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Antique Store Find! Help needed...
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ulackfocus
·That looks like a late 60's or early 70's Genève Dynamic reference 166.0039. They usually came with an automatic caliber 565 inside, but the word AUTOMATIC would be under OMEGA nearly all the time. This leads me to believe you have a manual wind series 600 under the hood. Later models with automatics (post 1972) used the 101x series calibers - not as good as the 56x series but still decent. If you paid $5 for that you could get a tidy profit - they sell for $200 to $500 depending on condition and whether or not they've been serviced (which your obviously hasn't been recently). Nice find!
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFLooks in decent shape, as does the strap. If I recall correctly there was some weird interchange method with those where the head slips out of the middle of the strap (like the strap is one piece), and then you could mount a stainless steel bracelet in a similar way. Very unusual but I really like them.
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Davey Brown
·That looks like a late 60's or early 70's Genève Dynamic reference 166.0039. They usually came with an automatic caliber 565 inside, but the word AUTOMATIC would be under OMEGA nearly all the time. This leads me to believe you have a manual wind series 600 under the hood. Later models with automatics (post 1972) used the 101x series calibers - not as good as the 56x series but still decent. If you paid $5 for that you could get a tidy profit - they sell for $200 to $500 depending on condition and whether or not they've been serviced (which your obviously hasn't been recently). Nice find!
Really Good Info!! Excited on the find...Thanks for taking the time to respond! Any recommendations on where I might find a potential buyer for a watch like this??
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFReally Good Info!! Excited on the find...Thanks for taking the time to respond! Any recommendations on where I might find a potential buyer for a watch like this??
In most cases eBay is a terrible place to sell an Omega but this is the exception, just photograph it well, be honest in your condition statement and watch it sell.
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Davey Brown
·Thank you much for the help and information!!!
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ACC1965
·Did you end up selling the watch? If so, what did you get?
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Scarecrow Boat
·They have been oddly resurrecting a number of really old threads…
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Gav1967
··Tend not to fret too much
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Peemacgee
··Purrrr-veyor of luxury cat box loungersThey have been oddly resurrecting a number of really old threads…
I think some credit should be given for finding all these 13 year old threads to reply to....😒
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