My Seamaster 2846-14 with 2 tone dial and gold furniture

Hello OF members
I love 1950s Seamasters, and my recent addition is this Seamaster 2846-14 SS automatic no date cal 501 from 1958. It came from an estate seller with very scratched up crystal as a bit of a gamble, but the 2 tone dial with gold furniture caught my eye and I hoped for nice surprise. The first photo is from the listing before, and rest after polywatch (repeated rounds). ( If this seems similar to posts by @qazwsx1 this is not accidental, as I enjoy and admire Teerapat’s discussions and collection.)

As I see it:
Dial: as I hoped, the dial is clean with 2 tone textured center and circular brushed outer gold ring around indices. No visible dial marks. Gold furniture with original radium lume dots with typical dark brown radium color. I wondered if furniture was rose gold, but I think it’s yellow. Dial text is correct with coathangar S.
Hands: dauphine gold hands are correct and likely original, with dark lume lines probable aged radium, possible later ink fill not sure. Need UV light to check.
Crystal: original plexi with narrow flat foot center logo. Very scratched with several edge scratches I thought probable crazing/cracks. But they all disappeared with Polywatch.


Case: SS 34mm with marks and dings Lugs retain some edges.
Snapdown Caseback with raised Seamonster with some signs of wear on letters (look at A) , and Waterproof text. Inside Caseback has double reference numbers typical for this reference, 2848 for subdial seconds version, and 2846-SC for center sweep models.


Crown: original cloverleaf with narrow flat feet logo. Correct for this reference.
Movement: correct cal 501, which could be either 17, 19, or 20 jewels. This one 20J. SN 16.68x.xxx dates to 1958. Was described as running, which is true for about 10 minutes before stopping.


So the dial was a nice surprise, but will need full service as it’s a keeper. These came with many different dial options I particularly like this 2 tone with gold indices.


And here is nice overview of the reference.


Thanks for reading this. All comments welcome!
Sid

Really nice, congrats!

Very nice, particularly the dial which is very clean. I have very similar, though not as tidy and mine has the earlier plain caseback. I've not worked out yet whether I have rose gold furniture or just slightly patinated yellow gold! This is a 2846-11.

ps the first 2846s had a different rounded S so don't assume it has to be a coat hanger to be correct, look for instance at the one in your video above.

Congratulations on your findings, and thank you for mentioning my name in your post.

Thank you for sharing yours the crosshair is really nice and I would agree it looks like rose gold in this photo. And yes I have noted the round S too, I had previously thought the coat hangar was the older of the 2 styles but apparently not always so, as you point out.