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jamessmart250
·Hi all,
I’m a new member and an Omega noob, posting because I’d really appreciate some advice on finding watch cases for a couple of Omega 625 movements. I inherited a box of loose movements from my Grandad who worked for over 15 years at David Shackman & Sons in Chesham, Bucks, of which many of you may well know. My understanding was that the movements were imported loose for the avoidance of a higher tax on consumer goods that the watches would be subject to if they were fully assembled, and that DS&S were casemakers for Omega, Rolex and Jaeger Le Coultre.
There’s two movements which are particularly nice, one ladies and the other I believe is unisex, but I’m hoping to find a gents style case to fit so that I can wear it and give the other to my sister for us to wear as heirlooms, even if they are frankens.
(I stitched a few photos together because I couldn’t zoom further out on the microscope!)
The first is, I believe, a 12 lignes dial, manual wind 625 movement from 1974 from a Deville watch. It differs from the others I have because it has a sort of case surround around the movement, which I imagine strongly dictates the type of case it will fit. This surround also has a circular notch at 8 o’clock. I’m assuming maybe this just adapts the small movement to a larger case.
The second has the same movement from the same year but without the case surround. I’m not 100% sure on the size but it seems to be 9 ⅜ lignes, I think this one’s pretty stunning!
You might notice that both have ‘½’ etched by hand on the movement; my Grandad was Arthur, ‘Arth’ for short and signed everything as “½” 😀.
So my questions are the same for both movements really, can you advise:
All the best
James
I’m a new member and an Omega noob, posting because I’d really appreciate some advice on finding watch cases for a couple of Omega 625 movements. I inherited a box of loose movements from my Grandad who worked for over 15 years at David Shackman & Sons in Chesham, Bucks, of which many of you may well know. My understanding was that the movements were imported loose for the avoidance of a higher tax on consumer goods that the watches would be subject to if they were fully assembled, and that DS&S were casemakers for Omega, Rolex and Jaeger Le Coultre.
There’s two movements which are particularly nice, one ladies and the other I believe is unisex, but I’m hoping to find a gents style case to fit so that I can wear it and give the other to my sister for us to wear as heirlooms, even if they are frankens.
(I stitched a few photos together because I couldn’t zoom further out on the microscope!)
The first is, I believe, a 12 lignes dial, manual wind 625 movement from 1974 from a Deville watch. It differs from the others I have because it has a sort of case surround around the movement, which I imagine strongly dictates the type of case it will fit. This surround also has a circular notch at 8 o’clock. I’m assuming maybe this just adapts the small movement to a larger case.
The second has the same movement from the same year but without the case surround. I’m not 100% sure on the size but it seems to be 9 ⅜ lignes, I think this one’s pretty stunning!
You might notice that both have ‘½’ etched by hand on the movement; my Grandad was Arthur, ‘Arth’ for short and signed everything as “½” 😀.
So my questions are the same for both movements really, can you advise:
- Is there a specific type of case these would fit? Snapback, uni shell etc.?
- Can you help identify a compatible case model number for each so that I could get them into watches? I found watches in 111.077 that looked to be the same dial as the larger movement but the back of the movement didn’t seem compatible.
- Any recommendations for where to buy cases if so? I was advised Dennison might be a good start
- Is there a set dial size to correspond to a set case size or is there a bit of freedom of what fits?
- What are your thoughts on servicing given that they’ll be frankens?
- General help identifying the models
All the best
James
