Help For Omega 166.073

Hello All-

Brand new to the forum as well as Omega.
Found this deep blue for a fair price and had to have it.
The dial has about 5 small "bubbles" in the face that are very hard to see.
I found an original Tritium old stock dial which I purchased as well.
My questions are:
Would you relume the original face or have it replaced?
The hands need to relumed or replaced with new old stock which I figure will be next to impossible to locate. Thoughts on simply reluming the hands and who is the best individual to handle?
The end links are incorrect. Any thoughts on where to find proper ones or any from a different brand watch that would fit?
Open to other comments or thoughts on the watch as a whole.
Thanks in advance!
Todd

Once you start refinishing the dial. You have to keep going, so everything matches.

You can't just redo the hands. You will need to have the hands re-plated. The new luminous will not match the insert, so now it just starts to look odd

Already looks like someone replaced the minute hand luminous. Different than the hour which matches the indexes

If you can find someone to do the minute hand and match to the rest of the watch. That's all I would do

DON

There are some pretty talented people out there who would relume your dial and hands to match. Is it the "bubbles" on the dial that annoy you or the lume colour?

Also appears to be a lot of dirty in the chapter ring area or between the crystal and the bezel. I'd give the whole thing a spa day when you have the chance. Beautiful watch though.

Don & Julian-
Your both pretty much saying the same thing which makes complete sense.
The bubbling on the dial does not bother me at all.
Would you clarify what "insert" means?
If I could find someone qualified to relume the face/hands (along with replate), polish the crystal and clean at the same time then that would be fine.
Hard to tell in the pic but the marker on the face at 50 was relumed at some point.
Any suggestions on who could relume?
Dan-
I'd have to look back in some paperwork to see what style bracelet it is. I think it was on the list of correct bracelets which was on this site but cannot be certain.
Thanks

The insert is the dive ring around the outside in the bezel. When I bought Seamaster 300's 20 years ago. I would remove the insert and repair the luminous (which got damaged from diving)

In order to hold it's value. I would only fix the minute hand

Next would be to remove the luminous from both hands. Clean them, rhodium plate them and then redo the luminous. Trick is to match to the dial luminous.

Want to see a neat trick?

Luminous on my ex vintage Tudor is actually paint. Dial was badly damaged and I wanted a nice vintage aged tritium look. Refinisher painted the indexes and supplied me with extra paint and I repaired the hour hand



With paint. You can do anything to match colors and with the Sherwin Williams color match system. Can probably find the color you need

https://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/color-tools/colorsnap-mobile

DON

Don-

Will follow your advice as I don't want to dimish value.
Would love to have one with almost perfect lume but that would have entailed paying for what you get!
The Tudor is beautiful! My hat is off to you on the paint job.
Any thought on how to locate proper end links?