Omega Geneve 396.0843

Hello! First post! Just found this place. I have a vintage omega from what I can tell it appears to be a 396.0843. It was my grandfather’s watch and passed down to me. Does anyone know anything about these? There isn’t anything on the internet about them and the ones I can find aren’t the same as this one. It hasn’t ran in some time . I am wanting to send it to Omega for a proper service .

Thanks for the help! I’m glad I found this site. I live in southern West Virginia . I have no idea what the watch is worth, I can't find another one to compare it with. I can see subtle differences between the example of a 396.0843 and what I thought I had based on the vintage section on the Omega website. The markers and the hands are what I immediately spotted. Thanks to whoever posted that. I'm not an Omega collector or watch afficionado by any means. If it's not that big of a deal to get the back off and a battery changed there is a place I believe that could handle it to see if it'll start ticking again. Anyone with information on these things please share. We have determined it was probably a 25th anniversary gift to my grandfather from my grandmother as silver would have been the traditional gift (even though it's stainless i believe). That would have put this watch around 1975/1976.

It's no need to send the watch to Omega for a proper service. It will cost very much and i think that if the watch is running even a good local watchmaker can do the job of cleaning. Welcome to the forum.

The mystery continues, the reference number on the case back is 196.0080 which is telling me it's a Quartz Seamaster. There are no markings on this that say seamaster like the other examples. I did see some examples of a watch labeled a seamaster without the name on the face but it was an automatic. Apparently there is a special way to set these and its not as simple as pull the crown and turn it... please all, please continue to share and information you may have.