My Early Seamaster 120 Divers. What to look for and what to avoid.

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Saw this one in my ebay watchlist today, best offer was accepted and the original price was $1,995. Seems like a good price to me with the bracelet, although the lume appears very faded / possibly cleaned from the dial. Anyone here get it?

and a recent service by Simon Freese!

I may have made an impulse offer and purchase 😗😉 . I’m happy to share photos when I get it.
 
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Here’s my 120. I heard that its common that the bezel fades to this ‘ghost’ color. This is due to the material used on the bezel. Can someone tell me more about this?

Same here, ghost bezel. I've once contemplated to trade it for one that had the more original, pitch black bezel, but I realized how much I really like this ghost color
 
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Is this so? Because when I collected these I found the no dates fairly often. Maybe time has changed. I did'nt look at them for the last couple of years.
I thought this too. I mean you don't really need a date function when skin diving or snorkeling.
 
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Is this so? Because when I collected these I found the no dates fairly often. Maybe time has changed. I did'nt look at them for the last couple of years.

Anecdotally, I’d agree the date version is more common. Over the years I’ve had 5 of these, and although I slightly prefer the no date for it’s cleaner dial, I’ve had 4 date versions and only 1 no date.
 
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Same here, ghost bezel. I've once contemplated to trade it for one that had the more original, pitch black bezel, but I realized how much I really like this ghost color

Very, very similar to mine, even down to the white date disk, faded bezel and bracelet.

Do you know the serial? Mines 26,3xxxxx.
 
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Same here, ghost bezel. I've once contemplated to trade it for one that had the more original, pitch black bezel, but I realized how much I really like this ghost color

Very, very similar to mine, even down to the white date disk, faded bezel and bracelet.

I’m in a similar boat. I took a punt on this one a little while ago after bidding on a listing with awful photos and what looked like an aftermarket bezel. After some light cleaning, I realized the bezel just had major fading that grew on me.

 
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Very, very similar to mine, even down to the white date disk, faded bezel and bracelet.

Do you know the serial? Mines 26,3xxxxx.

25,692xxx
 
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Here’s my recent acquisition. I’m struggling to get the bezel back on after cleaning. Normally it would click on the spring but it really does not happens this time. Am I missing something? Maybe the spring is not right?
 
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OMEGA Seamaster 120 manual wind / no date
paired with:
Vintage NASA Velcro strap JSC-SPEC-M1 Mil-spec (Mil-F-21840C)
 
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Love this thread 😀
These gems are still undervalued. Been my favorite watch since I got it 7 years ago. Bezel was not so faded when I got it but after a lot wrist time it's fading slowly.

 
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Here is above watch next to mint non faded bezel 😀 Of course light angle does a lot when taking photos.

 
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It's the shiny Omega logo that really does it for me on these watches. Same reason why I love the pre-moon speedmasters so much.
 
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OMEGA Seamaster 120
case ref.# 135.027 (epsa)
cal. 601 no date / manual wind

Interesting with price list from Omega and all details around service documentation. Thanks for sharing that.
Quite juicy bill. That was 2018 so time for a new service again 😁
Very nice watch BTW 😀
 
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Interesting with price list from Omega and all details around service documentation. Thanks for sharing that.
Quite juicy bill. That was 2018 so time for a new service again 😁
Very nice watch BTW 😀


service / maintenance is due again indeed
 
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Great article and posts! Beautiful watch that strikes my fancy quite well. I want one! ;-)
 
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Someone’s about to get disappointed!

Absolutely. More fake 120’s than genuine at the minute.
 
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Absolutely. More fake 120’s than genuine at the minute.

Terrible! I reported it but no response from eBay.
They will be the envy of the uninformed .