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·My dad let me bid on this 2657-4 2494 at a State of Florida abandoned/seized assets auction back in 1987. The state would hold auctions in the capital and sell items that were abandoned in safety deposit boxes or seized by the state. It was a two watch lot, with the other being a 1950's Schild movement retailer watch with an oversized stepped lug case.
We paid $75 for the lot, and it was my first vintage Omega, A fun watch for a 8 year old to wear, on a near perfect 7077 bracelet nonetheless (that is enroute to another member), but honestly it spent another 28 years in a safe.
Now that I have jumped back in the Omega pool headfirst, I have begun to wonder if the dial is an amazing older redial, or if it was a factory one-off, possibly some sort of prototype of an early Seamaster. With a movement in the 10.9m serial range, and a reference starting production in 1949, it is clearly an early one.
In the end it doesn't matter what it is since it, along with my Rolex Army, were the first "high end" vintage pieces that started my watch obsession at a very young age.
Any and all insight would be greatly appreciated, as I have no clue what it is.
We paid $75 for the lot, and it was my first vintage Omega, A fun watch for a 8 year old to wear, on a near perfect 7077 bracelet nonetheless (that is enroute to another member), but honestly it spent another 28 years in a safe.
Now that I have jumped back in the Omega pool headfirst, I have begun to wonder if the dial is an amazing older redial, or if it was a factory one-off, possibly some sort of prototype of an early Seamaster. With a movement in the 10.9m serial range, and a reference starting production in 1949, it is clearly an early one.
In the end it doesn't matter what it is since it, along with my Rolex Army, were the first "high end" vintage pieces that started my watch obsession at a very young age.
Any and all insight would be greatly appreciated, as I have no clue what it is.
