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Wetworks
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Why would Omega sell aftermarket dials? If they were actual Omega service replacements, they'd be missing the "t" because they had super luminova instead.

Poor choice of words on my part, I meant aftermarket as in OEM replacement, apologies. Anyway, I had it backwards, the Constellation dial HAD the TTs, but no tritium. Not the only one I've seen that way, either. Google '168.016' and you'll see what I mean.

EDIT- Unfortunately the best example appears to be from a now-defunct scam-artist.😡 That said, the watchmaker I used is beyond trustworthy and I highly doubt he sourced a fake dial, especially one from Omega.

Conprof2.jpg
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dsio
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lenny lenny
Isn't that tritium paint on the hands?
Nope black onyx insert
 
U
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Ahhhhh, I have so enjoyed this thread! If I had a dollar for every time some n00b posted his redial and then railed against all the experienced veteran opinions I wouldn't have a mortgage anymore.

Occam's razor in action - which is more likely: you have a one of a kind unique prototype made by Omega that nobody on has seen before, or you have something that was refinished incorrectly?
 
Wetworks
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lenny lenny
Isn't that tritium paint on the hands?
dsio dsio
Nope black onyx insert

Correct, and they were the original hands included with the original non-tritium dial which I replaced. Weird thing is that almost all the pictures I see of this model show stick/baton hands, whereas the Omega vintage listing has it with the dauphine hands.

U ulackfocus
Ahhhhh, I have so enjoyed this thread! If I had a dollar for every time some n00b posted his redial and then railed against all the experienced veteran opinions I wouldn't have a mortgage anymore.

Occum's razor in action - which is more likely: you have a one of a kind unique prototype made by Omega that nobody on has seen before, or you have something that was refinished incorrectly?

I agree Dennis, but variations do exist. Do you think the Connie I sold had a bum dial? I certainly don't, but you're more expert than I, and you also know who did the work, and he's about as solid as they come, no?
 
U
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Tommy, I just don't know anything anymore.

...... or maybe I should say "the more I see, the more I realize I don't know".
 
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lenny lenny
Not without a time machine 😀

BTW, the watch is still being bumped along...
http://forums.watchuseek.com/f29/sa...0.html#/forumsite/20758/topics/1488010?page=1

This is the only time
Wetworks Wetworks
Poor choice of words on my part, I meant aftermarket as in OEM replacement, apologies. Anyway, I had it backwards, the Constellation dial HAD the TTs, but no tritium. Not the only one I've seen that way, either. Google '168.016' and you'll see what I mean.

EDIT- Unfortunately the best example appears to be from a now-defunct scam-artist.😡 That said, the watchmaker I used is beyond trustworthy and I highly doubt he sourced a fake dial, especially one from Omega.

You see leave this stuff to people who understand antiques and art. If you want the genuine thing buy new.

Conprof2.jpg
 
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The hour markers from 4-8 are upside down.... An Omega replacement dial would have better attention to detail..

👍
 
STANDY
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Even Chuck missed this (Friday afternoon job a one off, an experiment, a prototype) 🤦

@Kimmo
 
lwong
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So, that part about having owned the watch for 10 years...?
 
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megamon megamon
On an off note -
@stefan how many NOS Omega's do you currently own? Did you make a thread with pics?

Nothing like seeing true nos timepieces!
Pinzon

megamon - I use this entertaining thread (in Swedish we have an expression - "ont-skönt" - which means something like hurtfull and pleasant at the same time...) to blatantly push for "The NOS thread" - where many of Stefans NOS watches can be seen. And a lot of others.
Here you go and you are in for a feast:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/the-nos-thread.7352/
 
Stewart H
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Whoever stirred the pot on TZ - chapeau - that is how you carry out a witch-hunt.

I doubt we'll be seeing the OP for a while.

I will definitely be photographing the back of every dial I take off, from now on, so for reference here is my one for the 1040:

Dial back.jpg Dial Front.jpg


I wonder if we'll ever see the back of the "prototype" that was verified by the non-existent employee.
 
Fost
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Who is Mark ??

So funny thread on TZ!!

´ i have a 18k gold timex, interested?'
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For completeness here (as a migrant from TZ) it is also worth noting the issue with the sub-dial font, where the "printer" has borrowed Orfina Porsche Design Lemania 5100 sub-dials for the 12-hr and the 24hr (moving the 24 hr subdial from 12 o'clock on a pd to 9 for the 1040 movement). The font is very distinctive, and totally unrelated to the much squarer Omega sub-dial font. Even the sub-dial hash marks remain as per a pd.

Dave
 
Tom Dick
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Its certainly stirred up the hornets nest over on TZ and I imagine it will continue, what a shame! Best thing the seller could do IMHO is source a new dial from fleabay (these do come up now and again) and fit it and sell it on with complete transparency!

What a mess over on TZ
 
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Best thing the seller could do is start telling the truth
 
Tom Dick
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Absolutely agree, it certainly does appear that he has known what it is and where it has come from all along, which is really bad sport, he should have told the truth in the first place instead of masking it behind claims of STS validation of the his watch, I would have said this over on TZ but as anyone who's read the post will see he's already being hung, drawn and quartered............. then burned for good measure
 
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