Hello guys!

I am new here. Since I left my parents house a few years ago, I have been carrying a lot of random items that I buy at flea markets. One of the curious objects that I have acquired was an Omega pocket watch. It has a 200 Reis portuguese coin attatched from 1909. I assume that the watch is from around the same data.

So I am at home with some friends and the topic "random cool things that we buy" comes up.
I want to know two things: It's value and "Do you guys know if I can track the story of this watch?"

As you may see from the pictures below, it has that number on the back but nothing else engraved on it.










I love stories. And specially trying to get back on time and finding out who might owned it, I don't even know if that is possible. I got it in Portugal but it might have come from another place, maybe. Honesty it wouldn't surprise me if there was no Omega in Portugal at that time since we only have beach, good food and cool people.
I don't want to take it to a store here because I am afraid that it disappear or something.
(One time I tried to know more about it and the lady at the Jewelry Store told me if She could keep it for a day.)


Thanks!

 

Circa 1912 by the serial numbers. Can you get a picture of the movement?

 

Uggggh, i am trying to upload it here but it's failing. Is it important?

 

It helps determine if its original and what type of movement it is. Perhaps if you can read the numbers you can type them here.

 

you mean like opening the back part? i am such a noob. sorry.

 

Yes. The movement is behind the back plate. A watchsmith should be able to open it for you.

 

Whoa really? that's cool. you should call it paris-texas watch!!!
Well its going to rest in my drawer of cool things, I was and I am so curious about it. What's that archive thing?

 

The archive is a service through omega. You supply them with all the serial numbers from your watch and they trace it back to its build date. They give you as much info as they can about it. I've never done it but I think it's mildly expensive for a watch that you probably didn't pay much for.
Just having the back pulled off and those numbers would be a much cheaper alternative. You would need to do that anyway to have the archival search done.

 

Could the glass/crystal still be replaced today? I wonder if you can get a closer pic of the Omega logo and letters on the dial?

 

The dial looks quite a lot like my Omega trench wristwatch from around 1912, with obvious differences in the tracks: