Just agreed to buy this piece--seller did not have pictures of the inside caseback or movement, but I took a risk on the auction. What do you guys think (photos from the listing)? Based on my research it looks like a 105.005 or a 145.005, consistent with the seller's statement it was his dad's watch dating from the 1960s. I think this is very likely to house a 321 movement since the 861's I've seen in an applied-logo Seamaster chrono all have different lugs than these straight ones, which are found in the 321 Seamasters. I'll update when I get the watch and take it to a shop to open it up!
Thanks for taking a look! I had the thought as well but the original seller at least had not had the redial done (obviously neither of us can speak to what his father might have done in the 60s or 70s with the watch). Do you see any telltale signs of a redial other than the fact that it's quite clean for its age? I had the thought as well but in comparing it to images of 145.005's online I wasn't able to discern anything "off" about it.
I have a 145.018, slightly different perhaps but from a similar era. Mine is pre TTs. The OP has TTs. Lots of similarities however.
The dial has definitely been redialed. One of the more obvious signs is evident in the subdials. Compare closely. Your subdials are more rounded on the outside, which is typical or redials, and the font is off. Also, there is a strange "bump" where the flat and diagonal parts of the subdial meet.
I briefly considered this one but the dial put me off. Subdials, Seamaster text, lines too thick etc. I don't think it would have sold quite so cheap had the dial been better so you didn't get a terrible deal imo.
