They are sold as kits. Amazing. Careful out there!. They look like the real thing, but I've read elsewhere they are fakes. Seems the "factory" is also faking Fortis Marinemasters. New specialty: colorful watches from the 70s, sold as kits (NOS) or even assembled.
Wow..... Its like the Harley Davidson thing, you can build a complete Harley out of aftermarket parts, right down to the engine, and nobody really seems bothered by that. except maybe Harley.
I'm quite attracted to the Dynamics and I'm not sure what to think about these. I suppose that if you bought a kit to build it just for your own interest, it has some hobby value. But these things have a habit of 'migrating' and could become insidious.
I actually find this fascinating. What would be the reasons to not buy this + movement as a daily beater?
Where the parts come from , Omega has tacitly acknowledged the Watchco watches as Omegas. These dynamics have not been shown to be 100% Omega and the OP referred to them as fakes.
I think what @fjf is saying is that these are fake parts, not made by Omega. I don't know these well enough but in the eBay ad, now removed, the dial printing looks crude. If these are fake parts then I wouldn't go near them. On the other hand, the Watchco SM300s are all Omega parts, they just never left the factory together. I'm sure that it's been stated before that Omega do not have a problem with you re-casing your 565 sixties movement into a new case as long as you started with a watch. Edit: post crossed with @cicindela ... Cheers, Chris
I have seen these Dynamic and Fortis kits. They look great. I thought they were like the Watchco kits. OEM/NOS parts. I am curious, what is the source of the claim that they are fakes?.
Well, the Fortis thing is evident. They even send you a fortis branded rotor so you can turn a standard ETA movement into a Fortis branded one. And in the cases sometimes they stamp the word Waterproof wrongly, as Waterproop. And they no longer use proper Supercompressor cases (at the beginning, they used spares). And the kits for Dynamics are fake as hell as well. The dials are clearly not original (although the quality is not bad). And finally, the price, and the endless supply of kits.
I wonder, how many assembled dynamics out there are also fakes?. And how many of those watchco speedys are real?. Those who bought from WatchCo directly can be sure, but what about the resold ones?.
