This could be a nice watch:

Rare montre oméga seamaster or 18k certifiée chronomètre calibre 354 à butée: http://bit.ly/Ugsb9r

Seller claims original dial (google translate from the French), but I think it is a redial:
- the Fab Suisse at the top of the dial
- the cross hairs not perfectly intersecting with the 6 and 9 markers
- crosshairs just missing the M, hence failing the MOY test

Views?

 

Fascinating, thanks. Now I am very interested in it.

 

You should go for it, looks like a nice one! I have seen fab Suisse in that same location on a 352 chronometer on another forum.

 

Can't quite justify it at the moment. In a few more months I should have the $ for a solid gold piece. For now, I need to sit on my hands....

Unless of course it goes cheap

 

Here is a ref 816 Medicus I have with the same FAB. SUISSE on the dial.

 

Following on from this Discussion, I've got a very unusual Omega I have just been given by my fiancé for Christmas.

It's a 6B/159 Omega White faced mechanical watch.

After a short amount of research, I believe it to be a 40s/50s era Air Ministry watch.

Oddities however:

It doesn't seem to have a full serial number on the back, only the pre-cursor 6B/159 - missing the following numbers giving details of year of manufacture.

And more strangely ( and the connection with this article) IMPORTE DE SUISSE below the 6. Why would a British military stamped aircrew watch have a French law imposed expression on its face?

It was purchased from a small antique shop in my village in Suffolk where I live. The home of the Allied Air Forces during WW2.

Any comments or thoughts would be great. It was purchased for me as I'm a military aviator myself and it's history is very interesting!!

 

Nice and unusual.
Here in the 1940 catalog :


The very specific font for the numbers on the dial of yours would date it between 1941 and 1943 in my opinion. Am I right?

Same dial here on a circa 1943 ref CK2175 (with 23.4SC also) :

 

Terry - you would be better served starting a new thread for this watch. Be sure to read the sticky thread about posting vintage watches for evaluation.