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Annapolis
·Deleted—errant post about a different ref.
No logo No stainless steel engraving on the lugs...
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Meme-Dweller
·Here’s a weirdness: the one that Millenary reviewed also seems to have lacked those markings. This could just be one of those things
https://millenarywatches.com/speedmaster-sapphire-sandwich-006/
That's an 1863 and they're not supposed to have those markings. Wouldn't say STAINLESS STEEL at all and the globe marking would be on the caseback if it's one of the later production models.
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4011021
·In the world of vinyl records, if you have one in which the manufacturer made a mistake, and something is missing (like a wrong label), it will often make it rarer, more desirable and more expensive.
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Annapolis
·One could imagine an analogous situation with an Omega—Snoopy is upside down or something. But this… isn’t that.
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Willy Fog
·In the world of vinyl records, if you have one in which the manufacturer made a mistake, and something is missing (like a wrong label), it will often make it rarer, more desirable and more expensive.
Yes, I also have a small collection of Vinyls records 😉
I don't know, I'm still waiting an answer from Omega
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drster
·Here's one I had last year. I would be very concerned about the missing engravings regardless of what Omega says. Return and replace.
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Tekashi_145.022
·The engraving can’t be seen when you’re wearing it, so I’m a bit surprised at the number of folks saying to send it back. If you get a letter from Omega acknowledging it as a QC defect, and were otherwise happy with the watch (and not planning to sell it), I’d keep it… No need to risk getting a new example with a new, more obnoxious QC issue, like a slightly-off-center chrono seconds hand that is “within tolerance,” or any number of nitpicky issues that would be visible when wearing the watch.
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YVR785
·The engraving can’t be seen when you’re wearing it, so I’m a bit surprised at the number of folks saying to send it back. If you get a letter from Omega acknowledging it as a QC defect, and were otherwise happy with the watch (and not planning to sell it), I’d keep it… No need to risk getting a new example with a new, more obnoxious QC issue, like a slightly-off-center chrono seconds hand that is “within tolerance,” or any number of nitpicky issues that would be visible when wearing the watch.
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·Respectfully, this is bad advice and I hope OP does seek a return/refund. This is a pretty bad QC issue and is not easily fixable like a misaligned hand. There’s a 99% chance any other example would be better than this one.
Hmmm… We appear to have different definitions of the word “respectfully!”
Not such a bad defect in my book if it can’t be seen when wearing, assuming it is acknowledged by Omega as a QC issue, but it is OP’s call and I can understand why it would be a dealbreaker for some owners.
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Annapolis
·Hmmm… We appear to have different definitions of the word “respectfully!”
Not such a bad defect in my book if it can’t be seen when wearing, assuming it is acknowledged by Omega as a QC issue, but it is OP’s call and I can understand why it would be a dealbreaker for some owners.
You’re right that it’s not as bad as a misaligned bezel or a kinked hand or something. If it were a watch I 100% knew I was going to keep forever, then sure, who cares? But the sales subforum here is a showcase of watches folks once confidently declared they were 100% never going to sell. 😀
This is a collectors’ and enthusiasts’ forum, so we may be especially finicky about things—your average off-the-street watch buyer isn’t going to notice or care about this missing engraving. In that case, having the note from Omega might actually be a negative as it’ll draw attention to an issue that might otherwise have escaped notice and turn the buyer off. It’s a watch with an asterisk. An Omega collector, on the other hand, will probably keep looking—letter or no—as these are mass produced and easy to find, so, again, there’s no reason not to find one that doesn’t have this strange anomaly. To be totally blunt—only speaking for myself, of course—I would not buy this watch. (I mean, if someone just gave it to me or sold it at a ludicrous discount, sure. But not anywhere near market value.)
There’s no right answer here. But I know what I’d do.
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Evitzee
·No where has the OP stated what kind of deal he got buying this from 'a friend of a friend'. Full retail or at a hefty discounted price? That's a big factor into whether I'd keep it or not. Although the crowd here on OF gets all sweaty about things like this, in the real world a future buyer wouldn't care. Most Speedmasters aren't resold on a forum like this, they are sold privately or traded in with a dealer and the absence of the lettering wouldn't enter into the value equation. Only the OP knows the whole story in order to make a decision whether to keep it or send it back. See what Omega says and go from there.
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YVR785
·and the absence of the lettering wouldn't enter into the value equation.
Even if hell froze over and they did provide this elusive letter, how lame would that be? Oh here’s my $7k Speedmaster and a letter proving they sh*t the bed. Fix, return or replace, OP.
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arno
·On this watch for sale, there's no globe nor "stainless steel" words on the third picture, while they are on the pics from Omega official website for this same SKU
https://www.chrono24.fr/omega/omega-seamaster-diver-300-m--id34240931.htm
https://www.chrono24.fr/omega/omega-seamaster-diver-300-m--id34240931.htm
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