Check Seamaster 2849 dial/hands/glass

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Hi everyone,

Can I please get your opinion on the dial, hands and crystal of this 2849?

The dial looks good to me with crisp stamp, but I have some doubts on the glass and hands.

Thank you in advance!

 
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Welcome @Dernex17

Some context is always welcome. Do you own the watch? Are you considering buying it?
Photos of caseback (inside and out), movement helpful.

It looks like a 2849 but above info will tell for sure. It should have 503 movement, and serial number range dating it from 1956-1962
Info from Omega vintage database: https://www.omegawatches.com/en-ca/watch-omega-seamaster-calendar-ck-2849

Dial- I agree looks good, with some degradation of the lacquer layer causing some of the texture irregularities on first photo. Better preserved than most of these. Many but not all of these have CALENDAR beneath the Seamaster script. Crosshair is nice. Indices have onyx markers, also nice. The script is very clean and very "serifed" but looks good to me.

Hands are correct dauphine style in very good condition. Non luminous.

Crystal is original Omega most likely original to ths watch- can clearly see the older Omega flat foot logo on the magnified photos. The white spots on the first and fourth photos are on the crystal- probably dust- the crystal will be fine with cleaning and any scratches will buff out with Polywatch so I would not worry about that.
 
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Hands are later replacement and a bit too long.
They should be faceted dauphine, not domed (rounded top) dauphine.
 
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Thank you @SOG53 and @hoipolloi for the feedbacks! I'm owing this watch is a 2849-15sc to be precise, probably the immages are misleading do to the compression of the depth of the marco shot, actually the minutes hands is matching the seconds mark on the dial not going beyond.

I had the doubt regarding the hands as in some research I've found kind of a "flat hands" and in other cases the domed one, but never the faceted style.

(I've attached the two example I compared to as reference)

Having the wrong hands, could it be realistic to get the correct ones? Sorry but I'm kind of new of the vintage omega world

 
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My view: Hands are fine. Messing with trying to find period correct hands and replace service hands could create new problems. Been there.
 
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I’m seriously impressed with the quality of photos the OP was able to post, rarely do people go to that length.

I’d just stick with those hands as @Larry S suggested, it’s close enough and the watch looks quite aesthetically appealing overall, im sure it looks great on the wrist.
 
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Thanks all! On the wrist it looks really nice considering also the case has few marks but it's razor sharp on the lugs.

For the immages I've just used the out-of-the-box macro mode on iphone 16 Pro, I've to say it's really impressive!