Omega geneve 166.041 help please

These are great watches. They’re accurate, have a quick change date, good power reserve and comparatively inexpensive to service.

Here’s mine, also with a 565 movement.



However, unless you are trained to do it, and from your post I suspect you aren’t, quite what you thought you were doing ‘tinkering’ with the delicate movement of an Omega classic, is beyond me.

Comparing yours with mine, and I have a couple, your hour and minute hands appear to be replacements and the sweep hand end is missing and it looks, in your photo, to be bent. Yours is a mid/late 60s watch and parts may have been cleaned or replaced at an earlier stage.

For what it’s worth, send it to a watch repairer for service and replacement hands.

If it’s running strong you have been 😀