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·I thought that I would share a few photos of my now fully restored 1959 Constellation reference 14381 with the factory special order luminous package (note the large triangular lume cutout on the hour hand and the lume dots on top of the arrowhead markers at 1,2,4,5,7,8,10 and 11. To get it back to original condition, we had to source the OEM low profile crystal, correct crown and - most importantly - the hands which then had to be cleaned of oxidation, replated and then relumed to match the lume dots. This particular version also has one of the caliber 551 movements in the early 17,000,000 serial production run that achieved especially good results in Omega’s accuracy trials. To my knowledge, there is only one other example of this version on OF and that is owned by TexOmega. Many thanks to TheGreekPhysique for finding the watch, MtV for sourcing the hands (a nearly impossible task) and to my watchmaker for doing a fantastic job and putting up with - and in fact indulging - my OCD tendencies. 😀
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