New arrival, first Omega

Mine got company

@SwissMe I actually had a great deal on a Mark 4.5 a few years ago but just couldn't muster the cash in time in the end.

I have a strict rule of selling watches to fund watch acquisition, so have been cruelly denied on a few occasions, but missing the Mark 4.5 still hurts 😀

Both of those are crackers.

My Mark II came back from my horologist mate, just before Cristmas, who did a full service rebuild.

There were quite a few issues with it, and it clearly had not been serviced any time recently.

The bridle had broken off the main spring, several jewels were gunked up and the pinions on the minute recording and fourth wheels were bent.

He managed to source NOS for the parts that needed replacing and he got it back to me needing a few weeks to bed in.

The dial got a bit of clean, and the hands have been stabilised with lacquer on the back, so they all have that lovely uniform grey that drew me to it in the first place.

So with a timegrapher, after a decent bedding in period, I have got it to run +5s per day over 7 days in daily wear, with it being fully wound at night and left dial up.

For a 48 year old birth year watch, that I wanted to keep as original as possible, I'm happy with that.



For now. 😀

I was a fool to sell this watch.

So, I've been playing around with Old Grey, to see what straps and bracelets work best.

This is an old and worn leather band, as opposed to 'vintage', that works well.

And this is a cheap Moon Watch style band with straight end links that I think looks rather good too.



The original 1162/173 is nice and good to have, but I think the Mark II is more versatile than that.

I have a few more options to try, including a coarse mesh.

Continue the research!


Edit: I really must stop using that yeti for modelling purposes.