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Manfromporlock
·Hi everyone,
My brother has a vintage Omega, or maybe a vintage phony, that he inherited from our uncle; we've been trying to find out more about it and I found these forums. Sorry for the mediocre photos.
The face says: [Omega logo] / OMEGA / AUTOMATIC / Seamaster (this is in script) Along the very bottom it says “SWISS MADE T”.
All of that, including the logo, is printed on.
It has a winding knob (with an Omega logo) on the right and a window for the date but not the day or month.
The hour notches seem painted on with something thick that’s yellowed over time; they still glow in the dark. There are narrow slits in the hands that seem to hold the same paint, but if the hands ever glowed in the dark they don’t now.
The Seamaster seahorse seal on the back is crisp and well-stamped.
The band may not be original, and it’s tiny. This supports the vague family memory that my uncle got it as a bar mitvah gift—the band would fit a skinny 13-year-old. That would mean the watch is no newer than 1962 or so. Unfortunately I got rid of a bunch of watch bits in a tag sale that, in retrospect, may have included the original band.
We’ve tried googling, but we can't find this particular model. Two things in particular have stumped us:
The fact that it says “SWISS MADE T”, not “T SWISS MADE T”, which we haven’t found in other Omegas.
The hour notch for 12 has those dots on either side of it, which we haven’t seen on a Seamaster. For that matter, we haven’t seen the painted-on hour notches on Seamasters at all. Both are common on Speedmasters, hence why I think it might be a fake hodgepodge of Omega-ish bits. Or it could be a real but odd variant.
Anyway, thanks for reading to the bottom of this, and thanks for any help! Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask.
EDIT: Thanks for the replies, everyone! Glad to learn it's real.
My brother has a vintage Omega, or maybe a vintage phony, that he inherited from our uncle; we've been trying to find out more about it and I found these forums. Sorry for the mediocre photos.
The face says: [Omega logo] / OMEGA / AUTOMATIC / Seamaster (this is in script) Along the very bottom it says “SWISS MADE T”.
All of that, including the logo, is printed on.
It has a winding knob (with an Omega logo) on the right and a window for the date but not the day or month.
The hour notches seem painted on with something thick that’s yellowed over time; they still glow in the dark. There are narrow slits in the hands that seem to hold the same paint, but if the hands ever glowed in the dark they don’t now.
The Seamaster seahorse seal on the back is crisp and well-stamped.
The band may not be original, and it’s tiny. This supports the vague family memory that my uncle got it as a bar mitvah gift—the band would fit a skinny 13-year-old. That would mean the watch is no newer than 1962 or so. Unfortunately I got rid of a bunch of watch bits in a tag sale that, in retrospect, may have included the original band.
We’ve tried googling, but we can't find this particular model. Two things in particular have stumped us:
The fact that it says “SWISS MADE T”, not “T SWISS MADE T”, which we haven’t found in other Omegas.
The hour notch for 12 has those dots on either side of it, which we haven’t seen on a Seamaster. For that matter, we haven’t seen the painted-on hour notches on Seamasters at all. Both are common on Speedmasters, hence why I think it might be a fake hodgepodge of Omega-ish bits. Or it could be a real but odd variant.
Anyway, thanks for reading to the bottom of this, and thanks for any help! Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask.
EDIT: Thanks for the replies, everyone! Glad to learn it's real.
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