Do Solid Gold Dial with small hour marker exist?

Hello everyone,

I just met this guy and he was showing me his Gold/Steel 168.005 and claiming that the dial is solid gold. Based on information that I gathered from a good friend of mine, solid gold have to come with large onyx hour marker, not small one like in the picture below. What do you guy think? Does solid dial with small marker really exist? Or this one just a gold-paint dial?

P.S. Sorry for these crappy photos, I took it in low light area

Unlikely IMO - and Why would Omega put a solid gold dial in a low cost steel and rolled gold case ?

anyway, Omega, like Rolex, used the sigma symbol to signify solid gold dials in this era, which this dial doesnt have

@khangct

Solid gold De luxe dials usually had the fat, flat onyx inserts but I can’t say for certain that this was an absolute rule.

Hard to tell conclusively from the pics but the dial above looks to have painted indices.
Once again, I don’t know if Omega ever produced deluxe dials with painted indices once they stopped using onyx inserts as standard but I would be surprised if they did.

The OM tag was added late 60s/early 70s I believe and there are solid gold dial Connies in the mid to late 60s without them, including doglegs (I think @hoipolloi has one)

@mac_omega is correct in saying that, ultimately, you need to see the back of the dial to be sure but @Sherbie is right in that it would be unlikely to find a deluxe dial in a gold capped Connie.
So, if it did turn out to be gold, it is likely to have been transferred into the watch.

The dome dial de luxe came with slim onyx indices but I’ve only seen wide indices on the pie pan

excellent @Noddyman - thank you for clearing that up!

That’s the best thing about OF, chances are someone has got an example of what’s under discussion.

(for the OP, my earlier 14382 dome dial has the wide, flat inserts, so it’s not exclusively a pie-pan thing on all references)

I know - it's late down under....;)

Again, I can’t be unequivocal about this but IIRC the Omega sigma dials appeared late 60s, early 70s and denoted gold dial furniture rather than gold dials and was often seen on ‘lesser’ models like the Seamasters.