At my friend's place for a little midweek hockey and wine. After telling him about my inaugural post on OF he brought out this guy. Pretty cool! All he knows is that it's stainless steel, from the 60s and honors one of our favorite activities (impulse road trips to Atlantic City). What do you think? Anyone know more about this watch? Jamie
Curious dial--I like it. Don't bother trying to google for "omega casino themed dial", because it'll just bring up Casino Royale models and pics of Daniel Craig Looks like this might be an 18k variant of the same? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Excellent-V...588339?hash=item2a7c1837b3:g:24MAAOSwYIxX3Vb-Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network If that listing is accurate, your friends watch probably dates from the 50s?
This listing is accurate, it explicitly says it's a redial "THE DIAL: Beautiful Omega dial nicely refinished in gorgeous white and checkered design featuring poker suits as hour markers, in black and red. The golden hands are dauphine shaped and have luminous inlay that glows in the night. Detailed seconds subdial at 6." Secondly, the font is all wrong
Yea Omega didn't make these dials, its an extremely popular redial option though along with things like Freemason motifs and military markings when dealers have an ordinary to poor watch that won't sell for much and they want to jack the price up.
I certainly believe so by judging the minute track, individual sector lines, and the sub-second track printing. I could be wrong...
Even if that poker dial is a redial, it's pretty awesome looking and I've never seen anything like it til today. Hopefully it didn't cost him an arm and a leg though.
No, I don't think it was too bad. He's a good sport anyway. Thanks, everyone, for your input! Interesting stuff.
Oh wow, yeah, a bunch of stuff comes up. Looks like the poker/casino theme is a very popular redial. Does that mean something's fishy with the movement as well?
Depending on where you are and when it was bought, it could be that it was part of a specialty sold in an actual casino. I know that there is an Omega in Foxwoods casino in CT but Foxwoods has only been open since 1986. That being said, maybe there were other Omegas open in casinos... Pure speculation.
I've seen these floating around FleBay and I am curious. I live here in Vegas and I play video poker from time to time. It looks like most of the one's I find on line are larger converted pocket watches.
I have also seen some Doctor dials on watches. They have spacific markings for taking the pulse rate of a patient. I am always both cautious and curious about them if they are a true thing or just a redial.