Hello fellers!.... great to wake up to a nice quiet Sunday morning I recently got in touch with a seller about a watch he was planning to sell. He sent over a few images, yeah nice to wake up to see these shots on my phone hah . Is it a Geneve model though? I never knew omega had non geneve/devilles/SMs in their lineup. This one is a gold filled bezel with SS caseback. But those dauphine hands.... guys what do you think? Is it... a tad short? Seconds hand goes all the way to the edge, looking fine. But the dauphine hands though... short?

 

Doesn't look like a redial to my untrained eye... The fonts for the words "automatic" and Swiss made look alright. The crown wears the more recent Omega symbol compared to the one on the dial which appears more period-correct, so may be a replacement.

 

I'm not familiar with all Omega models, even after being here for a few years.

Those hands look distinctly short to me though.

 

Looks like there is tritium on the dial and black paint on the hands.

 

Noted that too... unless that's how tritium ages..?

 

But its the length that bothers me... I need to look at more vintage omega dauphine hands... for 36mm cases. To get an idea...

 

It's an American cased production (case by Jonell) distributed by Norman Morris, so it isn't a Genève as it wasn't produced in Geneva, and it's not a Seamaster as it doesn't have a Seamaster caseback.

It's simply an "Omega Automatic" with a 10K gold filled bezel, gold plated case and stainless steel back with a nice clean 17 jewel 550.

The dial looks original and the hands have dark aged lume. As it was produced in the USA I suspect the hands are original, if a bit shorter than we see on Swiss variants.

The case does look pretty beat up though.

 

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Looks like maybe it should have stick hands.
Case back could be changed and not a KL6312

https://www.omegawatches.com/planet-omega/heritage/vintage-details/15516/

 

Jim thanks man really helpful insights

 

Pippy and M.C.... thanks guys really appreciate it..

 

It's a Cal 550, not a 560.

 

It's a franken. Wrong movement and dial for the case. Wrong hands for the dial.

Movement and dial appear in good condition for parts.

 

Meaning it should have been a 560 instead of a 550 calibre for this production then... Seller is asking $400 though..

 

Hah! There you go... thanks appreciate this

 

Who knows. Watches were serviced in the old days and sometimes the nearest caseback was fitted by mistake, it didn't really matter then.
Also, with the American assembled watches, there may have been some use of whatever was available from the case suppliers.

Some members more familiar with US pricing may be able to advise, but I feel USD$400 is a bit high.

 

I don't think this is really true. The case back is the only place on a watch that has the reference number for ordering parts and watchmakers then or now would always need to order parts, so I don't think a lot of them are that careless. This myth is mostly conjured up by non-watchmaking speculators, methinks.

 

So a "Watchmaker's Special" then.

 

Yes, I agree, a watch by Dr. Frankenstein.