Hello, I have 3 watches that I intended to buy and I would like to seek your assessment on the authenticity and mainly on whether the crystal, hands, dial, bezel, case, crown and movement are in original condition. Your input is much appreciated.

Note all 3 watches' case width without the crown are approximately 38mm.

Watch #1:

 

Watch #2:

 

Watch #3:

 

Hello and welcome here.
No 2 and 3 are horrible redials and not worth buying.
The first one had probably water entering, if you look at the right side of the dial and the discoloration of the movement. Crown is a generic replacement.

 

Thank you for your welcome note and information. It is not surprising that water entered from the stem. Am I right to say that as long as the movement is working, regular servicing should be fine this Watch #1?

 

Welcome K K,
My advice would be that you could invest your money in a more original and better conditioned watch than the examples portrayed.
May I ask you how you managed to start a thread? I was unable to do so.
Thank you and best of luck in your search.

 

Hello, so you do not suggest me to buy any on the 3 watches? Or I can buy watch #1? Watch #1 is about USD400.

And I had sent you a message separately on how to post new thread.

 

Welcome KK! I had similar doubts very recently and wanted to acquire cal 2xx Omega watch The main problem that I had was that there are not a lot of resources that I could find on-line regarding those calibers BTW Exactly the reason, why I decided to create account in this forum.

This is my original thread and I think it will be useful for you to have a look: https://omegaforums.net/threads/omega-seamaster-cal-267.100438/ some great advice from forum members in there.

Answering your question - I wouldn't be buying any cal 2xx any time soon, simply because I am not knowledgeable enough to say is it fake, franken or both.

That being said as from yesterday I am very proud owner of cal 751 Constellation from 1968

 

Thank you for your sharing and that is a pretty awesome timepiece you got there. I do love Constellation. But for my build, I cannot take small watches thus I had been hunting around for big antique vintage Omega watch. Seriously, I do not have the knowledge on watch identification nor verification. However, I can easily have access to Omega Service Centre to carry out authenticauthe at a reasonable fee. But again, the outcome maybe too late.

 

What about this one? https://omegaforums.net/threads/seamaster-chronometer-cal-564.332/#post-1311579

 

Thank you for your sharing and indeed you are right on my current stage of purchase. And it is very rare to have a reasonable good vintage watch and let alone discovering one. I am just browsing and selecting based on aesthetic rather than taking a deeper look because as you rightfully point out, I don't know how to assess. And back to my initial thread, Watch #1 seems to be in original condition but with wear and water intrusion. If it does runs well, is it worth buying? Thank you for your time and effort and have a great weekend.

 

Thanks for sharing. I think it looks small. I like big watches and the biggest that I know is about 38mm.

 

Got it. I have a certain price in mind now after all the generous sharing to allow me to learn to make a sound decision. Deeply appreciated.

 

May I humbly ask what is very cheap (in USD) from your perspective?

 

I’m not sure the -21 came with numbers at 2,4,6,8,10,12.

Might be wrong though.

 

Ok. So it will be USD300 for the watch and USD200 for servicing. Great, I will take your figures as a benchmark. Thanks a lot.

 

Hello, I don't quite get you? Can you help me to understand your concern better. Thanks.