1964 Omega Seamaster Help!!

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Well now I feel like an idiot "shouting" It's a fake!
My parents collected art back in 60’s and 70’s- they had started earning real money and had taste- and the art market was wide open back then. My father bought a lovely Marc Chagal signed, hand colored print during that period and it hung in our house for years- it has been appraised 3 times for insurance and has always been verified as original.
Flash forward, my parents are divorced, my mother gets the Chagal (they amicably split the art collection), and my stepfather (who hated my father) had an appraiser come in to assess their art collection for insurance- along with his questionable taste collection. The appraiser raises an eyebrow to the Chagal saying he had never seen “those specific colors” in a Chagal and questions it’s authenticity (this tool obviously didn’t account for the fact that it had hung in a Southern California home for 20 years- undoubted the colors has shifted from UV exposure).
My stepfather screams fake- it’s garbage, get it out of the house! It has no place in their collection. My mother, feeling rather crestfallen, offers me the Chagal- of course I grabbed it without hesitation.
It has been reappraised, it is real- and it’s mine.
 
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It has been reappraised, it is real- and it’s mine.

I'm still not convinced.
Could be redial or "service" replacement.
 
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The folk at MWR will give good advice on the likely value. Military watches are a market all of their own -- and one full of chancers and pitfalls -- but my guess is that if it has the markings on the back and if it all checks out then it might be worth a five figure sum (GBP £)

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So, I am no expert on the 300 dial variations, and the prior consensus on this thread is that this is a bad relume and not a factory service dial- but this popped up on eBay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/384214027692

From the description:
Auth. Omega Seamaster 300 Dial 14755 / 165.014, Looks to be a service dial from the 80s/90s, wonderful colour to the lume. A watchmakers estate find!

Is it possible that this is what Omega had in the 80’s/90’s to use as a service dial prior to the ones we know now as the “watchco” dials?

We have definitely had these on OF before and as far as I remember it is an old service dial.
 
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So, OP, has the case back markings or not ?

It might not be wise to show / state them at this stage, along with the movement s/n. Maybe I'm being over cautious but once it's out in the public domain it's open to all sorts of fakers, chancers, idiots and dealers . . . .
 
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I know this thread is a long time dead.... but save opening a new one as a newbie and looking a klutz...
I have two 165.024s. I have just bought another 552 to build up a third one out of spares I have in the shop. The lot after the 552 was the dial attached which I bought as an OEM service dial. I just think it's pretty - it was labelled as a 'star' dial. Wondered if anymore had been thought about this dial.As an aside, I particularly like the little '3oo' text... 👀- As this is gonna be a bastardised watch, it is one I'll keep for my own use.