Hi!

Just got this one home, and trying to find more information about it. I know it is not a collectors piece but I like these old Omega's and would like to find as much information as possible.

Serial: movement 8657625, case 9515199 so around 1937.
Movement 26.5 SOB T2
Case 30,5 mm. without the crown.

I would like to find the reference nummer and maybe some old katalogs with this one.

I have found one in a 1937 Swedish katalog, the one in the middle (Tavla = Dial) dont know if it could be the right one, i guess they were made with different dial and hands combinations.

There is a thin layer of lumen (none of the lumen is working anymore) on the hands, and i have seems similar hands from that period with lumen on, can it have been like that from Omega or added later? I will have it serviced and will get the lumen on the hands removed if it is incorrect.

Thanks Thomas

 

Can't help you out, but great watch. Congrats

 

You've got a gem there. Great watch to bring in the new year.

 

Hi,
It's a CK816, a model that was very popular and a lot of the 26.5 that can be found today are of this reference;
Here is an example of CK 816 in a 1936 catalog :


One of mines has the same dial as yours, however non luminous (I think that the lume on both the dial and the hands of your watch is not factory original) :

 

Do the fonts look correct? Particular in the case of the letter E?

 

On which one?

 

That is really a beautiful piece. Enjoy it!

 

tdn-dk one

 

Thanks. It have been turned over to my watchmaker for service. I can not say for sure if it have been relumend but if it has it have been done very well. And for the CK 816 it was possible to those between radium lumen og none, so it have been made with lumen.

 

What are the experts verdict regarding the originality of the dial? I am undecided, although the E looks a bit off to me. I could be wrong, nice looking watch though.

 

Hi,
The radium dial advertised in the catalog is this one, clasical for the CK816 (no more radium on this one):


All radium hands I've seen from Omega during this period had the skeletton structure filled with luminous paint, I have never seen plain metal hands with a layer of paint on it. That's why i doubt that it is Omega factory original. Could have been a modification at the request of an AD or a customer, made by a profesionnal.

 

Another font question: I'm noticing the "A" in the "Omega" of the OP watch has a pointed top instead of a cut-off /flat top.
having spent the better part of a year looking for a particular 1940s Omega, I thought the "A" at least on certain models of that era was supposed to have a flat top -- as in both of Tire Comedon's examples.
Isn't that true for all models of that period? I could be wrong of course.

Best regards,
S

 

Not necessarily. Here is an original one probably 1943-44 [date edited, I checked with the case serial]. It also has the dissymetric E as on TDN-DK's :

 

Thanks for clarifying. Those are beautiful dials - both in the OP and the others posted.

 

*SIGH* nearly bought a 2008 about six months ago.

Congratulations on your purchase. It is a beauty. Wear it with joy in good health.

 

What a great thread, thanks to everyone contributing. Bought this one today, very very similar if not identical to the one above. Thought it might shed some further light on the subject. Bought it from the original owners niece,

 

Cool, and it has the same lumen on the hands so I think it was original then, and not applied later.