Beornottobe
·Hi esteem members of the forum. I recently went through a short attempt to restore this seamaster back to its original form as much as my knowledge goes. Please help me evaluate any short coming or tips on this piece, thank. A few month back I purchased this seamater 166.020 at the price of around 300$. It was running but with power reserve of around 5 hours and a large error of around 10 minutes - per day.
As any enthusiastic watch collector would do, I took it to the shop, found out the Caliber 565 main spring was broken, date quick-set mechanism was lost, spent around 100$ to fix everything. Now it is running fairly accurate at around 2-3 sec+-/day and most importantly I can double-pull the crown to adjust the date, really neat, I haven't seen this kind of mechanism before.
As I dived deep into the detail of this serial, I then found out that the dial is not original and the hands were not of the same color pattern, it was pink-gold. It took me around 2-3 months to sought out the correct dial and brought it along with the beat-up buckle (not sure about its original) and hands (which I still think is not the correct set) with the total price of around180$.
And Valla! here is my finished first amateur's attempt to restore an omega watch, now with the total damage of 580$. Please comment about the condition and suggest any think to your liking, hope you guys have a great time!
As any enthusiastic watch collector would do, I took it to the shop, found out the Caliber 565 main spring was broken, date quick-set mechanism was lost, spent around 100$ to fix everything. Now it is running fairly accurate at around 2-3 sec+-/day and most importantly I can double-pull the crown to adjust the date, really neat, I haven't seen this kind of mechanism before.
As I dived deep into the detail of this serial, I then found out that the dial is not original and the hands were not of the same color pattern, it was pink-gold. It took me around 2-3 months to sought out the correct dial and brought it along with the beat-up buckle (not sure about its original) and hands (which I still think is not the correct set) with the total price of around180$.
And Valla! here is my finished first amateur's attempt to restore an omega watch, now with the total damage of 580$. Please comment about the condition and suggest any think to your liking, hope you guys have a great time!