Hi I just bought this Seamaster ref. 145.023 "Skywalker". Dial and hands are great in my opinion, case has some chips in the tungstun - chrome finish. In fact the case is near perfect apart from the chips at the top of the watch. ( see picture ) I guess the previous owner must have dropped it on his ceramic tile floor. Normally I don't care too much about scratches and chips as long as the case is untouched. In this particular case the watch is so good and the case so shiny that these few chips do bother me a bit. I am almost certain that this specific tungstun material makes it impossible to have the case refurbished. In case some of the Omega specialists here would know of a solution I would like to hear it. Thanks. Kind regards, Bernard
Great watch! As far as I know there is no chip fix available, as you rightly think they cannot be successfully polished away and I don´t think that micro welding would work in this case either due to the tungsten finish.
great "Skywalker" ...i love that watch, unfortunately there is no solution to repair the Tungsten case. I've searched a long time to find one with a more or less perfect case and found it just 1/2 hour away...it was a lucky find. After 4 weeks in Biel it run's like new. I just noticed that i have a slightly different dial..
Hi Incabloc, Fantastic Skywalker you found. Inner ring seems different from mine that has the tachy scale. Maybe both are correct, I don't know. Bernard
Some have a dial with a very thick font for the numbers inside the subdials and some have a normal thinner font inside the subdials, I've always wondered if the thick ones were a service part.
thank you....., yes the inner ring is different and acc. Omega there are 4 different ring's available, Tachy, Pulso, Deci and Telemeter. Same like on many other Omega's. But there is also a ring with a 60 (sec ?) layout. During the service in Biel they have also to change the ring (the gasket was "melted" away and they could not clean it without destroy the imprint) and a 60sec. one was not available, so they install a decimal one. After the service i found a 60sec. on ebay ........but i like it also with the decimal.
Great pictures. Wow, that gasket meltdown was a real disaster. Nice to see all turned out well and the watch looks like new again. Thanks for the interesting info. kind regards, Bernard
Its remarkably common too, almost every Anakin that pops up on eBay has a decomposing gasket imposing on the bezel.