Peemacgee
·I think my fondness for hidden-crown round-cased Connies is well known by now.
I've a small clutch of 168.010s but I've never been able to land a 168.004 - until now.
This rather nice pie-pan .04 Connie came up yesterday and to my delight I managed to bag it.
Nice sharp case, original hidden crown, with a little bubbling on the dial -but I can put up with that.
It is, however, something of a hybrid anomaly and has a few quirks that might interest folks.
- especially if, like me, you followed these old threads with valuable input from @hoipolloi amongst others.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/help-identify-this-constellation.57205/
https://omegaforums.net/threads/comepare-dial-168-004.23535/
First of all it's rather late for an .04 - sold in '67 but it does have a corresponding 24,29xxx serial.
Secondly, it has a quite 'sharp-edged' pie-pan dial not usually associated with an .04, which are generally considered to be softer.
Thirdly, it is SS but has a brickwork observatory, again more usually associated with the later .010 version rather than an .04
Finally, and possibly most unusually, it's powered by a cal 564, not the usual 561 movement.
I've a small clutch of 168.010s but I've never been able to land a 168.004 - until now.
This rather nice pie-pan .04 Connie came up yesterday and to my delight I managed to bag it.
Nice sharp case, original hidden crown, with a little bubbling on the dial -but I can put up with that.
It is, however, something of a hybrid anomaly and has a few quirks that might interest folks.
- especially if, like me, you followed these old threads with valuable input from @hoipolloi amongst others.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/help-identify-this-constellation.57205/
https://omegaforums.net/threads/comepare-dial-168-004.23535/
First of all it's rather late for an .04 - sold in '67 but it does have a corresponding 24,29xxx serial.
Secondly, it has a quite 'sharp-edged' pie-pan dial not usually associated with an .04, which are generally considered to be softer.
Thirdly, it is SS but has a brickwork observatory, again more usually associated with the later .010 version rather than an .04
Finally, and possibly most unusually, it's powered by a cal 564, not the usual 561 movement.
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