Help...?!

Me too. Doesn't look like it's worth that much in cash terms, just the sentimental value to me. Probably not worth the cost of Omega doing it, and finding someone else, who I can actually talk to about it.

Listen to people who know. Take your watch back, take your time, look for an independant watchmaker. It is always easy to spend money, but first make sure you want to spend that much.... and get almost a brand new watch with nothing left of what your father and grand father have seen in it for all the years they worn it. Never despise the soul of things.....

From an independent watchmaker point of view.

Omega will repair and restore the dial. I note that they say one marker is loose but there may be other issues with the dial. Hard to say what issues there could be without a photo but, a non Omega dial restoration and repaint is likely to be £250. Perhaps it's just the loose marker and it might be possible to re-rivet that but not all watchmakers will take that on. In that case, the cost is minimal.

A new Omega crystal and crown could easily be £100+.

If the movement needs parts then it could be £400-500 all in, especially if there is corrosion but as low as £200 if it's a simple service (with some people).

Although I'm not really taking work on except for locals, I have an Omega here at the moment, a sixties 550 series automatic which needs a lot of parts and the cost of those will be hundreds of pounds, and that's on top of my service cost. There was a lot of corrosion and parts needed - Omega may be able to include many new parts for a movement within a fixed price but that's not true for most of us.

Just trying to point out that getting the watch back from Omega and finding a UK watchmaker may result in a bill for £300 or one much closer to the Omega quote.

Good luck, Chris

An 620 cal can be had for $50 by the way, you just need to find the right ladies watch to buy

You can take that movement to a regular watchmaker and it'll likely be a 200 pound operation in UK, it's 10 pounds in Turkey 😁

I bought 3 of em for 60GBP in total off an auction, they are dirt cheap on fleabay as well.

So, in theory a watch can be "totaled" like a car can be totaled. At that point it is a keepsake or parts machine.

Do you plan on wearing it? That's the real question before you spend money on the restoration.

Find a clean movement on Ebay and just swap it out. Keep the original or just clean it (will have to clean the Ebay one also if you buy)

Dial and hands. Can't say until pictures are posted

DON