Good evening everyone, I’m brand new here on this world! Texting from Italy, my name is Alistar. I am a 25 years passionate in clock and watch making and restoring. Here my topic! I have an old bracelet from Omega, ref. 1039-516, it’s seems unpolished and to restore, for sure. What can be done to those dameged jumping links? Could be still a valuable bracelet, reporting to the online market place? Your opinion would be welcome. Nice to meet you all and thanks to permit me entering this world!
yes it is in need of restoration but could fetch about $1000 in its current state. You could sell the 516 end links separately and expect to get 600-800 or so.
Here's a thread that goes into some detail on repairing these bracelets: 1039 flat link stretch bracelet springs | Omega Forums And here's a link to Urdelar in Sweden, who sells replacement springs: 1039 – urdelar.se Best of luck!
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In the post linked, some would open the link from above. This is not necessary. The springs from Urdelar, which look extremely similar to those produced by member McGyver, slide in easily and are then rotated into position by keeping the link against a hard surface. The link is opened as detailed in GinoB’s. tutorial on Steve Waddington website: http://www.old-omegas.com/bracadd.html Please note that there are links missing, a complete 1039 should have 6+4 elastic links.
For whatever reason, mine have 8+5 per side. Edit: Okay, I may have been reading you wrong: you mean 6+4 = 10 spring links total per bracelet, correct? I was reading it as 6 fixed plus 4 spring each side.
If that’s the case, my understanding is that originally, there were 13 links per side, consisting of 8 fixed, 5 spring.
On the Omega symbol. side of the clasp, eight fixed plus four elastic. On the other side eight fixed plus six elastic.