FS: Omega 1959's Ranchero - White dial


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By: Alex83
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USD 11,500
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apart from the incorrect crown and the mark on the dial at 7:30 (radium burn?)...looks pretty good!

 

Maybee the light, but writing looks thicker than mine

 

Excuse me you are breaking the one ranchero per OF member rule

 

Which one is for sale? ;-)

 

Nope none one for wearing, one for reserve when the one I wear is for service and one for spareparts, no less than 3 is needed
I consider selling if get a number 4.

 

Fantastic piece, however for sale already for quite some time

 

Is any of these dials restored? There is currently a white one on Chrono24 and the seller mentioned that it got restored in 2009 by Omega. A white Ranchero recently sold on EBAY looked so perfectly clean that I was in the end not sure whether the dial was in orginal or restored condition. Do you have some insights?

 

No there are original dials with radium indexs and hands. Omega would not touch a radium dial i think, so sending a Ranchero to Omega I would think they got the dial restored, but I have never seen a Omega restored dial that looked identical to the original. Could you post a picture of the Omega restored dial?

 

This is the one on Chrono24, I am referring to: https://www.chrono24.de/omega/ranchero--id9285561.htm
Again, I do not know whether it has a refurbished or original dial. It is simply that the dial is such shiny bright and white, that it would be the best one I have ever seen for years.
The seller has not yet answered to my request yet whether the Omega service a couple of years ago also covered the dial - the seller indicated to have the receipt at hand.
If it is not an original dial, than this would be the first copy that looks totally original to me.
The only thing I can not judge is the quality of the luminous paint (structure, grain size, height of paint).
What do you think?

 

Surely a redial




This is one of mine



You can find a lot of differences. The writing is much thinker on the C24, the subdial almost filled with paint and dont have the sharp edge. The index on the subdial. But it is one of the better redials.

 

Second one is fake, you should directly send it to me ;-)))))
Back to the C24 one: Agreed, although the depth of the subdial is extremely hard to judge. On the last pic it seems that the edge throws the correct shaddow. Thickness of the writing indeed appears non-typical.
Did you see this one on EBAY: https://www.ebay.de/itm/Omega-Ranch...=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network
What do you think about it?

 

Actually the quality of the C24-dial scares me, since up to now I have only been aware of these bad redials with no grooved sub-dial, with silver shining lumnious paint, sub-dial indizes that were not touching the edge, or the minute ones that had the lenght of the black-dialed ones or arabic numbers with serifs. In the future, only a Geiger might tell the full story ;-(

 

In my mind the chrono 24 watch is a redial since the lettering does not look the same to my eye and the batons are shorter and wider.

 

Man, the more I look at it the more fantastic it is.

Got it confirmed that the dial has been refurbished by Omega.

 

Man, this one makes me jealous. ;-)