New in today. Needs a little love but the price reflected it. Seamaster using the 501 movement dated to circa 1956 from the 15.65m serial. Case is double marked 2846/2848, can't can find very much information about these. It is probably OT2846 since the Omega Vintage Database gives a hit for a sub second version as 2848 and there is a matching description for 2846 but with no picture. Case is solid 18K and very heavy. Caseback alone weighs about 8g, many gold watch cases weigh not much more than this in total. Purchased from its owner who has cherished it since the early 1960s and was wearing a -69 Speedmaster which he sadly wasn't willing to part with. Anyone got one like it? Also a couple back from the repairer too, 50-60s Rose 18K Chronographe Suisse (a good example of a thinner gold case) with the less common NS orientation using the Venus 170 movement (I think) and a 60s mid size 31.5mm manual Seamaster Deville 135.001 with cal 630.
You’re correct - yours is a 2846. 2848 is the sub-second version. It looks very nice! I don’t have one like it per se but have an 18k 2520/2577 that I picked up recently. Very curious to weigh the case on mine.
Just read your thread and have commented, you did very well with yours, I gave rather more than you did but had the benefit of inspecting mine first.
Sweet Seamaster! That Chrono Swiss is a beauty, too; always love the less common vertical sub-dial configuration, and the rose color is wonderful!
Beautiful pieces! Especially the gold Seamaster. I’m one of those guys that shoots for different dial variants inside the same case. Love the 2 tone dials on the 50s Seamasters. Just gorgeous
The 18K SM 2846-1 is now back from being serviced and I am pretty chuffed with how it came out. It has clearly seen a bit of life which is to be expected on something 62 years old but thankfully isn't polished to hell or retouched and is now working like errr clockwork. Not a minter by any stretch but nice original radium lume and lovely presumably solid gold clover crown. In other news, I did get the owner to sell his -69 Speedmaster (mentioned in post 1), which turned out to be a 145.012-68 but that story is worth telling once it comes back from its service and has a couple of irregularities rectified!