Omega Found in My Wife’s Old Jewelry Box

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I know, it’s a little ridiculous given it’s minuscule size, but my wife has been carting her mom’s watch forever. So long, in fact, that she’d forgotten about it until we cleaned out the dark reaches of our closet. It’s an Omega, 14mm, but looks kind of cool with the mesh bracelet and little “security chain.”

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The haul also included these pocket watches, which were beautiful. Once.


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Cool old things, we’ll keep them. The Omega has no other markings, and I don’t want to try to open it. But I wonder, is it real? How old might it be?
Anyway, I thought you might get a kick out my found treasures.


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Without seeing the internals of the Omega, and going by the look of it, I’d say it’s fair dinkum ( Aussie for the real thing )
It’s a nice tasteful elegant piece.
Itty bitty ladies vintage watches don’t bring much, due to poor demand.
When it comes to watches, in general the ladies are much more sensible and practical than us blokes, when it comes to timepieces, they’re not really interested in what makes it tick, they want it to keep good time without fiddle bumming about with winding or maintenance, and have little interest in complications. A lot of ‘em will go for lots of sparkly shit festooned all over it though
 
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Love and sentiment are the only reasons to pay the cost of servicing these, as it usually exceeds the market value. You might have both though.
 
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@Pastorbottle and @buddman , thanks and I agree with your assessments. We aren’t considering doing anything with the watches except to keep them in the old jewelry box that they’ve been in for decades.They don’t take up much space!