I would like to share this dilemma....

The fading away of the "Omega" and the "Automatic" text are making me very curious, so is this a redial? Is this Omega original font type and printing?

 

Fading would not be unusual at all, and the printing looks pretty crisp to me.

What reference is this, and from around what year? Fonts changed over time.

 

This is from a ref. 2520 cal.352RG, with a serial number that puts the watch between the years '50 to '51.
Actually, my concern was that only some of the text is fading

 

My layman's thoughts would be that fading indicates the text is older, so a redial would fade less as it would be newer. I know redials happened back in the day too, but logically that's the way I'd think of it

 

So perhaps an older Omega Automatic, that was then re-issued into a Chronometer Officially Certified Seamaster? The fonts are so close to factory standard... Was this done by Omega, I wonder?

 

.... too close....
The 2520 "Seamaster":

Compared to my 2518 cal.343RG off the same era:

 

Guys, call me stupid (anyone does...) , but what is the exact issue here?
As stated by @Darlinboy, font looks sharp, fading might just be age and ...... ?

 

..... so why would anyone in their right mind need to glue all the markers and the Omega logo onto that beautiful "un-tampered with" dial, post factory issuing??????

.... All those silver blobs around the marker & logo feet are cement traces... which have even migrated and left traces on the movement itself
Why???

 

Ah, new and undisclosed information!! Is this a quiz? I like
Caseback plastic?
Methinks it is a fake!!

 

pls. post a close up of the complete dial, if you want answers. kind regards. achim

 

I think it is legit - still has the old radium lume fillings in the indices

 

+1

 

Hello Melhadary,

I have a ref. 2577 with a cal. 352 that has a very similar dial to your watch...

Yours looks identical in every detail...maybe someone removed the dial furniture to clean the dial and was cautious replacing it for fear of damaging the dial by heating the solder or they just didn't have the skills. Whatever happened I have to agree with others from above and say yours looks origional to me.

 

In the early Seamaster models, I beleive the Seamaster word was printed after. Many dials don't have the word printed on them, like they decided afterwards to print it. Somtimes it is in a different place. All this to say that if it was printed later it was printed in a different way, even maybe on the laquer or with a different ink. Just my opinion.

 

if it is a reprint, which I think it is, it is a well executed one. I think, the dial should be 2 tone, just like the one shown here by hijacks. what bothers me most, is the re dialers notch at 12. but I would buy that one. even with the slight flaws. kind regards. achim

 

Actually Gator, that's what's so confusing, there doesn't seem to be any uneven degradation on the dial and the only change I see effected on the dial is where the cement may have seeped onto it from under the logo... Here's the dial from another angle showing this: