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·I read with some interest the description of this 2998-1 which just sold at the Phillips Geneva auction for CHF 119,700 (see first photo below). The write-up included this nugget:
"Adding even more excitement to this piece is that the Omega archives reveal that the present watch was part of a batch delivered to “Netherlands Antilles”. Actually, two other examples of this batch with very close movement numbers have appeared on the market in recent years."
The reason this caught my eye is that my own 2998-2 (bottom photo) was also delivered to the Netherlands Antilles. My watch also has a brown tropical dial -- possibly a perk shared among these watches from spending time in the Caribbean sun and humidity. Who knows. (It also has a much more banged-up base 1000 bezel.)
As it was delivered in December 1960 vs. January 1960 for the Phillips piece, my watch would not qualify for one of the batch "with very close movement numbers" referred to by Phillips. (My piece is a 17,76X,XXX serial number vs. 17,30X,XXX for the Phillips watch.) Which suggests that 2998s were being shipped to the Netherlands Antilles beyond the narrow window around the time when the Phillips piece arrived.
So I am wondering: does anyone else here have 2998s delivered to the Netherlands Antilles? And does anyone know why these watches ended up there?
"Adding even more excitement to this piece is that the Omega archives reveal that the present watch was part of a batch delivered to “Netherlands Antilles”. Actually, two other examples of this batch with very close movement numbers have appeared on the market in recent years."
The reason this caught my eye is that my own 2998-2 (bottom photo) was also delivered to the Netherlands Antilles. My watch also has a brown tropical dial -- possibly a perk shared among these watches from spending time in the Caribbean sun and humidity. Who knows. (It also has a much more banged-up base 1000 bezel.)
As it was delivered in December 1960 vs. January 1960 for the Phillips piece, my watch would not qualify for one of the batch "with very close movement numbers" referred to by Phillips. (My piece is a 17,76X,XXX serial number vs. 17,30X,XXX for the Phillips watch.) Which suggests that 2998s were being shipped to the Netherlands Antilles beyond the narrow window around the time when the Phillips piece arrived.
So I am wondering: does anyone else here have 2998s delivered to the Netherlands Antilles? And does anyone know why these watches ended up there?
