eBay Ed White With a Strange Looking PrePro Dial

Isn't that a service dial? Short lume plots..

The hour recorder subdial does look a bit smudgy..

Not as bad as this one, but yeah.

It looks like it's been pulled.

Bummer

To me, it looks like the dial has been touched up in certain spots, especially the sub dials and OMEGA. Look at the 7 hour mark on the sub dial. The paint ran past the edge of the sub dial. All the paint looks too thick. Wonder what it ended up going for?🙄

Here's a similar dial as seen from @divertimer on Instagram. Font appears the same at first glance. May be a different service dial for @Spacefruit to catalogue.



https://www.instagram.com/p/BYq0AuMj2w7/?taken-by=divetimer

For absolutely accuracy it is on speedmaster 101 but I am sure William can point you to it, in case here it is.

So, before anyone conjures up some wonderful myth about these dials they are mid/ late 60's service replacements, I have a friend who has a one owner 2998 which had a movement replacement and dial replacement in 1967, this dial was fitted then including a NOS 1967 movement and he has the receipts to back it up. I would also add it has a complete Omega service history for its entire life and the only time it mentioned a dial and movement change was 1967, which the serial number on the movement corroborated and matched to the records

I did quite a lot of research for him and concluded that it is a service dial (to an extent) but so few have been seen that I came to the conclusion it was produced for a very short space of time in the late 1960's, sure I could be wrong and welcome further views but I have seen evidence that one of these dials was fitted in 1967.

I don't believe this is any different to a blue dial service dial or a grey service dial (other than the obvious value), you can chose to agree or disagree I really don't mind but there are as many of these I know of as there are blue metallic service dials, people place a value on the blue service dial because it is 'different' this is no less different or rare.

I am not suggesting that it should increase the value of an ed white but I certainly wouldn't be put off buying one with one of these dials

Thanks Tom

I agree that I wouldn't be put off buying one of these service dials, but I'd take a grey, metallic, or soleil dial over one of these any day of the week.

Couldn't agree more @Cad290