omega 111.024 tank , missing balance jewel , worth fixing ??

kazd · 2026-10-01T07:35:53-0500

Good morning members , I was waiting long time to tackle this problem with my omega tank 111.024 , couldn’t figure out the problem , finally last night I decided to disassemble it and hurray I found the problem , taking off the dial I found that the balance jewel on dial side is missing a (mystery ??) got the watch on eBay long long ago and just left it unattended , now going through my stuff decided maybe it’s time to give it a try, it has the 620 movement , and hallelujah I have 2 spears that I got from this gold buying place that ravages gold watches for scrap , but this lady actually saves the movements I got few nice ones but mostly ladies watch movements , so to the point ,including some pics , is it worth to spend time on this one, movement cost me $ 5 dollars , it’s great idea to visit the I will call a gold watch scrap yards sometimes may find something very useful , and with the gold price at this level there won’t be many gold watches around haha, sadly saying , so advise please , thank you , good day , kazd

Garden Veggies · 2026-10-01T07:53:30-0500

hi Kazd. this is a worthless model and probably not worth the hassle.

kazd · 2026-10-01T08:39:38-0500

Garden Veggies
hi Kazd. this is a worthless model and probably not worth the hassle.

hello there, thank you for reply , yes you maybe right but all watches I have are round as most watches 😊 this one actually looks very cool on the wrist a different , so I’ll probably go ahead and install the donor movement since I got it almost for nothing so no cost here and I’ll have one square watch haha, thank you again for your honest opinion , by the way it’ll give me a little practice on disassembling very small movements , which is a challenge , good day , kazd

ErichKeane · 2026-10-01T09:12:29-0500

Its about 30 minutes of work to replace it if you have a donor. So it entirely comes down to whether it is worth your time, and something you would actually use/wear/etc.

Though, that WILL probably require a jewel press, so if you don't have the tools...

As Garden says, it is basically a low-value watch with a 'meh' dial, so deciding whether it is worth it to YOU is the decision, but it is clearly not worth paying someone to do anything to.

kazd · 2026-10-01T10:32:28-0500

ErichKeane
Its about 30 minutes of work to replace it if you have a donor. So it entirely comes down to whether it is worth your time, and something you would actually use/wear/etc.

Though, that WILL probably require a jewel press, so if you don't have the tools...

As Garden says, it is basically a low-value watch with a 'meh' dial, so deciding whether it is worth it to YOU is the decision, but it is clearly not worth paying someone to do anything to.

Thank you for your reply and advise , and the question is truly , will I enjoy wearing it, I think I may it’s a completely different feel on the wrist and looks cool a square watch and so thin and compfy, I already fitted new leather strap I had laying around , and wouldn’t need the jewel press as I will just swap the whole donor movement it does run ok, will see how good it runs when the hands go back on , again the movement I got basically free😊 I’ll update how it came out, and yes the dial looks crappy but it adds little sign of age to it , after all it’s not a water resistant case so moisture effect did it’s damaging job, thank you again , it’ll be my first omega square watch on the wrist , and yes if I had to pay someone to do this work for me I wouldn’t doit I would just leave it in drawer , besides as I mentioned it’ll give me little practice , thank you , good day , I’ll have more to post as I’m moving on to revisit rest of the collection , good day ,kazd

kazd · 2026-10-01T10:49:57-0500

kazd
Thank you for your reply and advise , and the question is truly , will I enjoy wearing it, I think I may it’s a completely different feel on the wrist and looks cool a square watch and so thin and compfy, I already fitted new leather strap I had laying around , and wouldn’t need the jewel press as I will just swap the whole donor movement it does run ok, will see how good it runs when the hands go back on , again the movement I got basically free😊 I’ll update how it came out, and yes the dial looks crappy but it adds little sign of age to it , after all it’s not a water resistant case so moisture effect did it’s damaging job, thank you again , it’ll be my first omega square watch on the wrist , and yes if I had to pay someone to do this work for me I wouldn’t doit I would just leave it in drawer , besides as I mentioned it’ll give me little practice , thank you , good day , I’ll have more to post as I’m moving on to revisit rest of the collection , good day ,kazd

hello again , an update on the seamaster 30 I was working on timing , so two days later stays at +5 seconds , demagnetized again yesterday and will leave it alone , the crown is unsigned it bigger and comfortable for winding , at some point I may try to find one with omega logo on it , thank you for your advise on this one it helped greatly , good day , kazd

Wat-1 · 2026-10-01T12:58:00-0500

Garden Veggies
hi Kazd. this is a worthless model and probably not worth the hassle.

Definitely not worthless people love unique ones and this square one is nice , don’t get me wrong it’s not in the best of condition but still worth more then you think after a little repair easily worth $200 + and with it’s a medium size it’s suited for male and female.
I own 3 of these lovely watches all 9ct because why not 🤣😂

kazd · 2026-10-01T14:30:48-0500

Wat-1
Definitely not worthless people love unique ones and this square one is nice , don’t get me wrong it’s not in the best of condition but still worth more then you think after a little repair easily worth $200 + and with it’s a medium size it’s suited for male and female.
I own 3 of these lovely watches all 9ct because why not 🤣😂

Hello there and thanks , glad to know there is someone that appreciates these elegant square watches , yes I’ll repair it myself and most likely enjoy it , it look and feels great on the wrist a something different, don’t care much about the value of it but I have it and know its in rough shape especially the dial , that adds to the vintage look, call me crazy lol but this is me , thank again regards good day , kazd

Wat-1 · 2026-10-01T14:53:34-0500

@kazd same I’d rather an aged watch with signs of use , i often wonder the history behind some I have and what their previous life's been before me. lol

kazd · 2026-10-01T15:58:00-0500

Wat-1
@kazd same I’d rather an aged watch with signs of use , i often wonder the history behind some I have and what their previous life's been before me. lol

Ah yes I’m the same way , I’ll take aged imperfect dial and little scratched up case over terribly redialed one or over polished case that it looses its tru contours , I have few watches with redone dials some are decent and maybe 3 that could use professional job, I was searching for someone that works on restoring dials and found this one in business since 1926 ,, Kirk Rich Dial company have you heard about him? I watched some of his work on YouTube , amazing . Supposedly hi has the largest collection of original vintage templates for omega , me thinking I’ll contact him send some pics for estimate , on the website it’s quoted standard job $ $249 depends probably on the complication I have beautiful gold seamaster with golden dial that was butchered by someone before I got it, and omega triple calendar that was redone not to good especially the moon phase disk , these two I would like to fix, so hopefully I’ll contact him maybe this weekend , I’ll post the gold seamaster for you guys to asses , good day, kazd

omega 111.024 tank , missing balance jewel , worth fixing ??

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