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Omega SM300 165.024-64 Fake or Genuine?

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Dear all,
I am new to this forum and know absolutely nothing about vintage Omega. The other day I came across a sale of this watch SM300 165.024-64. The watch is not in my city and I will not be able to check it myself before buying. All I have are the photos that the seller provided me. At first I thought about complete originality and the lack of need to check the watch, the seller has reviews and is associated with vintage watches, but studying the photos on chrono and other resources, as well as specialized forum threads of original SM300, led me to the idea that this could be a fake. I was confused by the marks (12 - 3 - 6 - 9), the perfect condition of the bezel and dial, but serious wear of the hands (artificial?), large teeth of the bezel and some other factors. Could you help with this before I make a pricy mistake! The movement is 550 original 252... (as i understand is not an issue to put in a fake watch).

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The Cal. 550 was an optional movement in the original Seamaster 300 (primarily for export to the US to reduce duties, which was based on the number of jewels in the movement). But this is a fake watch case/hands, and who knows where that movement came from.

You were right to be suspicious. Even those of us familiar with this model have to be very careful nowadays.
 
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I bought mine years after I started collecting vintage Omegas and by far this was the trickiest to buy. More than half of what you will find are fakes and you have to be very very cautious while buying one, Everything was reproduced for this watch (except the movement which can be found very cheaply in other models that are not very collectible) and to the untrained eyes (and i personally spent years studying them) they are really hard to spot. Fakes are becoming better and better unfortunately.
 
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I bought mine years after I started collecting vintage Omegas and by far this was the trickiest to buy. More than half of what you will find are fakes and you have to be very very cautious while buying one, Everything was reproduced for this watch (except the movement which can be found very cheaply in other models that are not very collectible) and to the untrained eyes (and i personally spent years studying them) they are really hard to spot. Fakes are becoming better and better unfortunately.
Sadly though that even rated sellers are posting this kind of fakes on the net, so unexperienced buyers are more likely to buy one of those and wear them as it is without clear understanding that it is non-original watch.
 
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Dear all,
I am new to this forum and know absolutely nothing about vintage Omega. The other day I came across a sale of this watch SM300 165.024-64. The watch is not in my city and I will not be able to check it myself before buying. All I have are the photos that the seller provided me. At first I thought about complete originality and the lack of need to check the watch, the seller has reviews and is associated with vintage watches, but studying the photos on chrono and other resources, as well as specialized forum threads of original SM300, led me to the idea that this could be a fake. I was confused by the marks (12 - 3 - 6 - 9), the perfect condition of the bezel and dial, but serious wear of the hands (artificial?), large teeth of the bezel and some other factors. Could you help with this before I make a pricy mistake! The movement is 550 original 252... (as i understand is not an issue to put in a fake watch).

2025-01-27_07-19-48.webp 2025-01-27_07-20-03.webp 2025-01-27_07-20-17.webp 2025-01-27_07-20-30.webp IMG_6216.webp IMG_6217.webp IMG_6218.webp IMG_6220.webp
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Sadly though that even rated sellers are posting this kind of fakes on the net, so unexperienced buyers are more likely to buy one of those and wear them as it is without clear understanding that it is non-original watch.
What do you mean by a "rated seller?"
 
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What do you mean by a "rated seller?"
Those who have verified watch purchases with customers on online platforms. Having reviews always increases trust and reduces vigilance.
 
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Those who have verified watch purchases with customers on online platforms. Having reviews always increases trust and reduces vigilance.
In my experience, it depends greatly on the platform. In some cases, it's a meaningless designation because the seller receives no actual feedback, or can control and manipulate the feedback. On Chrono24, for example, the trusted seller designation means nothing.
 
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Ebay's seller ratings is also useless. whenever they get a bad review they call Ebay and they can get it removed. This is a joke actually, the 100% rating is complete BS.
 
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