Centenary 2500 JUB Serial Numbers

omegastar

There is another delivery date (french) in the Omega black book for the one with the red leather box.

John R Smith

The scarcest 2500 does indeed turn out to be a rose-gold version of the watch with the Centenary engraving on the back, complete with its rating certificate (and better still, the silver box). Expect to pay a considerable premium for one of those 🥰

Privateday7

OK, I've already put it in my wish list 😁. Where is Santa when you really need it?

bupdyke

On the bottom of page 261 of AJTT. Date is September 1, 1949 sold in France.

bupdyke

Years ago I had 2 Cal. 2500’s and 1 2499. I have the numbers of one of the larger 2500 models. Case number was 10725332. the ref. number 2500 was inscribed in the case back. Movement number was 10760912. Omega said it was delivered to their agents in Curacao on October 26, 1948. Not sure when it was actually sold out the door.

John R Smith

Dream on, H 😉 I think Senhor Gravina has the only one . . . (or the only one we know about).



Odd that what is purported to be a very early Centenary (because of the wood box) was actually sold in late 1949. A nice example, though.





Bruce, are you absolutely sure that case # 10725332 had the "2500" engraved inside the back? This is only nine units away from the King of Denmark's Centenary, and we know (from photos) that his watch did not have the 2500 engraving.

bupdyke

John, my mistake, Omega referenced it as “OT 2500” but no number on case back. I do not have photos. What a huge mistake to not take photos before I sold my earlier collection. 😡

Just a personal recommendation: always take photo’s of your watches before you sell them. You may regret it later on when you want to reference your past collection or even revisit some sweet memories!

cicindela

Of course it would be best if you just sold all your ex-watches to me and I would be happy to photograph them any time you wished. 😁

John R Smith

Yet another table update (yawn) with Bruce's first Centenary added. I have squeezed in another column for date of delivery, where known - now this is what you get in Omega's Extract of the Archives, so if any of you with Centenaries have that info it would be great to add it. As it stands we can probably say that the second half of Batch One were being delivered from the factory in late 1948. It has also struck me that if we look at the range of case numbers in Batch One at present it spans 1,701. So perhaps, just perhaps, there was in fact a consecutive sequence of 2,000 case numbers allocated to the first batch of Centenary OT 2500s.


I am at present in the process of purchasing my own OT 2500 - I hope. It is all rather odd, with strange negotiations going on and difficulties of language and translation just to add to the mix. We shall see what happens . . .

UncleBuck

John,
These guys have another couple of dozen........ They are just giving them to you one at a time and laughing their asses off as you keep reposting your list !!

cicindela

We are going to have to have a Jubilee GTG as some point, probably in NE US as, until we get more Euro data, it seems to be the nexus of the known modern Centenary world. Europe is probably really in the lead.

pitpro

Good Luck John

John R Smith

You think you are just kidding, don't you . . . I know some of our members are sitting on all the best examples