Hi
I'm new to the forum but have been an avid reader for the past few months.
To be honest I'm a bit shocked at how addictive reading and learning about watches on the forum has become!

Back to subject title...

I have the below Marine.




I've tried to find out what the original strap looked like and have found a seal skin strap with what appears to be a non Omega deployment clasp...well a picture only! Can't imagine there is any chance of owning one!!!



I've also recently seen the below nice example for sale where the lugs have holes (first time I have seen this on a marine).
The bracelet is a HC 55. I've seen a similar one on ebay - http://www.ebay.com/itm/251298695453?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648Purchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network.
However, I'm unsure if it would fit without making large holes in the lugs as per the below picture.
It looks like there is the possibility to thread a slim spring bar through the hollow bar on the HC 55 ebay strap, but I'm unsure.

Plus I'm a little concerned that a SS bracelet which wasn't specifically made for the marine could damage the lugs.

Does anyone here own a Marine they have put a bracelet on, or have experience of the HC 55 that they could share?




Thanks for reading.

 

Thanks Alice

 

I can only confirm what gator said. I don't think that the metal bracelet you showed was put on Marine models by Omega. I've only heard about the seal strap with the deployant clasp.

Mine says hello :



And two other advertisings :

 

Thanks Tire-comedon, much appreciated.
That'a a very nice Marine you have.

 

Thanks, yours is also in a very good condition. Is it the model with the long clasp like mine :


Or a short clasp as on the last picture you posted?

 

Mine also has the long clasp at the back, and the crown is at 12. Oddly I have another which has the crown at 6. No idea why they would have been made differently.

 

You.........have...................another one..........?

 

Hi,
I need to check on a 19.4, but I think I remember reading somewhere that the dial feet are symetrical and can be turned so that crown is at 6 or 12.

Obviously we all need to see pictures of the second one.

 

I just noticed that on the add shown by Gator, the crown is at twelve, and on the last one I posted, it is at six!...

 

Hi guys, thanks for all the info, advice and pictures.

Bill, I like the vintage deployant clasp, very nice.

PS
Sorry for the delay JimInOz, here you go





Thanks again

 

Very nice watches with dials in very good condition. Congrats. Interesting to see that they both have the stripped case which, accordinf to AJTT, is rarer and was produced for the French market.
Mine has the slick case :

 

No no, thank YOU!

 

Nice Marine Omegas here

tamura

 

I think today I have become our forums official super geek................... so:

I have owned a fair few Marines over the years, love them but they are just that little bit too small for me! sad but true........ anyway, I am duty manager at work tonight which means I finished at 5:00pm and am stuck in my office until 9:00pm, I've caught up on all of my work so I thought I would do some watch geeking............so:

I have an extremely special watch which will be making a forum appearance in the not too distant future, it is a chronograph from the 1930's, I have been searching for an appropriate band for it! I have always loved the Omega Marine straps with the deployment buckle but there is little or no information on them, scouring the web I found this post.

Result I thought, or not because it just helps me see what I can't have

(although I did notice the watch Bill is showing off is one I think I sold him a couple of years back, which strangely I bought from a guy in Hull who found it in his local charity shop for £25)

Not good enough I thought................ so:

I took this post and carried it a bit further and here are the results:

The pic the OP posted led me to these pics of Omegas own museum watch (which ironically I have seen in the flesh) which does indeed have it's original Seal skin band with original deployment buckle



Which led me to magnify the images and note that the buckle is a Hadley USA buckle (makes sense) so I did some research and found this, which is indeed the same buckle attached to a very very cool 17mm BCT which I intend to have adapted to 18mm fitment for my new Chrono (when the chrono arrives back from service you will realise why I have gone to such lengths) anyway, enjoy:







A long and elongated thread I know but I thought the Marine owners out there might like to know that the buckles for these watches were made by Hadley in the USA and if you are a super geek like me here is the original listing, I have bought two BCT's to ensure my watch maker can make one that fits so I will have a spare clasp going and maybe even a spare BCT if anyone facies one:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261799540039?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:ITPurchases made through these links may earn this site a commission from the eBay Partner Network

I am sure someone out there can make you custom fitting and a custom strap (ABP paris maybe) and complete your Marine

Boom....................... Omega Geek badge of the day has got to go to me..................