bracelet, and since my beard may go completely grey before I find an example for myself, I was wondering to have an idea of how much I'll be out when I find one. LOL 😅 Feel free to PM if that would be more comfortable.
Apologies for the slow reply but all that information is fantastic as is the linked article, seems that it is a very rare watch indeed in yellow gold and with that bracelet and the non chronometer movement.

I've actually just got the watch back from service and will now be shortly putting it up for sale, I'm a watch dealer so as much as I'd love to just keep it I find I want to keep to many watches and its not really possible.

The weight was asked earlier and it is 127g so with the price of gold as it is and assuming 15g for the movement there is approx, £9250 in gold value alone.

Can anyone give any advice on a sensible price? I see that white gold one sold for the equivalent of £10,400 all the way back in 2007 so wonder if I would actually be better to put this to auction.
 
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That’s an amazing example and awesome bracelet. Hard to find any .750 bracelets.
 
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Can anyone give any advice on a sensible price? I see that white gold one sold for the equivalent of £10,400 all the way back in 2007 so wonder if I would actually be better to put this to auction.
You're probably referring to the Omegamania auction. The white gold version is a unicorn as far as I'm concerned. Impossible to find, so price would scale accordingly.

Although one of my personal favorite Omega references, these aren't terribly popular. It will need to sit for a while to find the right collector, especially in this economy.

For reference, my 168.022 I showed above is 30 grams of 18k, worth ~€2800 today. Would someone be willing to pay like €3500 for that? Not sure.
 
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This is a case where unless you find an extremely keen buyer, I just don’t see it selling for above gold weight.

It’s a truly stunning watch, I’d love to have it. But would I pay over 10k? No way.

Gold has just increased above the collector value of many watches at this point.

White gold is different imo due to extreme rarity across many 60’s Omegas
 
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This is a case where unless you find an extremely keen buyer, I just don’t see it selling for above gold weight.

It’s a truly stunning watch, I’d love to have it. But would I pay over 10k? No way.

Gold has just increased above the collector value of many watches at this point.

White gold is different imo due to extreme rarity across many 60’s Omegas
I know, its such a shame as so many amazing watches like this will be lost and melted, its already happening throughout the trade constantly. I would hate to see this melted, if anyone would like to discuss buying it at not much above the scrap value of the watch then please message as I'd rather it went to someone who appreciated it then be lost.
 
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The price of gold is causing major problems for anything other than high-end brands. Very few people would pay over gold weight for an Omega like this, it's just too big a risk because the value is so tied to the spot price. Even Day-Dates are running up against this issue.

You are going to have to find the rare buyer who just has to have it.
 
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Where are you based and how much are you after for it please?
 
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