I visited a watch fair recently and was fortunate enough to find a couple of interesting pieces, although not perfect I thought this one worthy of a small post as it is a not too often seen variant.
What we have is a 1952 18kt rose gold French cased Constellation 2648 with a cal 354 and Fab Suisse on the patinated dial.
I do have a soft spot for these Fab Suisse Omega watches, from a time when France was insisting on this addition to the dial on watches imported into the country.
I believe there were restrictions on, or perhaps heavy taxation of, imported precious metal watch cases during this 50´s-70´s period which resulted in the movements and dials being shipped out from Switzerland and then cased up in France in a French produced Omega precious metal case.
Notable is the non use of the usual Omega reference number, but an additional case serial number, the use of the old Omega logo on the inside of the case back and the French eagles head hallmark on the outside of the case.
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