Hi All,

I have been hunting a black waffle constellation with arrowheads for as long as I've been collecting Omega, but it always has eluded me. I had found 2 previously, but both were redialed and I had mostly given up searching.

Anyways, a bit over a month ago, I ran into this one on eBay. It was in rough condition. Water damage in the movement, terribly scratched glass, white residue bubbling to the dial, on a terrible bracelet. I wasn't sure if it was fixable, but this being a bit of a white whale for me I took a chance.

Here are the auction photos:



Had to stay up to 2am to watch the end of the auction. After it was over started the waiting game. The seller wouldn't ship the watch to me in Hong Kong though the listing said international shipping accepted. Ended up having it shipped to my parents in the states and then slowly sent to me in HK.

When it arrived I was a bit bummed as the dial looked worse than in the photos. The white residue was over the edges of the dial and I wasn't sure it would come off. The case looked better than I thought though. All the stars were visible and one ding I thought I saw on the case was a reflection. The movement was in terrible shape and corroded.

Here were the shots I took when seeing it in the flesh:



Next was the hunt for someone to help with the restoration. Being pretty new to HK I asked around for some places locally to help. I didn't find much and a lot of the places had mixed reviews. Luckily, I got in contact with a member of the forum here, Ronnie, and he took on the restoration over the weekend.

I just picked up the watch from him today and am really happy with how it came out. Can't thank him enough for his time on this. Here are some photos I took tonight after putting it on a 7912 I had waiting for it.






Constellation group shot:



Sorry for all the text and thanks if you read this far! Big thank you to OF for being such a wealth of knowledge and also a meeting place of so many nice people

 

Looks great Mike, enjoy! .........and did I mention... DIBS!

 

Looks great!


...You can stop buying watches now. Seriously.



Please?

 

LMAO Just curious how many watches you are currently in possession of? Pot vs, Kettle?

 

Hey, hey, HEY! We're talking early Constellations here... And flat link bracelets

 

Great outcome Mike.
You're the flat link master!

 

Fantastic job on this piece! If you don't mind, I'll enter the dibs queue.

 

Or at least leave some bracelets for the rest of us?

 

Very nice!

 

wow...nice collection.....classy waffle

 

Really nice find and beautiful group.
Congrats!

 

Haha I only have 4 constellations. I'm sure there are many members of this forum (and posters on this thread) with more!

All credit for the flatlinks goes to @cristos71. He is the true flatlink master.

 

Dibs on yours! Beautiful dial condition on that one

 

Great restoration Mike! Congratulations!

 

Wow! Now I want one too.
Nice restoration!

 

Nice! What's the reference of the gold bracelet?

 

Wow. What a superb restoration job. Big congrats to yourself and Ronnie.

 

It's a 7077