Spoonta66
路Hello all,
I pulled this out of my storage recently, and to be honest I cannot remember when or where I got it.
Is this watch as rare and collectable as I think it is? It seems to be all original i.e. movement, case, crown, dial etc. and is in amazing, seemingly unpolished condition. I have been told a reference with the combination of movement and physical features, in its current condition, is a true "rarest of the rare" and a collector's grail watch for WW2 era military watches? I have also been advised it is a museum grade rarity and condition? Surely I didn't have something this rare sitting in a box forgotten.... There seems to be no existing versions of this watch in any open, public digital archives but is a legitimate Omega configuration with less than 200 models ever produced but not confirmed and no publicly confirmed surviving versions and may possibly now be a 1 of 1 left surviving?
I have done some research and found the following:
Year: 1944
Reference: 2300/7
Movement: 23.4SC
Serial: 10495973
Case: 30mm stainless steel with rose gold bezel
Dial: Gold/copper alloy plated brass with black bullseye / sector two-tone dial
Buckle: 1950's / 1960's replacement Omega buckle?
Due to the features, the central seconds movement, two tone dial and year of manafacture it seems to be a high end version of the "Medicus" family from Omega produced mostly for military medical personal and officially Omega's very first center seconds movement ever produced. This was allegedly also one of the last models to use the 23.4SC calibre before changing to the calibre 310 in the mid-late 1940's.
What the hell do I do with this this thing 馃ぃ馃ぃ
I pulled this out of my storage recently, and to be honest I cannot remember when or where I got it.
Is this watch as rare and collectable as I think it is? It seems to be all original i.e. movement, case, crown, dial etc. and is in amazing, seemingly unpolished condition. I have been told a reference with the combination of movement and physical features, in its current condition, is a true "rarest of the rare" and a collector's grail watch for WW2 era military watches? I have also been advised it is a museum grade rarity and condition? Surely I didn't have something this rare sitting in a box forgotten.... There seems to be no existing versions of this watch in any open, public digital archives but is a legitimate Omega configuration with less than 200 models ever produced but not confirmed and no publicly confirmed surviving versions and may possibly now be a 1 of 1 left surviving?
I have done some research and found the following:
Year: 1944
Reference: 2300/7
Movement: 23.4SC
Serial: 10495973
Case: 30mm stainless steel with rose gold bezel
Dial: Gold/copper alloy plated brass with black bullseye / sector two-tone dial
Buckle: 1950's / 1960's replacement Omega buckle?
Due to the features, the central seconds movement, two tone dial and year of manafacture it seems to be a high end version of the "Medicus" family from Omega produced mostly for military medical personal and officially Omega's very first center seconds movement ever produced. This was allegedly also one of the last models to use the 23.4SC calibre before changing to the calibre 310 in the mid-late 1940's.
What the hell do I do with this this thing 馃ぃ馃ぃ
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