1. Watch is listed as “not running”. My understanding is that The Real Real does use some kind of an authentication service. I looked at descriptions on other vintage watches (esp. Rolex, they have a lot of them), and they use terms like “running to specifications”, etc. So there is something wrong here. What it is, I haven’t a clue.
2. Dial is probably original, although there seems to be some damage to the minutes track between 10 and 11.
3. Crown is not correct, yellow rather than rose gold. Also too new. Good luck finding a replacement.
4. Case is polished. Not terrible. The engraving is a big plus.
5. I don’t think this model came with leaf hands. 99.9% seem to have solid gold dauphin hands. I was able to find only one other example with leaf hands.
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https://www.timeline.watch/watch/1948-omega-centenary-ref-2499-2500/
The pattern of dial damage looks very similar. This could very well be the same watch as The Real Real.
Summary, I concluded that it was too much work for me to make this one right.
If you can do the repair work yourself and can get the gold hands and crown (both of which I think are solid 18K on this model), this could be a bargain.
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