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  1. Joeymachwano Dec 6, 2019

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    Been in the family for 30+ years solid gold band looks exactly like a guitar string any info helps thx
     
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  2. MyVintageOmega Dec 6, 2019

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    If it's a true omega it is clearly a custom designer watch and have seen similar sell from 1500 USD, upwards to 10K.
    Also the style now-a-days could sell as a Unisex. Nice piece from the onset.
    PS.- Can't wait to tell my Wife...."Elvis lives"
     
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  3. Syrte MWR Tech Support Dept Dec 7, 2019

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    1960s or 1970s I would think. @Vitezi I recall had really nice catalogues documenting Omegas in a similar style.
     
  4. Vitezi Dec 7, 2019

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    I can't find a match in any catalog to the OP watch, but we can maybe make some generalizations from the period literature.

    Catalogs from the mid-1960s mark the introduction of intricate gold bracelets such as the OP example, but only on ladies' watches. At the time men's dress watches were trending towards the use of a sedate gold mesh bracelet such as these from 1964:

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    By the early-1970s, dress watch bracelets were getting a little more artistic, such as this example from 1974:

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    By the late 1970s, diamonds appeared on ladies' watch cases as seen in this catalog page from 1977...

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    ...and gold bracelets were in vogue...

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    ...so one could infer the OP watch dates to the mid/late 1970s based on the style.
     
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  5. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Dec 7, 2019

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    Elvis? Is that you? :D
     
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  6. OMEGuy Dec 7, 2019

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    I have never seen an OMEGA like yours before. Especially the bracelet is somehow new to me.

    But as @Vitezi stated above, the watch might be legit.

    If you want to be sure of what you have there, have the watch opened by a watchmaker.
     
  7. Syrte MWR Tech Support Dept Dec 7, 2019

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    Wonderful @Vitezi your catalogues never cease to amaze me.
     
  8. janice&fred Dec 7, 2019

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    at any rate the watch does go well with the pinky ring. that combo would be the hot setup in some Brooklyn social clubs.
     
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