Picked up this little steel Seamaster with rose gold dial furniture and frosted textured dial last week, and a case I haven't seen much of before. I haven't been able to work out the reference yet as the back is almost impossible to remove with my caseback wrench. So until I get to a watchmaker I wondered if anyone could make an educated guess on the case reference number? The caseback has already got a few too many marks for me to want to add any more to it right now... I want to order a crystal in the meantime. As you can see there is a rather big crack, shame as it's the original one. I'm guessing it's 5xx caliber. The coat-hanger S is a nice surprise too, as the sellers pictures were quite distorted. Overall I'm very happy with this one, and I haven't owned this type of textured dial before. I think the markers are onyx filled too..
Case looks different to the 14901's i've seen, the lugs don't have the double facets and are larger.. Maybe the 2nd gen ?
Hi Hoi, Well, at least it wasn't an issue with the hands this time! Im pretty sure it's original, I saw a very similar one with the rounded style S sell recently for £550. And that one was questionable. It's a very good job if it is.
Nice one Alex! I like the combination of the dial texture (is this a 'linen dial'?) and the rose gold. Lovely.
