Hello everyone,
thank you for this thread. A huge source of valuable information in the age of today’s online noise.
I’m attaching a few pictures of mine Omega 18K (750)16mm buckle. It’s quite polished, but it stil holds up. Manufacturer: AW, total weight: ~3g.
Hi buckle-buddies, here's one for you.
I have skimmed through its hefty 62 pages, but apologies in advance if this has cropped up already.
I'm looking to source a gold-plated buckle from c.1970 (and a SS one from the late 60s, as it goes) and I stumbled across the attached.
To my untrained eye it seems to fit the period and doesn't look like a knock-off. But it lacks any markings on the underside.
Why would a counterfeiter not attempt to fake everything an original would have?
Or is it maybe a variant specific to a regional manufacturer? (I'm in the UK.)
Secondly, what do we thing about gold replating? A big no-no, even if the plating's worn through? Or OK to bring it back to life?
Thanks for thoughts.
Hey, I just saw this, and these are what I believe to be German market buckles - I bought quite a bit of them recently from Germany. Then researched and came to this conclusion
You can stumble onto them easily if you look for 8mm 10mm buckles from Germany, since they are aged and appear with other authentic parts I didn't question their authenticity - there are 2 styles for the logo - you can't find larger ones on eBay
In 14mm and 16mm they are rare in the wild, out of 100 buckles in my collection, I only had 1 of them prior to this big find. Second reason why I believe they were market specific buckles
Their middle pins have a characteristic ridge in the middle, it almost looks like a facet but its from manufacturing
Another example is Japan, where they marked their local market buckles with "STAINLESS STEEL" / "GOLD PLATED" only
