Any chance this constellation is legit?

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Hi all

I'm on the lookout for a gold pie pan Constellation with arrowhead indices. This guy came up. To me it sounds a bit too good to be true, but I also can't find anything that I know to be wrong with it (unless the crown is supposed to have more edges... and the box must be new) Described as follows:

Omega Constellation Arrowhead Pie Pan cal watch. 501 gorgeous gold-steel. The undecided are Arrowhead, those arrow shapes are rarer and these watches on the net are very expensive. Searching for. The case has a solid gold bezel, handles plated with thick gold, gold leaf, not blown. Gold cap logo. The rest is steel. Original crown. The original bracelet that costs about 400 euros separately. Omega mechanism cal. 501 running per second, very good. Diam. 35 mm without measuring the crown. It is sold in the original Omega box, the one in the pictures.

What do you think?

Thanks!

Jonathan
 
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Did you notice that the pictures are of two different watches? Look at the crown in the movement photo then in the other photos. Not to mention that hexagonal crown is hideous and not original. The dial looks like someone tried to clean it, look at the scratches between the markers. There's a lot a I don't like about this watch, and the seller comes across as dishonest. I'd avoid it like the plauge.
 
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The movement picture is of a 14393, I'd guess, with a cal 561 date movement.

Now, to the watch: Dial isn't in a particularly nice state, but I guess that's yours to decide. The bracelet doesn't belong on the watch and is from a much later period. 400$? More like 100$, I'd guess. The crown is funny, actually, looks like it's from a Seamaster XVI Olympics, the special edition made for the games in Melbourne in 1956. That'd also explain why it's rose gold, not yellow gold, and thus doesnt match the watch. Case is polished, but we've certainly seen worse. Oh, and the "box" is merely a regular Omega service pouch, used until quite recently, which doesn't really carry any value.

I’m also slightly concerned about him stating it’s a cal 501. While COSC-501s can be correct for 2852s, I believe pie pan dials in them always came with 505s. Not a 100% sure on that issue though.

Judging from all the fluff in the seller's description, I'd guess this isn't exactly a bargain, but do you want to let us know how much he's asking?
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In addition to what's already been said, the minute markers look a bit wonky and uneven. So it may have been touched up?
 
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Well the "chronometre" is usually pre 16 million serial and "chronometer" is usually post 16 million. Generally..
The use of "Chronometre" usually faded out around 1958-1959 and the movement here is from 1961.

The dial doesn't look redailed to me but they may have added the hour markers later, they seem a little bit off at some points. So I guess that could be counted as a redial.

Like above the Crown and bracelet.

Edges are rounded on the case so has been polished but doesn't look too bad.
 
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Thanks all - really helpful. Sounds a bit too suspicious for me - particularly the point about the different crowns.

Asking price was about £1800.