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  1. PaulHelmuth Jan 26, 2020

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    Greetings All,

    So this is actually the second vintage Omega that I purchased (though I posted the third before this one).

    The reason that I posted the 3rd one (ref. 14713) before this one - is that it was another 30 mm (Cal. 268) and this is a Cal 620 (ref. 111.0004).

    I wanted to get a little more experience with the vintage Omega movements before attempting anything with the 620. It's size (small) was very intimidating and it's yet another movement that I haven't seen before.

    Fortunate or not - I didn't take as many pictures of this as I would have liked. First, because I was more concerned about what I was doing than taking pictures - and secondly, because I ended up doing almost everything under the microscope - and since I can't easily take usable pictures with my "scope" - switching back and forth between pictures and working was a hassle.

    This watch was an eBay "win". Auctioned by Goodwill of southern NJ and PA. They didn't post very good photos - so I won with a bid of $183.50. I assume that's at least a bit below market for this - but don't really know.

    Here are the auction listing pics...
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    After receiving the watch, I was really happy to find that the photos weren't hiding anything. Overall, I consider it to be in really nice shape.

    A quick look on the timegrapher showed less than stellar traces - but not terrible either. Sorry, but I don't have any "before" pics. The traces weren't all over the place - but they weren't straight lines either.

    I was hoping a little cleaning would take care of it - and spoiler alert - I think it did.

    As I stripped the watch, my impression was that it was really clean (and it was) - and the oil was liquid and clean. Was probably a little over-oiled in most spots.

    The one exception is - the escape wheel! :eek:

    The escape wheel had enough oil on it to drowned a small mammal. Consequently, it had a truck load of crap stuck to it. So, that ended up being the main "correction".

    Here are the pics that I did take - for what they are worth. Focus on some is a little off - but still get a decent sense of the parts...
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    If you look closely at this pic - you can see a huge piece of crap stuck to a leg of the escape wheel on the exit side. There were actually a few such pieces "attached" (only by the oil) to the escape wheel. Yet the rest of the movement was very clean.
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    Following a little adjustment and reassembly - the traces now look great by comparison to where they started.
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    -Paul
     
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  2. lindo Jan 27, 2020

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    Small IS beautiful.
     
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