Hi there,
any thoughts, comments on this Omega Jumbo from 1949(?) I bought a few weeks ago?
It should be a 30T3 SC AM PC 17p movement, or?

Cheers,
Giovanni

 

The old 30T3 SCAM

It says right on the movement Cal 283(an evolution of the 30mm movement) and 17jewels.

Nice watch

 

That’s a nice one! Dibs!

 

Omega also continued to use the 30 Tx names:

 

Indeed.

 

Beautiful watch! I like the unique dial.

 

Is that really an original dial? It looks absolutely pristine and someone must have cared for the watch to keep the dial in this condition.

 

Nice and good

 

... the dealer from whom I bought the watch told me that the watch belonged the last 30 years to a collector who kept the watch in a box...

 

I think it is almost excellent redial. The hour and minute hands are too short to the dial. The seconds hand is not Omega, I think. Still, it's a great watch and I want it! Nice catch! Congrats!

 

You’re probably right about the hour and minute hands, the seconds hand is acceptable—-but the dial looks original and the super clean movement supports that. We’d need more pics and macros

 

Unfortunately I don´t have furthers pics...
But the hands and the hours markers match colourwise, or?

 

I would like to see other pics of the dial, including one with the bezel off. But from what I can see, the dial looks not repainted to me.
Minute and hour hands are indeed too short and are likely a replacement.
Still a nice found!

 

...however, the minute hands touches perfectly the endpoint of the hour markers

 

Usually, on this kind of dial, the minute hands is supposed to touch the printed markers. But I do not pretend it is an absolute rule!

 

IMHO dial does not seem refinished (a swiss seller on Ebay was selling 2 dials exactly like this one about six months ago, they seemed to be original, I suspect this one it's one of them), while hands are too short and should be a replacement.

 

I don't know if the following comparison holds...
on the first picture you see the Rolex Explorer I from 2015 (with shorter minute hand and non-lumed 3, 6, 9) and on the second the Explorer I version which Rolex corrected in 2016 (slightly longer minutes hands touching the minute markers and lumed 3, 6, 9). Both running under the same Reference 214270.
Apparently, the length of the hour/minute hands can be a design choice...
I think nobody would question the originality of the 2016 Explorer I dial...

 

That’s a great watch. It looks super to me.

 

Do you have more infos about this swiss seller?
I was told that the watch belonged the last 30 years to an Italian notary from Bologna...