The coloring of the parts is always something to look at with vintage Omegas. On this example, the rotor and bridge look to be the same color, which the rest of the movement is more "pink". This tells me that somwhere there is another 551 or 561 movement that was cleaned with lighter fluid (that's one of the ways the color gets stripped out like that) that's missing its autowind parts. Although the seller is located in my hometown, this watch has all the earmarks of a "Mumbai Special", that is a watch that was assembled from genuine parts in an Indian horological chop shop.
The case wear on this one seems to be extreme. Some idiot took a wire brush polisher to the whole back of the watch to remove some scratches. The black dial might well be original, but the original lume has been removed. Same is true of the hands.
The wear on even a heavily used watch is going to be uniform and even. Patina on movement parts should be also be uniform if major parts replacement were not necessary.
This example just rubs me the wrong way, even though I do think the dial may be correct.
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