Help identifying anything interesting about this pocket watch

Hello everybody. I’m Arthur and currently in London for the lockdown. I’ve been on this forum a good few times and very much enjoy the threads and the information/opinions that accompany them. I stumbled back onto the forum last week when I was Googling to see if my pre-Bond sea master was vintage or not.
I’m back today to start a discussion and hopefully gain some info about an Omega pocket watch I bought on eBay a few years ago. I bought it with the intention of using it as my daily timepiece but it stopped telling the time accurately almost instantly.
firstly thanks in advance for anyone willing to share their knowledge on this, anything at all is much appreciated as I really don’t know much about watches. A love of bond and pocket watches led me to the purchase. Also new to forums so not really sure on etiquette. I only visit one other on Norfolk broad cruisers and have never posted. I figure newbies should be polite and grateful wherever possible.
So.... a bit about the watch:
I bought it on eBay about 3yrs ago for about £200 if I remember. It was a moment of madness and as it was just higher than the previous bid I’m hoping it was about right. I know it’s not an ideal way to gauge value. The seller was a watch maker/restorer and said he’d serviced it and it was keeping time well before the sale.
I wound and wore it out a few times but found it stopped dead halfway through the walk each time so popped it in a box on a shelf and left it. I messaged the guy and he said I could send it back and he’d have a look when he had time but I was quite new to eBay and didn’t want him to just refund me and I loose out on the watch so I kept it.
Any info would be amazing, date ,style,popularity,value history etc. Cheers
I looked up the number on the inside of the case 1839843 and a few years back I remember seeing that it may have been manufactured the year Omega became Omega? This time the site dated it at 1985. Perhaps I misread it as 1885 the first time round. I believe the numbers being hidden on the inside of the mechanical part might put it at 1894-1910.
I was hoping to get it serviced and cleaned and ask the person to jot down or photograph the hidden serial number for me as I am thinking about getting an archive extract for it if that’s even possible and a nice chain and giving it to my nephew for his wedding day. Not knowing anything about it or even a rough value it might turn out to be a very poor example and cheaper to buy a nicer one for him. Looking at it myself with no experience I see the glass is pristine which would indicate a replacement and the face is very white and clean also suggesting it’s new-ish. The hands have that nice blue gunmetal colour that I’ve seen on other examples but not on the smallest hand. Is that unusual? Stamped acier which is steel I think. No logo on the face unlike other examples I’ve seen. They might not be too clear in the photos and are barely visible to my eye but there are lots of scratches inside the case back: w857. Af9828k. 7182. Afj82k etc would these be pawnbrokers marks? I wanted to give it a good clean and polish before I gift it although I very much like pea-souper dirty case. Bit of a long post but the guide did say be detailed so here it is. Cheers again! Arthur

I have had a look for the notes I made first time round and the buyers description but no joy

Thanks for that. I’ll have a delve into dials. Cheers

That’s a much appreciated response. Thank you. Very interesting and gives me a lot of points to go and look into. Cheers again

Awesome cheers. The lists I’ve found seem to put the case serial number between 1845-1902 ish as a few lists differ. I read in another thread that the movement serial number occasionally dates it a little later as if the cases were made and kept till the rest was ready. I’ll get it measured. And I did think about the gun metal coating being a corrosion preventative, so a gentle buff it will be.
And yes, all the responses have been excellent and appreciated. I’m going to have a look online and see if getting to the baseplate is something I can manage and see about the other serial number. I managed to refurbish an old Coleman lantern from a car boot sale using YouTube tutorials so we’ll see...

I mistyped. I meant 1894 according to a list I saw for #1,000,000 and 1902 for #2,000,000. So I imagine between those. And yes it’s overkill doing an extract from the archives but if it gets gifted to the nephew and he potentially has it for 50+ years it might make it a nicer package. We’ll see. Cheers

I couldn’t send a link but this was where I read it. Should be able to find it from these

Ok that’s interesting

it looks to be just under 41mm so that’s a 13s i believe?

I was looking for a cleaning cloth as advised and was wondering if anyone had a specific suggestion or experience cleaning a gunmetal case? I looked and found several options under jewellery cleaning cloth. Obviously the gold and silver specific ones but also stainless steel and others with an impregnated first cloth and slightly abrasive secondary buffing cloth. Don’t want to make a schoolboy error and over clean as has been pointed out or are they all much of a muchness with little difference at this level? Cheers. Ooh I gave it a wind yesterday it took about 20 1/2 turns and has only lost a minute in 24hrs. I’ll carry round tomorrow and see how it holds up

Also when I mentioned maybe doing an extract of the archives for it it was mainly to have a sort of official document connected to the watch. I thought seeing where it was delivered to would be nice to know where it’s journey began and it looked awfully impressive in the big red string bound folder signed in person by the CEO etc. But yeah the info here has been far more fun to learn and I gather now the extracts come in a far less grand envelope or even a PDF

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