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Here what I’ve noticed and my opinion others will follow up I’m sure.
The dial looks poorly touched up especially the wording “chronometer n officially “ tho unclear the poor photos and possible scratches on the crystal make this look worse without a clear photo of the dial you aren’t going to tell 100% what you’re actually buying the movement looks clean to clean, looks to have been polished up on the rotor weight and bridge, bracelet isn’t genuine and for 650 euro you can definitely find a better example.
Dial is DEFINITELY a redial
looks to have been polished up on the rotor weight and bridge, bracelet isn’t genuine and for 650 euro you can definitely find a better example.
I too don't think that is a redial. It shows no obvious tells. The S in Seamaster may look screwy but that is how they were in the the early 50s.
I thought it was pretty clear that it was repainted, but I'm interested to hear how much the above differ in opinion. The top text seems to switch between 'boldness' between each word? Even officially and certified are different font weight.
The photos are terrible, and it appears that the dial has been tampered with, possibly cleaned or touched up. But the overall two-tone finish looks legit to me.
It VERY much looks to me like the area under the omega logo has been re-painted.
It VERY much looks to me like the area under the omega logo has been re-painted. My suspicion is as you said, a dial that was cleaned, and needed the text fixed. We've always considered that a 're-dial' (we follow a bit of a 'one touch of not factory->redial' rule it seems), so I've said that.
Ah. I‘d say it would be fair to mention those details - just saying that it’s „DEFINITELY“ a redial, in caps (!), gives a wrong picture in my opinion. We got a couple blurry pics of what could be a touch-up or dirt / glue around the Omega logo and in addition you have a suspicion. My impression is that usually around here, when people say that a dial was „DEFINITELY redialed“, they mean something very different.
We seem to use it interchangeably for repainted as well, so that is what I did.
I didn’t. I think that someone took the dial, removed the markers and lacquer damaging some of the printing in the process, then replaced the hardware.
IMO, still original printing, but damaged.
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