I am considering buying this nice peace, but wonder how original it is, hopefully not to much frankenstein? very good pictures in the ad: http://www.finn.no/87414170

 

Hello there. I would run far and fast from that one. The dial, while not necessarily, errr, ugly, never left an Omega factory like that. The multiple shades of color comprising the movement may be suspect as well. You can do much better.

 

Not good as @Gordon Heavyfoot notes.

Here's my 166.002 dial for comparison, the one above is a 166.001 which is a similar model. Look at the thickness of the fonts and how the whole design seems to hang together. Difficult to get these black 1960s dials in good condition.


Movement has not been treated well and is not clean as well as having that mismatched rotor.


Cheers, Chris

 

I can see that the pointers does not look good, but I think the serialnumber match and if the restoration is done OK, then the price of Euro1300,- might be Ok?

 

Thanks Chris for the thorough check! I guess I will pass on this.

 

If you'd like you can send me the 1300EU. I'll take 700 of it and find you a very nice example for 500. We're both happy. :-P
In all seriousness, for 1300 euros you should be able to find a killer black dialed Seamaster, probably in solid gold. It just may take some patience. Good luck to you.

 

The other 100 Euros that my vestigial math skills left could go to a charity.

 

No. It's a stainless steel Seamaster, you can get very good, original, examples for $700-$800.

 

Hehe, thanks a lot for the clear advice!

 

I think 500 euros is very optimistic but 700-800 euros is more realistic for a stainless steel, black dialed, head only possibly needing a service from the 1960s. You don't see many black dialed Omegas from this period in good condition.

This looks a nice watch and being a bumper with an unusual dial is more interesting than a 550 series to me.

Regards, Chris

 

I wholeheartedly agree. I was looking at that watch yesterday in the FS section. It's a looker, with that beautiful and unusual textured dial. If I wasn't in financial lockdown mode because of the upcoming holidays I'd be seriously considering pulling the trigger on that one myself.

 

The seller says that the watch was serviced in 2016. A good reminder as to why you have to get your watch serviced yourself no matter what the ads say.

 

Man, the n00bs can sure find the overpriced, over polished "ooooo, shiny!" redialed franken watches, can't they? Especially the black dialed ones - Don Draper syndrome might never get cured.

Oh, and if it was properly serviced why is the original yellow gasket still in it?

 

Yeah, sorry for beeing a n00b, (I truly am and thanks very much for the great help from you professionals! There is probably no quick and easy way to buy a pure vintage that looks new ;-)

 

for the simple reason that it should not look new

 

Looking new kind of takes the vintage out of a vintage watch.

 

Aftermarket yellow gaskets are out there, though uncommon. I've seen them used in a completely different application... Red gaskets are more common in watches. Have seen blue ones too

 

Yes but the gasket shown in these pics is clearly old and deformed...so IMO not a proper service if the gasket hasn't been changed.

 

Yep. It's certainly not of the variety I've seen, which was in dairy plumbing