My first Constellation .... and she´s from 1962 ... but not the dial ?

TexOmega · Oct 11, 2019

ConElPueblo
Ah, very cool - those are pretty uncommon 👍

How close in serial number to @Peemacgee's are yours?

I’ll post as soon as I get home from picking this ref 2279-3 up after COA today.

I just couldn’t wait till next week to get it.

Wuza72 · Oct 11, 2019

Verry nice watch 👍

TexOmega · Oct 11, 2019

Peemacgee
I’d put them in the properly ‘rare’ category because they shouldn’t exist but they do 😀
My .004 564 with serial number

24297784

Peemacgee · Oct 12, 2019

TexOmega
24297784

Only 582 apart, so pretty close.
I know it’s only two examples but it’s the start of a grouping IMHO.

I wonder how many (or few) of these ‘rump-end’ .004s wangled their way onto the .010 production line in order to be fitted with 564s.
At some point I must get around to writing to the Omega museum as they only quote 561s for .004s in the OVDB.

Wuza72 · Oct 12, 2019

So I'd say "mission accomplished" 😀

Thanks to all !

And what really makes me happy is the fact that my contribution leads to another exchange of long-time members about the diversity of omega constellations from an early period.

Greetings

Wuza

Tigeranteater · Oct 31, 2019

TexOmega
And they made a Pie Pan version with cal 564.

Tex, I’m digging that strap. Stingray?? And where did you get it if I may ask?

TexOmega · Oct 31, 2019

StingRay, yes

Years ago via Etsy from Thailand

Thank you

TexOmega · Apr 16, 2020

Peemacgee
Only 582 apart, so pretty close.
I know it’s only two examples but it’s the start of a grouping IMHO.

I wonder how many (or few) of these ‘rump-end’ .004s wangled their way onto the .010 production line in order to be fitted with 564s.
At some point I must get around to writing to the Omega museum as they only quote 561s for .004s in the OVDB.

Any follow up?

hoipolloi · Apr 16, 2020

From what I see, OP dial has been repainted by a good redialer.(with no knowledge)
Compare to an original and you will see.

Peemacgee · Apr 17, 2020

TexOmega
Any follow up?

apologies, no.
Was a little distracted at the end of last year then I forgot.

TexOmega · Apr 17, 2020

TechFounder · Apr 17, 2020

Noddyman
I don’t wish to pour cold water but there are some issues with your dial.
The hands have black infill and the indices look inlaid with onyx yet on the bottom we have T SWISS MADE T which indicates a lumed dial. I am not sure how this came about, possibly a later dual reference service dial or a very good redial. Other more knowledgeable may know the reason.

Edit:- Or a third possibility the guy/girl who put the original dial together picked out of the wrong box.

Hmm, I was told once that the T would also indicate that just the hands have tritium, so no tritium on the dial itself. This watch could have originally had lumed hands but somehow got swapped with the wrong hands. Hands are the most likely things to get swapped. Dials, not so much.

ConElPueblo · Apr 17, 2020

TechFounder
Hmm, I was told once that the T would also indicate that just the hands have tritium, so no tritium on the dial itself. This watch could have originally had lumed hands but somehow got swapped with the wrong hands. Hands are the most likely things to get swapped. Dials, not so much.

Incorrect in the case of Omega, don't know if it holds true with other brands. In general it is rare, if not very rare for a watch to only have lume on the hands and not the dial too.

Vicke · Apr 17, 2020

TechFounder
Hmm, I was told once that the T would also indicate that just the hands have tritium,

Thats not correct, the ones spreading that rumour was probably the same ones that did the hands/dial swapping. :whipped:

Watches came either lunmed both dial and hands or not att all.

TechFounder · Apr 23, 2020

ConElPueblo
Incorrect in the case of Omega, don't know if it holds true with other brands. In general it is rare, if not very rare for a watch to only have lume on the hands and not the dial too.

Vicke
Thats not correct, the ones spreading that rumour was probably the same ones that did the hands/dial swapping.
Watches came either lunmed both dial and hands or not att all.

I'll find out from Biel once they reopen. I think I've seen older vintage Seamasters with T with just lumed hands only.

NikoMartinez_SYD · Apr 23, 2020

All this thread has made me do is want to buy a pie-pan! Another one added to the list haha

My first Constellation .... and she´s from 1962 ... but not the dial ?

TexOmega

Wuza72

TexOmega

Peemacgee

Wuza72

Tigeranteater

TexOmega

TexOmega

hoipolloi

Peemacgee

TexOmega

TechFounder

ConElPueblo

Vicke

TechFounder

NikoMartinez_SYD

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