Hi all, So I recently received back my 1956 omega seamaster automatic from omega and due to the age I don't have any paperwork. Omega have given me some paperwork that confirms the serial number (155...) and that it is a CK2913 but the internet tells me there is another 2million number I need/should have and furthermore the CK2913 should have another dash digit after it e.g. CK2913-1 . How do I find these numbers out without opening the watch up or is that impossible ? And if omega have just stated CK2913 on the paperwork does that mean it is an original with no dash digit ?? Furthermore would you trust someone other than omega to open the watch to get these numbers or not as it has to go back to Switzerland for any work so takes ages ? Lastly I know you can't give valuations but what do you think this is worth roughly in this condition ? P.s. I know the hands are not the correct hands for this model but they have been confirmed as original 1956 hands so at some point before 1980 they had these hands added and all I know is the watch is all original. It was handed down from grandfather to farther to me so therefore there is no paperwork and no history with it as all previous keepers have since past away.
You can open the back yourself or a watchmaker can do it. The hands are totally wrong in case it is a 2913. They come from later 165.024 around 1966 The lume looks like it was replaced somewhen
I am more concerned about where you got the 1956 date. Unless I am very much mistaken the SM300 2913 wasn’t launched until 1957.
Reference tables state 15m serial as 1956 so I imagine that's where the '56 came from. I have a 2913 1570**** serial that is confirmed as March '58 via extract. Extracts only state 2913, the -1 -2 -3 etc will stamped inside your case back.
Is that radium burn around the hour markers? Looks Relumed. Lovely watch regardless, despite being wring hands it still gives it a cool look imho.
Here is a circa 1959 brochure on the Seamaster 300: Hands should be the “broad arrow” type. If Omega serviced the watch, they may have replaced them. Very nice looking example. gatorcpa
Can you post a photo of the back of the watch? We might be able to narrow down the sub reference from that.
The dark sections surrounding the lume plots could be from some sort of lacquer used to stabilize lume plots.