Hands and Numbers...

Forgive what may be a simple question for Omega Vets...but I'm looking at Seamasters with black faces and am overwhelmed by the tremendous variation...I lean toward the Mid-sixties just 'cause that's what I'm wearing. But I've read a bunch of the forum about replacement hands and repainted faces...and I feel like I'm beginning to get a feel for what's out-of-sorts on some of these watches (cooked numbers, luminescence on hands but not numbers etc)

One thing I've never seen is number hashes (what do you call the lines on a watch without Arabic numerals?) that are simply painted on...in all the variations of Seamaster faces, there always seems to be some relief to the numbers.

Is there any truth to that? And is it a good rule that luminescent numbers are always coupled with luminescent hands?

Love to hear if there are any rules of thumb on the Omega design side...Here were two watches I was looking at...to show the difference...

that's more what I'm used to...

and here's one just wrapping up on ebay...


Or am I being Judgey?

It's best if you refer to the dial as a dial, not a face.


Plural: Indices.
Singular: Index.


Correct, mismatching hands and dial, either In terms of lume or hardware metal, is a good tell of a frankenwatch.


Gold hands and indices can be found on a steel watch, but steel hands and indices are never found on a gold watch.

Hope this helps

Second watch has a so-called technical dial which does not have raised indices (could be in some versions but I haven’t seen them). I don’t know about the other watch but the dial looks off to me. Vintage black dial Omegas are a minefield!

PS: not saying that the technical dial here is not a re-dial. Not quite sure about that either.

On black dials I gave up and got a modern black dial

thanks! very helpful...
and I will forever say Dial...and Indices!
and thank you for illuminating me on the "technical" watch. I very much appreciate the guidance.