Help: Oméga 1942 , identification et authentification

MickaDjr · Wed. 1:53pm

Bonjour à tous ! Je recherche de l'aide pour identifier une montre Omega dont je viens de faire l'acquisition. Selon mes recherches, le mouvement daterait de la fin 1942-début 1943. Mais le logo Omega et le poinçon ou 9 carats apposés dans le fond du boîtier me questionnent. Mes recherches supposent une fabrication dans l'empire britannique d'époque et probablement l'Australie qui aurait utilisé ces poinçons au-delà des années 30-40 alors que la suisse adoptait déjà le logo triangulaire que nous connaissons aujourd'hui.
Merci mille fois de votre aide.
Bien à vous.
Mickaël

Kesar · 2026-11-12T13:32:09-0600

Bonjour, vous avez la réponse un peu plus haut.

https://omegaforums.net/posts/2641978/

MickaDjr · Wed. 2:18pm

gatorcpa
@MickaDjr -

Unfortunately, most of our members do not speak French so it will be difficult for them to respond to your questions.

I have taken the liberty of using an online translator so that people may understand you.

I realize that you may have an automated translation app on your computer or phone. You may want to turn that off when writing on this board.

Hope this helps,
gatorcpa

Dear @gatorcpa many thanks for your post and information. You are right my phone automaticaly do the translation for me! Let’s switch in english so 😉 Thank you !

C'est un boîtier fabriqué en Australie

MickaDjr · 2026-11-12T13:50:03-0600

Kesar
Bonjour, vous avez la réponse un peu plus haut.

https://omegaforums.net/posts/2641978/

MickaDjr · Wed. 2:18pm

gatorcpa
@MickaDjr -

Unfortunately, most of our members do not speak French so it will be difficult for them to respond to your questions.

I have taken the liberty of using an online translator so that people may understand you.

I realize that you may have an automated translation app on your computer or phone. You may want to turn that off when writing on this board.

Hope this helps,
gatorcpa

Dear @gatorcpa many thanks for your post and information. You are right my phone automaticaly do the translation for me! Let’s switch in english so 😉 Thank you !

C'est un boîtier fabriqué en Australie

Dear Kesar, thank you for your answer. I saw this forum but I would like to find some official or historical évidences to make more robust this assumption. I didn’t find in the flow of the discussion you mentionned any link to any historical document explaining that.

Many thanks again for your help !

Kesar · 2026-11-13T01:56:08-0600

I think it will be very difficult to find official documentation, but there is a lot of evidence pointing to Australia—and more specifically to Handley as the manufacturer. In general, 9-carat cases are associated with the British Empire. The Omega stamp on the case is usually associated with Handley, which was Australia’s largest manufacturer of watch cases.

https://omegaforums.net/threads/possible-australian-market-9ct-gold-omega.167912/

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