OMEGA RATTRAPANTE OLYMPIC POCKET WATCH

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Nickn

·Sep 28, 2022

I found this in a box of junk pocket watches it’s was just running but the split second fly back wasn’t working I sent it to a watchmaker in the Uk who had to make a heart fly back cam
I have had it back for a month today and it’s amazingly only gained 22 seconds

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Ocean

·Sep 28, 2022

Look nice..but it's not a redial? What is it with the "68" from the subdial? look like I paint it..

 

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mac_omega

·Sep 28, 2022

Ocean

but it's not a redial?

No

 

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Nickn

·Sep 29, 2022

No it isn’t a redial
I assumed 68 olympics??
Although the watch is a bit earlier

 

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size11s

·Sep 29, 2022

Are there any markings on the case back? If it was a competitively used model, that is for actually timing events, the 68 could well be a regulatory body inventory number that relates to it's regulation and timekeeping accuracy records.

 

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paddymoran

·Sep 29, 2022

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Are there any markings on the case back? If it was a competitively used model, that is for actually timing events, the 68 could well be a regulatory body inventory number that relates to it's regulation and timekeeping accuracy records.

I would also expect that it was an inventory number - surely necessary at an Olympics for official time keeping reasons.

 

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Nickn

·Sep 29, 2022

Thanks for the info
Here’s the case back

 

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size11s

·Sep 29, 2022

Do you have a date for the movement? I suspect that it is earlier than 1968, from my scant knowledge. It's a lovely thing.

 

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Nickn

·Sep 29, 2022

Here’s the movement before repair
Notice the two missing/broken screws the heads were floating around in the movement

 

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Nickn

·Sep 29, 2022

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Here’s the movement before repair
Notice the two missing/broken screws the heads were floating around in the movement

 

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Nickn

·Sep 29, 2022

You can see the screw heads at 7 o’clock

 

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size11s

·Sep 29, 2022

I presume that you have seen the great threads on the forum on Omega timers, for example https://omegaforums.net/threads/how...erial-numbers-and-any-lemania-movement.44685/. Otherwise, I have nothing of any value to add. I wonder what end user would engrave the movement number on the case back?

 

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Pvt-Public

·Sep 29, 2022

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I assumed 68 olympics??
Although the watch is a bit earlier

Considering that movement number it would likely be late 40’s, maybe early ‘50’s, so probably not anything from the ‘68 Olympics. And anything used to time events at the Olympics would most likely be a dedicated stopwatch only movement.

 

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Nickn

·Sep 29, 2022

Thanks
I was only guessing

 

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Pvt-Public

·Sep 29, 2022

Olympic or not, still a great piece to have.

 

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Nickn

·Sep 29, 2022

Time keeping is amazing
Were they chronometer rated when new?

 

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size11s

·Sep 29, 2022

This thread might be of interest https://omegaforums.net/threads/ome...ost-beautiful-movements-omega-ever-made.4375/
It might be worth donating a few quid to Omega for an extract.

 

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Nickn

·Sep 29, 2022

Thanks answers my question

 

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size11s

·Sep 29, 2022

I think the similarities with the timer in the above thread, also with a number in the sub dial, suggest that your watch was very likely to have been used in an olympics, which olympics I think only Omega could say for sure.