Omega 18k Bracelet

OllieOnTheRocks · Apr 21, 2020

Evitzee
Many gold buckles have been lost (stolen) over the years by a watchmaker replacing a strap and keeping the original gold buckle and giving the watch back with a cheaper plated buckle. One of the reasons you often find vintage pieces that don't have the original buckle.

Wow you'd think that the customers' would notice! I only have one original 9k gold buckle incidentally on the watch I am wearing today and I would definitely notice it gone! For such tiny things I find that they are not cheap even in auction! Often selling over £100. I was lucky that mine came on a watch that I bought about 3 years ago. To date it was only the second watch I have bought with original buckle and the only one that has been solid gold.

OllieOnTheRocks · May 2, 2020

So, the bracelet arrived, and the ends are 17.2mm wide. Leaving a .8mm gap on my Omega - doesn't look great, or feel that secure with such a gap. Maybe I'm being picky but I can't imagine this being for an 18mm lug gap. Were there any Omega's with lugs widths near 17.2mm or slightly more? I did read somewhere else someone had an 11/16 inch end link - perhaps there were watches that were made by imperial measurements?

padders · May 2, 2020

Some US market Omegas had 11/16" lug widths but those tended to be US domestic cases eg Ross etc. That is a Swiss bracelet so it is unlikely IMO to be imperial which equates to 17.46mm. Maybe you have an oversize 17mm bracelet or more likely it is an 18mm model has worn over the years.

OllieOnTheRocks · May 2, 2020

padders
Some US market Omegas had 11/16" lug widths but those tended to be US domestic cases eg Ross etc. That is a Swiss bracelet so it is unlikely IMO to be imperial which equates to 17.46mm. Maybe you have an oversize 17mm bracelet or more likely it is an 18mm model has worn over the years.

Yes that's probable - perhaps I'd be able to get a goldsmith to cut these end tubes off and put ones in that are like 17.8mm to close the gap...? wouldn't imagine that'd be too costly?

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