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Hello everyone

I recently bought an Omega Foibos CK275 from 1935. The watch looks great for its age, the dial looks intact and never renewed. My only concern is the main handset which is not in the catalog. Their size seems correct, the color certainly matches the original second hand, and the radium is the same color as the dots on the dial.

The dial has no scratches to indicate a sloppy switch of the hands. What do you think about this watch?
 
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The dial has no scratches to indicate a sloppy switch of the hands. What do you think about this watch?

Maybe someone did a non sloppy switch of the hands... and lumed the dial to match?
 
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I have only ever held one in my hand, and the dial and hands were exactly like the catalog picture.
The watch is owned by the person I suspect first posted the catalog picture.
 
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These hands look nice and I would not mind to have them on my watch...
 
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Yeah, maybe...

I mean, your two options are:

1 - It has had the hands swapped, and the dial re-lumed to match.

2 - It shipped from the factory in 1935 with the hands and dial lume it has.

Based on the catalog image, option 1 would seem the most likely.

Based on AJTT, option 2 seems possible. Although as has been mentioned many times in the past, not every watch in AJTT is quite as it should be.

Without a full and detailed history of where the watch has been since 1935, it's really impossible to tell I think?

As it stands, I think it's a handsome watch. Congrats.
 
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Well, the catalog picture does not match the advert picture either. Take look at the minute track under the lume markers👎
 
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Well, the catalog picture does not match the advert picture either. Take look at the minute track under the lume markers👎

That is likely to be the fault of a wrong crystal.
 
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Tend to disagree, nowhere in the picture of the catalogue model can minute markers be seen behind the hour markers. If your observation were true, at least some of the now hidden minute markers would show, don’t you think?
 
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Well, the catalog picture does not match the advert picture either. Take look at the minute track under the lume markers👎

By the catalog picture, do you mean the image from A Journey Through Time?

If so this is not a catalog, but a book written and published a long time after the watch was made.

And I would suspect that the watch in AJTT isn't quite as it left the factory.
 
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Well, the catalog picture does not match the advert picture either. Take look at the minute track under the lume markers👎
Well, it's just a kind of probably handcrafted illustration, take a look at the crown and the Omega font
 
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Tend to disagree, nowhere in the picture of the catalogue model can minute markers be seen behind the hour markers. If your observation were true, at least some of the now hidden minute markers would show, don’t you think?

It took me a minute (no pun intended) to see your point. The issue here is that despite the text accompanying the image, the depicted Phoibos hasn't got lume on the dial. The lume plots fill out the two "minute squares" behind each hour marker.
 
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To clarify my comment.

The only things I see incorrect with the OPs watch are the minute and hour hands. Everything else is correct (IMO).

The catalog picture correctly depicts the watch I held in my hand in Paris.
It describes a "cadran lumineux" (luminous dial), i.e.: luminous hands and hour indexes which is what I remember seeing (and feeling extremely envious of).

As the catalog depiction is a monochrome hand drawn illustration/print from the 1930s, it doesn't correctly show the application of lume in the two minute blocks behind the black hour markers.

There is another version of "Foibos" I've seen with a plainer dial (no lume) and Omega "club" hands, but even though original, it was in much worse condition than the OP watch.

I agree with Chris that the picture from AJTT may not be a true representation of the watch that left the factory.

Also see this example where the faint minute marker lume is still visible.

As with many Omega models, while the case may be identical, there were often variations of dial/hand combinations, however I don't think the OP combination is original.

That being said, I wouldn't kick it out of bed on a cold night.

Cheers
Jim
 
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The radium is still glowing, but only for few seconds. Sorry for the quality of pictures, my phone was a lot cheaper than this watch 😜
 
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Like Jim said: it’s still a nice watch (translated then😉). Hope you can enjoy it a long time!
 
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