Let's see those Blacked Dialled Seamaster Companion & Technic / Technical Dials

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Hi! Need some help identifying this peice that I'm thinking of buying. Don't have alot of info other than the pictures provided by the seller and they are not in the best of quality.
Seller says its from 1968.
I'll post the pictures here but would you mind giving me some pointers of what to aks/look for? Thank you in advance.
 
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What do you think of it and from your research and reading this thread do you have any concerns?
 
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What do you think of it and from your research and reading this thread do you have any concerns?
I have not seen it in person. I just got the feeling that it might be a "franken" watch. I am however really new to the Vintage Omega watch scene, coming from Vintage Seikos I know there is a whole lot of franken watches out there. Where people combine cases and dials from different watches and claim it to be original.
The lume seems to be different from S.H s watch with looks like this one.

I guess my general question really is: Do you guys (who have probably spent more time than me looking at and reading about theese watches) see any red flags?
It is listed at a Swedish site for around 500 dollars.
 
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Well the caseback is wrong. It’s a 135.011 case yet it has a 135.041 caseback. There’s no ‘transistional’ or ‘rare’ explanation, it’s simply incorrect and been swapped at some point. Not necessarily a deal breaker but important to know.

The pictures aren’t great but the mid case looks ok and crucially the hands and dial which are the real stars of the show here look original. I’ll caveat this by saying I’m almost certain the dial Hasn’t been repainted but I can’t be sure whether it’s been relumed.

Overall, if you’re looking for one of these, the price is fairly good (I wouldn’t sell any of mine for anywhere near that price) but then again mine have the correct casebacks, have been serviced and I know which one has been relumed. Ultimately I’d want better pictures if I can’t see it in person because as soon as we know the caseback is incorrect, what else is? Is the crystal generic? Has the dial been relumed?
Again, these aren’t deal breakers but unless it’s dirt cheap, you need to know as it impacts originality and value.

TLDR: wrong caseback but seems fine apart from that. Get some more pics to satisfy your self there no other issues, particularly with the dial condition, but overall it’s probably the cheapest way of getting one of these.
 
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Well the caseback is wrong. It’s a 135.011 case yet it has a 135.041 caseback. There’s no ‘transistional’ or ‘rare’ explanation, it’s simply incorrect and been swapped at some point. Not necessarily a deal breaker but important to know.

The pictures aren’t great but the mid case looks ok and crucially the hands and dial which are the real stars of the show here look original. I’ll caveat this by saying I’m almost certain the dial Hasn’t been repainted but I can’t be sure whether it’s been relumed.

Overall, if you’re looking for one of these, the price is fairly good (I wouldn’t sell any of mine for anywhere near that price) but then again mine have the correct casebacks, have been serviced and I know which one has been relumed. Ultimately I’d want better pictures if I can’t see it in person because as soon as we know the caseback is incorrect, what else is? Is the crystal generic? Has the dial been relumed?
Again, these aren’t deal breakers but unless it’s dirt cheap, you need to know as it impacts originality and value.

TLDR: wrong caseback but seems fine apart from that. Get some more pics to satisfy your self there no other issues, particularly with the dial condition, but overall it’s probably the cheapest way of getting one of these.

Thank you greatly! Now I have a bit more to go on 😀
 
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Reopening this thread as I recently say this watch and wondered if it is an omega technical dial. The watch has a calibre 613 movement and omega reference number 136.019. There are 22 ( strange number ) between every 5 minutes. The watch dates from 1969. These are the only photos that I have at present. Any thoughts. Thanks
 
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I have done considerable searching and researching of these type of dials and I have never come across one like this. 22 marks indicates decoration rather than indices IMHO.
 
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Might you have any idea why. Do you think that it is a technical dial or???.
 
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I would want to first, confirm that the dial is original and not a redial. The pictures are not detailed enough to make a proper assessment. For the sake of this conversation, if it is an original Omega dial, I would say it qualifies based on the style
 
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Thanks very much. I will have the watch in hand within the next number of weeks. I will then get more information and photos and updates. One last photo of the very well inscription on the back of the watch.
 
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Yup, seems solid, the black dial version of this very rare model. 5 hash marks per minute = 1/5 of a minute (i.e 12 seconds), so functional not decorative, as that is a common measure for precision timing. Big crown fits the reference dial. The inscription also matches the date range of the model. I await wiser observations, but that's what I see.
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Yup, seems solid, the black dial version of this very rare model. 5 hash marks per second = 1/5 of a second, so functional not decorative, as that is a common measure for precision timing. Big crown fits the reference dial. The inscription also matches the date range of the model. I await wiser observations, but that's what I see.
I was commenting on the 22 marks between the hour indices part of the dial.
 
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I was commenting on the 22 marks between the hour indices part of the dial.
Apologies, not a math person, the small hashes indicate 1/5 of a minute (12 seconds) on the minute hand.