Your eyes and memory are amazing!
Hi TNT
Thanks, my wife would disagree !!! I am getting old , as I used to be able to recall production numbers dates reference numbers etc while walking thru NAWCC WATCH SHOWS ETC.
But the best time was when I went to the Omega museum back in 97. I walked the museum w John D. I was not aware of the other person working in the far side of the room. But he overheard my comments to John and how I was identifying other movements and references as I was walking from case to case. The " other " person became very courious who I was and came over. He introduced himself , it was Marco Richon head curator of the OM. He asked to make sure I was American and we both laughed. He was impressed with my knowledge base of the subject. I did ask if he ( I forget the ref now) it was the largest time only watch Omega made (excluding the railmaster xxl , not sure of when the rail was released ). Never the less it was like a 44 mm manual wind watch from the 30's . Marco thought for a second and he said we don't have one on display , BUT I will be right back !
He came back a few mins later with two as found examples unrestored ! It was a great experience .
Also Gemni sorry I did not have time to point out all details as TNT did with the back engraving ..
Good Hunting
Best
Bill Sohne
Your gentlemen's good eyes made me look more closely at
@gemini4's case back, and I found reasons to believe it is not a genuine back:
-Beside the thick medallion stamping, there are several wrong details on the seahorse: the eye is angry, the curve from the eye to the ear is crude, and missing an upside down Y on the front leg/fin.
-The inside engraving is also crude, with the wrong Ω symbol. Most clearly, the perlage pattern looks just like that on the back of many of the fake Constellation 14900/14902. On the real back the swirl marks are overlapped everywhere while on the fake one, there's a separation between the flat area and the slope area.
By extension, the mid case without those notches is also fake along with the shiny bezel. It's disappointed for
@gemini4 to have found this result, but you've really helped everyone by pointing out the missing notches on the case. Thumbs up for you!
While I have found very little wrong with the dial of the watch in the OP, I've found a 166.027
sold last year on ebayPurchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network for near $1k that has fake case, fake bezel, fake back and also a fake dial too. The clue for the dial is in the crude date window surround - just like that on those fake Constellation and unlike the real one like Cristo's. Looking back the history of this seller turns up a couple of Chronostops with fake dial and a couple franken fake 105.003's that look just similar to those franken fake 145.022-69's popping up recently. And this seller is from California too.
So there you go, fake vintage SM 120 has arrived, and for sometime already, along with fake vintage Speedy's.
This is a fake dial:
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These are genuine case back with the overlapped swirl marks:
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