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路Hi everyone, I hope you are all fine and safe, despite the COVID situation.
I'm a new member here and hopefully will soon start my watch collection 馃榾. I've been doing some research on vintage Omegas and have found three contenders to be my first luxury piece. I would appreciate it very much if you could help me verifying their authenticity, as well as any other strangeness regarding the pieces.
I've already identified a few points of concern, which I'll highlight after each of the watches photos / descriptions.
They are all being selled as originals by the same person. Let's get to it.
#1 - Constellation 1
Concerns: the minute hand appears to be in bad shape. The "Automatic" writing looks too close to the "Omega" insert - this could represent that the dial was remade, I guess.
#2 - Constellation 2
Concerns: The caliber is the 565 (not chronometer) and I think it should be the 561. I've read that a few Constellations were made with the 565 caliber, but I'm not sure if this info is correct.
#3 - Geneve
Concerns: The plexiglass is slighty chipped between the 1 and 2 markers, but I'm fine with that. The plexi is also marked with the Omega logo right in the center (pic #2) and I haven't seen this on other watches - is this correct / makes sense? I compared it with other Geneves and the hands seems to be odd (most of the Geneve hands I found have 2 different colors for the luminous part). Maybe the hands were changed?
I'm tending to go for the Geneve, because of the green dial - I really liked it.
It would be awesome if you could assess the watches and let me know your thoughts / concerns.
Thank you all very much in advance!
I'm a new member here and hopefully will soon start my watch collection 馃榾. I've been doing some research on vintage Omegas and have found three contenders to be my first luxury piece. I would appreciate it very much if you could help me verifying their authenticity, as well as any other strangeness regarding the pieces.
I've already identified a few points of concern, which I'll highlight after each of the watches photos / descriptions.
They are all being selled as originals by the same person. Let's get to it.
#1 - Constellation 1
Concerns: the minute hand appears to be in bad shape. The "Automatic" writing looks too close to the "Omega" insert - this could represent that the dial was remade, I guess.
#2 - Constellation 2
Concerns: The caliber is the 565 (not chronometer) and I think it should be the 561. I've read that a few Constellations were made with the 565 caliber, but I'm not sure if this info is correct.
#3 - Geneve
Concerns: The plexiglass is slighty chipped between the 1 and 2 markers, but I'm fine with that. The plexi is also marked with the Omega logo right in the center (pic #2) and I haven't seen this on other watches - is this correct / makes sense? I compared it with other Geneves and the hands seems to be odd (most of the Geneve hands I found have 2 different colors for the luminous part). Maybe the hands were changed?
I'm tending to go for the Geneve, because of the green dial - I really liked it.
It would be awesome if you could assess the watches and let me know your thoughts / concerns.
Thank you all very much in advance!