The most beautiful giant sized ( 36mm) Omega we have owned for a long time. From 1953, in spectacular 18 karat pink gold with a honeycomb dial.

Interestingly, this item has a French made case. Post-war, it was illegal to import gold into France for non-essential use until the mid-1950s, with the consequence that the major Swiss movement makers like Omega and Rolex had to ship uncased movements to their French agents, who would then case these in domestically made housings. Quality of this case is superb, and certainly the equal of anything coming out of Switzerland at the same time.

Totally original hand wound calibre 266 movement. Launched in 1950, this was part of the celebrated 30mm series that had made its debut in 1939. This series of movements was fitted to the pilots' watches supplied by Omega to the British RAF during World War II and is regarded by purists as possibly the finest hand wound movement series of all time, by any maker.

This movement is absolutely original with no changed parts. Its serial number dates this unit to 1953.
We just don't see these oversized Omegas on a regular basis now. In the last twelve months, we have been lucky to own two in steel, but this is the first we have bought in 18 karat gold in perhaps five or six years. The watch is an outstanding item that will delight the advanced Omega collector.
Priced at £2485 pounds.

 

there's some answers here: https://omegaforums.net/threads/omega-53-36mm-18k-pink-gold-re-any-thoughts-on-this-photos.40451/

 

That's a big load of French gold bollocks, truthfully...

 

A truthful answer?? If that is your price, maybe the post needs to be moved to the wishful thinking/unrealistic seller posts.

 

So basically this is a sales pitch....subtle.

 

Does that line actually work?

 

I think you posted in the wrong place. I think you ment to post in the for sale forum.
We all make mistakes I guess, especially with only 10 posts...oh I get it now.

 

Thanks guys 'n' gals, I cancelled the payment and my bank never sent the money. Am I allowed to say who was trying to sell it to me?

 

Did you just copy/paste the sales ad? It might have been clearer if you had explained that you were trying to buy this and cut some of the nonsense sales pitch out

 

Of course you are.

 

@alanadel
Id suggest you use a different style when asking a question about a listing. When you simple copy and paste an ad with no other details it appears that you are the seller. Quite frankly, I suspect you are the seller...but if you aren't then trying using some common sense when posting.

The fact that you only posted the sales copy and included the original hi res images attached separately makes this look like a for-sale ad, which is clearly not allowed on this forum.

Why don't you try editing your post if you aren't the seller so its clear what your intentions are.

I noticed you used this same odd style in several other forums.

 

Apologies, I'm new at this. I have a pal who was showing me a vintage watch on holiday and I got very excited by all of this. Here is the watch seller:
http://www.vintage-watches-collection.com

They sent me some emails of new watches because I asked them to and this was one of the watches. I thought it looked amazing and was ready to buy it. After poking around online a lot I saw something that suggested that I post on a forum to get proper opinions. I'm very glad I did. Sorry for my format, I should've made it clearer what was going on. So, did I miss out on this watch or have I dodged an expensive bullet. It seems to me that I've dodged a bullet given some of the responses.

 

And yes, you're right I did exactly the same in another forum. Just one other - watchuseek. Again, apologies. So - where are reliable and trustworthy places to seek out vintage watches without losing my shirt?

 

Here, hoodinkee, hqmilton.

As to losing your shirt you get what you pay for. There are great pieces for all budgets but the more desirable ones are priced by the market so if you get a great "deal" you're probably not getting the real deal.

 

You dodged a very large bullet indeed, £2485!

That watch was awful and I don't think worth more than £300 or £400 top line. I personally think the seller ( who although very eloquent and helpful sounding in his watch sales descriptions has quite a poor reputation if you do some digging ) possibly knows what a POS it is and purposely doesn't have it on his website, saving it for some poor, naive noob to get taxed with.

You can better have a look at the sales forum here.

 

Why is every thing pink gold except the hands. Maybe it is for blind people.
Anyway for that money you can have mine, 37 mm without crown and a Swiss case.

 

Thanks! To Everyone!
So glad. I literally stumbled on a site called something like - "a novice's guide to buying vintage watches" and one of the pieces of advice was to post on a forum and see what people thought. Very happy I did

 

This one as well as the OP's do not have the official Argentine or Brazilian "Industria" hallmarks. Nor do they have the same standardized styling or inside/outside positioning. They actually mimic Swiss hallmark styling - if the makers are not Swiss, why pretend to be Swiss while those countries already have their own standards? So I doubt if they really originated from those countries. Until there are documented provenance, the best could be said about them is they are unknown custom case - with unknown gold content from unknown makers.

PS: I think Bill just suggested another way to do a better sale pitch. He did not exactly say he believed the case was from South America.