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··Home For Wayward WatchesDial just freshly hand drawn this morning!
This watch came to be a resident of the Home For Wayward Watches a few months back. I've worn it a few times and kept it running for up to a week at a time and it runs like a scalded jackrabbit. Very accurate, it is. Meets my relaxed accuracy expectations because it remains within the same minute as set for seven days. Researching finds it's a 2438-4 having a 28.10 movement.
Any of y'all have a decent example of this model to show?
Found it for cheap in a watchmaker's shop out here in the west central Texas region. Sold as having been serviced though after finally getting around to opening the watch I have a dim view of that claim. Dial is an obviously poor redial from some time ago as the redial itself is aged. It's a pale imitation of how the watch once looked as found on an Omega Forums image of an example offered for sale by BenBagbag (if I'd known I was in for one of these then, I'd have rather had his for only $125 more). https://omegaforums.net/threads/vintage-1940s-omega-bumper-ref-2438-4-stainless-steel.97246/
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Figured it would hold a 351 automatic movement from about 1950, but it appears to be a little older than that. BenBagbag pegged his at 1946 and his watch's serial number is very similar to this one's.
Has the odd light-to-dark switcheroo dial finish depending on the angle. What is it about the finish that does that?
It coordinates with a lot of my casual clothing and is fun to wear around our pokey town where no one knows the difference. If it remains accurate after being serviced for real this time then it could a good way to wear cheap Omega when one travels to some locales. Besides, if one looks at it from a distance or crosses his eyes to take them out of focus, it looks pretty smart. Even that non-original red second hand that's bent. Hah!
This watch came to be a resident of the Home For Wayward Watches a few months back. I've worn it a few times and kept it running for up to a week at a time and it runs like a scalded jackrabbit. Very accurate, it is. Meets my relaxed accuracy expectations because it remains within the same minute as set for seven days. Researching finds it's a 2438-4 having a 28.10 movement.
Any of y'all have a decent example of this model to show?
Found it for cheap in a watchmaker's shop out here in the west central Texas region. Sold as having been serviced though after finally getting around to opening the watch I have a dim view of that claim. Dial is an obviously poor redial from some time ago as the redial itself is aged. It's a pale imitation of how the watch once looked as found on an Omega Forums image of an example offered for sale by BenBagbag (if I'd known I was in for one of these then, I'd have rather had his for only $125 more). https://omegaforums.net/threads/vintage-1940s-omega-bumper-ref-2438-4-stainless-steel.97246/
BenBagbag's image
Figured it would hold a 351 automatic movement from about 1950, but it appears to be a little older than that. BenBagbag pegged his at 1946 and his watch's serial number is very similar to this one's.
Has the odd light-to-dark switcheroo dial finish depending on the angle. What is it about the finish that does that?
It coordinates with a lot of my casual clothing and is fun to wear around our pokey town where no one knows the difference. If it remains accurate after being serviced for real this time then it could a good way to wear cheap Omega when one travels to some locales. Besides, if one looks at it from a distance or crosses his eyes to take them out of focus, it looks pretty smart. Even that non-original red second hand that's bent. Hah!
