My Vintage 1964 Omega Seamaster De Ville

Hello everyone I am new to the forums with an old watch. I have a vintage Omega Model 166.020 with a 560 caliber movement it has an Omega serial number in the 21 million so it dates back to 1964. My father had it and I remember playing with it as a kid my father was an Iron Worker and he wore the watch to work and needless to say he beat it up a bit. Well he put it in a drawer and there it sat for 40 some odd years. Well I have a friend who is training himself to be a watchmaker so I gave it to him to see what he could do with it these photos are that result. It was missing the 6 and the crystal was thrashed i cannot fault him he did the best with what he had. But I do not like the way it is now sitting you can notice a large gap around the watch face and the crystal is a bit raised my question to the forum I want to one day pass this down to my son so should i send it to Omega Or does anyone know of a good watchmaker in California around the Sacramento, Modesto,San Francisco area?

Hi thanks for the reply really appreciate it I see you are a Omega watch maker do you know the easiest way too find one in my area? This is my first real watch and I'd like to find a qualified person to look at it.

Hey thanks yeah finding someone to trust with my watch that's going to be the hard party I think but hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.