Omega 1039/516 original?

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Hello everyone. I’m not that expert on Omega bracelets so here to ask you your opinion about this one I found. It looks good to my eyes but I wanna be sure before proceeding in purchasing it. What do you think? Thank you very much!

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The good: it's legit.
The bad: it's missing a few fixed links (there should be 8 on each side), which leads to the taper of it being a bit stepped. And it's shorter, of course. Sourcing these can be a pain, as is fitting.
 
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What @Aludic says!

The fixed links are stretched, I would not be surprised if it has been reassamble from different parts, look at this poor bending:

 
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The good: it's legit.
The bad: it's missing a few fixed links (there should be 8 on each side), which leads to the taper of it being a bit stepped. And it's shorter, of course. Sourcing these can be a pain, as is fitting.
Thank you! So it’s shorter. I have to check if it can fit on my wrist anyway. But I read somewhere that to shorter I have to take away the stretching links instead of the folded ones right?
 
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What @Aludic says!

The fixed links are stretched, I would not be surprised if it has been reassamble from different parts, look at this poor bending:

Thank you! Unfortunately I added this pic by mistake, this is jot of the one I’m planning to buy. Sorry. But thank you for the comment, it’s nice to learn something new.
 
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Thank you! So it’s shorter. I have to check if it can fit on my wrist anyway. But I read somewhere that to shorter I have to take away the stretching links instead of the folded ones right?
Unless it's cheap (which I don't think after seeing the Omega pad, looks like a watch dealer) I would not buy it at all!
 
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Unless it's cheap (which I don't think after seeing the Omega pad, looks like a watch dealer) I would not buy it at all!
Actually is someone selling just omega bracelets on eBay. He has so many that I don’t know how is it possible to have that much. That’s why I had doubts. It’s not cheap.
 
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2150€ for this bracelt is a clear NO from my point of view...
 
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A very nice, full length, unmolested 1039 is sitting on German ebay for weeks, price is lower than 1000€... It has no end links but with some patience you should be able to find a pair of 516...
 
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A very nice, full length, unmolested 1039 is sitting on German ebay for weeks, price is lower than 1000€... It has no end links but with some patience you should be able to find a pair of 516...
Thanks for the advice. I’ll search for that from Germany. I also found one cheaper but an end link is a little dameged but I could try to fix it.