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Cosmic museum 1951 instructions needed

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@AnotherDon - that is a lovely picture of your Cosmic that you have shared. I like your white face and strap a lot.

I bought mine new with a gold face and a blue strap about three years ago.

Every year about this time I cross my fingers for Omega to announce a round reissue to be added to their museum collection - surely one year I鈥檒l be right.
 
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Nicherotors Nicherotors
@AnotherDon - that is a lovely picture of your Cosmic that you have shared. I like your white face and strap a lot.

I bought mine new with a gold face and a blue strap about three years ago.

Every year about this time I cross my fingers for Omega to announce a round reissue to be added to their museum collection - surely one year I鈥檒l be right.

Thank you @Nicherotors for the compliment. I bought that watch previously loved a couple of months ago as I don't do new watches. Managed to find the watch with the complete package...box, papers,etc. I bought the watch from a German dealer and as you probably know shipping a watch on an alligator strap through US Customs can be problamatic. The dealer put a cheap black cowhide strap on the watch for shipping and shipped the alligator strap separately. I happened to have that tan croc strap in my strap box and it took me about 10 minutes to switch the straps when the watch arrived. The strap is aftermarket. IIRC, it's an ABP that I picked up along the way. And, the original strap did finally show up. It was a black alligator that gives the watch a fairly formal look, so I left the tan strap on.

About that round reissue...I'm not sure I have enough time left on the planet to ever see it.

馃槈
 
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Megalos Megalos
dear UncleBuck and friends
I believe that our dear Omega has a round watch that is also nice as JLC ones. It is the Louis Brandt collection and I like it a lot

Melagos, of course you're correct. The watch you've shown is round and is an Omega and it does have a moonphase. But, it's a perpetual calendar and it lacks a couple of things that a good perpetual calendar should have. First, it's missing a second hand. Second, it's missing the year. Don't get me wrong, it's quite okay by me for you to like it a lot, but if I ever buy a perpetual calendar, the odds are that it will not say "Omega" on the dial. One of the neat things about this watch hobby is that we each get to pay our money and make our choices.

Finally, "nice as JLC ones"? I would encourage you to go out and look at some JLCs and then come back and tell me that.

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Just do it...
I'd be tempted if a great deal surfaced, yours was surely spectacular.
I have a favorite old boy that's off for repairs in a few weeks (馃槈) and I have to properly care for what I have now before I adopt more family.

Megalos, I admire your watch and Mr. Brandt is Deity to me, but it somehow doesn't stir my soul as a watch of that budget would require. The JLC and the original Cosmics just have a different feel.

Us retired tradesmen are blessed just to be able to collect watches at all, little fish swimming happily with the many whales we have here!

I do love this hobby.
 
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AnotherDon AnotherDon
Melagos, of course you're correct. The watch you've shown is round and is an Omega and it does have a moonphase. But, it's a perpetual calendar and it lacks a couple of things that a good perpetual calendar should have. First, it's missing a second hand. Second, it's missing the year. Don't get me wrong, it's quite okay by me for you to like it a lot, but if I ever buy a perpetual calendar, the odds are that it will not say "Omega" on the dial. One of the neat things about this watch hobby is that we each get to pay our money and make our choices.

Finally, "nice as JLC ones"? I would encourage you to go out and look at some JLCs and then come back and tell me that.

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dear friend , I agree that this watch has not the year as perpetual , but what you mean it is measing a second hand ?? help me understand
 
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Megalos Megalos
dear friend , I agree that this watch has not the year as perpetual , but what you mean it is measing a second hand ?? help me understand

Melagos, the watch has 6 hands and the moonphase window. The six hands are: month, date, day, leap year quadrant, hour, and minute. There is no hand, either sweep or subdial, that shows the seconds ticking away.

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AnotherDon AnotherDon
Melagos, the watch has 6 hands and the moonphase window. The six hands are: month, date, day, leap year quadrant, hour, and minute. There is no hand, either sweep or subdial, that shows the seconds ticking away.

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dear you are completely correct 馃檨 no seconds hand ?? it should be in the moon window ! why Omega didn't put it ?
By the way I have seen that some LB perpetual have is signature in the moon window and other have not it ?
is it normal or those without the signature are not correct (fake !! )
 
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Megalos Megalos
dear you are completely correct 馃檨 no seconds hand ?? it should be in the moon window ! why Omega didn't put it ?
By the way I have seen that some LB perpetual have is signature in the moon window and other have not it ?
is it normal or those without the signature are not correct (fake !! )

Can't help you with why Omega did what they did. I have passed along almost everything I know about that watch, except that I know they were made in the late 80s & early 90s. When I saw that it lacked a second hand, I moved on. I have found that I am just not comfortable wearing a watch that lacks a second hand. On few times that I have worn one, I keep wondering if the damn thing is still running.

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I am just not comfortable wearing a watch that lacks a second hand
Us old guys have to be able to check our pulse !!
 
Megalos
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dear friends ,
I need your help . I have fund a Louis Brandt perpetual and the strange matter for me is that , instead of having the calibre
1116, 1117 or 1118, this watch has the 2890-9 !!
is it that possible ?
please can somebody give an idea what is happening !!
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Megalos Megalos
dear friends ,
I need your help . I have fund a Louis Brandt perpetual and the strange matter for me is that , instead of having the calibre
1116, 1117 or 1118, this watch has the 2890-9 !!
is it that possible ?
please can somebody give an idea what is happening !!

The ETA 2890-9 (2890A9) is the perpetual calendar that Omega based their movement on. There was a time when Omega simply left the ETA cartouche and number on the main plate, rather than changing it to the Omega caliber.

Cheers, Al
 
Megalos
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dear Archer
thanks a lot for your information 馃榾
can you by the way imagine what means also in the case back the writen ''B 20 '' ?
 
Archer
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No, sorry I have no idea...can you post a photo?
 
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No idea what that represents.
 
Megalos
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Archer do you know why this watches have no ''seconds'' hand ?
 
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Megalos Megalos
Archer do you know why this watches have no ''seconds'' hand ?

That's the way the movement was designed...
 
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Anybody knows where i can fix the case of omega in steel with the lug broken?
 
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