Earliest case reference for Omega bumper movement

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hoipolloi

·May 2, 2020·Vintage Omega Connoisseur

ConElPueblo

It'd also be the perfect watch for a postman at work in the early hours of the day or for a milkman doing his rounds.

Postman and milkman are allowed to have gold on their watches, soldiers are not.

 

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Pahawi

·May 2, 2020

Hate working in steel, so think I'll pass…. 😀

 

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KingCrouchy

·May 2, 2020

hoipolloi

Postman and milkman are allowed to have gold on their watches, soldiers are not.

How about officers?😕

 

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ConElPueblo

·May 2, 2020

KingCrouchy

How about officers?😕

Sure 👍

 

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KingCrouchy

·May 2, 2020

ConElPueblo

Sure 👍

If I start collecting vintage Certinas, it will be your fault!

 

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hoipolloi

·May 2, 2020·Vintage Omega Connoisseur

Redial! I see no lume but 2 T's

 

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·May 2, 2020·Vintage Omega Connoisseur

KingCrouchy

How about officers?😕

No gold either!

 

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KingCrouchy

·May 2, 2020

hoipolloi

No gold either!

Can confirm on that one.

 

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ConElPueblo

·May 3, 2020

hoipolloi

Redial! I see no lume but 2 T's

Known dial variation - just like the ones with loads of lume, but no Ts on some other DS variants 😉

 

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Maskelyne

·May 3, 2020

A strange discussion about "military" watches here i think. The definition should be issued ones. And a "soldier" is a general term. Black dials and big arabic numerals with luminova does not make a watch military as of definition. Not in my world of watches. As the forum is a source of knowledge and has a reputation of susbstantial information I say we shall use proper definitions.

Here is another exampel, a 2374-7 in poor condition...

 

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hoipolloi

·May 3, 2020·Vintage Omega Connoisseur

I know some Seiko sold in the 60's are more "military" than that.

 

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Maskelyne

·May 3, 2020

hoipolloi

I know some Seiko sold in the 60's are more "military" than that.

It´s not military at all. It´s just another 2374 I wanted to show, that´s it. 😀

 

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trash_gordon

·Jun 27, 2022

I may have found one of the earliest 2374 with a really low serial and Caseback i would call a 2374-0 😀

 

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ALEJANDRO BOVONE

·Jun 27, 2022

ConElPueblo

I think that may be due to the weird idea that some people have that a watch with arabic numerals = military.

I cannot for the life of me fathom it.

most likely this idea spread over time. some bits of information go around and are picked by people wanting to enhance sales or even hype for pieces they own. you can see many people calling tropical dial to destroyed discolor horrible lacquer, so this military thing might come from the idea that military watches had big visible arabic numeral dials with lume hands.

 

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hoipolloi

·Jun 27, 2022·Vintage Omega Connoisseur

trash_gordon

I may have found one of the earliest 2374 with a really low serial and Caseback i would call a 2374-0 😀

That is a very early bumper, but still a bit later than the one in this thread (9782...)

https://omegaforums.net/threads/earliest-bumpers.139877/