Omega pocket watch query

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Matchlock

·Feb 25, 2023

I have a gold plated Omega pocket watch, numbered on the movement 6404617 and 7246351 inside of the case. I'd be interested to know a little more about it, Age Calibre etc. I've looked at quite a few online and all of the ones I've seen have a seconds indicator dial but this one has only the hour and minute hands with no provision of a seconds dial, is this unusual?

 

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TexOmega

·Feb 25, 2023

Welcome......please post pictures of your watch dial.

And measure across the diameter.....it possibly could be a ladies sized watch from that era.

 

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OMTOM

·Feb 25, 2023

Your watch has the calibre 40.6L. In fact, you can see the ‘*0,6’ under the balance wheel on the right side of your first image. Yours is the earlier/original version of the 40.6L – which has the ‘tag’ click: the later (T1) version had a different click.

The calibre started in 1923 – and from your case number (which is usually the sequence for dating in these earlier watches) it would probably date about 1927.

The vast majority of Omega pocket watches did have a sub-seconds dial – but not all. Sometimes, the style of the dial led to it being excluded. As @TexOmega said, an image of the dial might help explain things further.

 

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Tire-comedon

·Feb 25, 2023

Caliber ref is engraved under the balance (40.6? would mean a 40.6mm diameter caliber and a men’s watch). Watch from around 1925-26 according to serial numbers. Can’t say more without pictures of the whole watch, front and back. Unusual to have a two hands watch with this caliber…

 

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Tire-comedon

·Feb 25, 2023

Tire-comedon

Caliber ref is engraved under the balance (40.6? would mean a 40.6mm diameter caliber and a men’s watch). Watch from around 1925-26 according to serial numbers. Can’t say more without pictures of the whole watch, front and back. Unusual to have a two hands watch with this caliber…

Tom (Omtom) was slightly quicker than me!

 

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Matchlock

·Feb 25, 2023

Thank you for the prompt replies, I realise that I could have given more information but the watch is stored at my son's house in one of several boxes that I've had to move out to make way for some house renovations, I've just copied the photo's from an old laptop that I'm disposing of and will take some new ones together with measurements as soon as I can. It's a while since I saw the watch but remember it as being Masonic.

 

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OMTOM

·Feb 25, 2023

Regarding the sub-seconds dial:

OMTOM

Sometimes, the style of the dial led to it being excluded.

This would be an example of a dial that might be produced without sub-seconds:

Matchlock

remember it as being Masonic.

So you may have answered your own question! We'll see...

 

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Widows Son

·Feb 27, 2023

By Masonic do you mean that it has Masonic emblems on the dial??? Or maybe engraved to an officer?? Masonic fob??? I'd love to see a picture of the dial!!!

 

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mgwooley

·Feb 27, 2023

Dying to see the dial on this one

 

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Matchlock

·Feb 27, 2023

It's a while since I saw it, it had gone out of my mind till I found a couple of photo's on an old computer that I'm disposing of I managed to print the two photo's then photograph the prints to upload here. I will make an effort to retrieve it from my son's garage and take some more, The symbol as I remember it is a double headed Eagle, possibly Scottish from the little that I was told when I first had it.