with the blue nato



credit @ Roberto

 

I have just discovered what the Day/Night indicator is used for.

It has been a miserable day in SE London today with poor light so when the indicator passes into the "Night" zone, the sun has theoretically passed over the yard arm and it's OK to open a bottle of red.

Yes, I know that will always be at 6:00 pm but it is Sunday.

 

Yep, every day at 6pm is beer o'clock in the UK! No need to reserve this pleasure for the Sabbath!

 

Steve, thanks for explosively igniting my interest in this model. I bought a used one around 25 years ago and flipped it. At the time I didn't like the dial layout (I was narrow-minded and hooked on the Valjoux 72 layout/operation). My loss, literally. I bought it for $300 and sold it for $200 to a camera guy (a lot of folks interested in both back in the day, must be a gears-and-springs kind of thing!)

Blue gator/white stitch is a winner, although I'm going to search for a picture of a mesh bracelet shortly.

Are there any interesting links regarding this model? (confession: I haven't looked yet). Thanks!

 

FWIW, the blue gator/white stitch band, then your bracelet. Just saw the mesh on a Google-search. Looks good but not as good as the OEM bracelet IMHO.

 

I don't know of any links but there is a lot to like about these. There's the central minute recorder which is, of course, much easier to read than a sub-dial. Then there's the fact that the minute recorder sweeps rather than jumps which I think is quite a nice feature.

I know it is an automatic which upsets some of the die hard Omegista, but primarily I'm a Zenith man so that's a good thing to my way of thinking.

 

Curious about your position on the "needle" minute hand being the only correct minute hand.

While many period pictures from Omega show the needle hand on the 176.007 (no need to show them here for my purposes), several other period pictures show the other style:



Interestingly, even the Ref. change notice from Omega, whereby the 176.001 became the 176.007, shows the non-needle style hand:



Oh, and my practically NOS GF version, without needle hand, just for good measure:

 

I certainly didn't mean anything more than an exploration of the topic. I'm no expert, either.

Folks responded to your thread also mentioning the "correct hand" bit (and I'd seen the same sentiment elsewhere), so the cacophony begged the question of what I was missing.

That said, if it has been independently confirmed that Omega no longer has any of the needle tip hands for some amount of time, it would provide some touchstone basis for determining whether a watch with a needle tip hand had seen replacement parts recently.

One thing is for sure: I've never seen a G.F. version of the .007 or any .005 with the needle tip minute hand.

 

Picked one of these up a month ago.

Looks to be in great condition (dial is flawless). Seems I have the replacement hands though : ( Wasn't aware of the pointy minutes hand before this thread.

How's the power reserve on your guys' watches?

Mine doesn't really seem to least longer than 5-10 hours if it's not on my wrist.

I was under the impression it was supposed to last for around 45hrs?

Maybe I'm just not active enough?

 

I think the pointy hands issue is a red herring - both types of hands are correct

I always give mine a full wind to stsrt with, and then a few turns each morning (i never wear watches at night), so never really an issue for me.

Sounds like yours may need a service though

 

I like those 176.007 - whats a good price today for the blue one with bracelet without box and papers? roundabout?

Thanks for hints...

 

I have two GF 176.007 both have Bronze dials and neither have needle tipped hands. One of them I have had for twenty years and at the time I bought it I also purchased a complete set of Omega hands and GF pushers from Otto Frie - these were never used and just a couple of minutes ago I opened the packets for the first time these do not have needle points either.

Cvalue13 could well be correct as to GF not appearing with Needle points -

 

Mine lasts a couple of days from a full wind.

 

How do I know when it's fully wound? The crown doesn't really stop on automatics, as far as I know....

 

I paid $2100 for the one you see above. It has, what I'm told, is the original bracelet and end links, and the dial, hands and case are flawless.