Help Wanted! Advice on a vintage Omega Railmaster

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Sorry to bother you Redcar, do you think it’s worth sending to Omega for a service ?

I understand a very good watchmaker may be just fine. I thought just more so I have a receipt from Omega themselves to say what has and hasn’t been done and it has a bit of paper to go with it rather than fully naked.

I just worry that they may change original parts for new parts which as mentioned previously takes the ‘ originality and vintage ‘ completely away from it if it has ‘ modern ‘ parts .. I’m guessing ?
I absolutely would not send it to Omega. People on this site can help you with watchmakers in your area who are better suited to service a vintage Omega and keep the 'vintage' appeal.
If you are looking at simply flipping the watch, you are better off selling as is on ebay. You will not get the money back from a full service. Let someone else do the work for a potentially beautiful Railmaster.
 
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If you are selling it don't do anything at all- no polishing, cleaning, servicing- mothing, just sell it online and post good quality photos straight up dial , back and all sides of the watch, as a collector will buy it with their own restoration plans. The photos you posted here are poor, if you can get better photos your sale will go better.
 
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I agree. If you plan to sell it, probably best to sell it in as-is, as-found condition. A purchaser/ collector can then have performed whatever restoration work deemed appropriate.