My grandmother recently found her brothers old watch who used to live in San Francisco. I noticed I said omega on the front and is a wind up with sweeping movement. It’s not stamped Omega but engraved on the back. I think I might be a fake. Can anyone help?

 

I think you are correct in your assumption.

 

Update. She has had it 30 odd years and he wore it in the 60s early 70s, so possibly bought in the early 60s?

 

It's still a fake, but now you know the vintage.

 

I think I am also, but wasn’t sure since It hasn’t been stamped. I didn’t realise these watches had been so havily faked even back then!

 

Is this copied off a actual model or just a bodge job?

 

Unfortunately, watches have been faked for over a hundred years. Many of the Omega fakes blossomed after WW2 when the popularity of the brand and the quality attached to the name attracted those who sought a quick dollar by "rebranding" other lesser watches. The 1950s/1960s were two great decades for "vintage" fakes".

 

It's not even a good copy of a contemporary Omega watch. Just some generic ladies watch stamped with some other organisations' trade marks.