Omega Stories: Omega Dynamic III & 7 Rare Japan Only Variants You’ve Never Seen

There are in total 8 uniquely different dial designs available for the Omega Dynamic III. Oddly enough, only one of those designs, the 5200.50 below, was produced for sale worldwide.

The 7 exotic dials, which are arguably also the most exciting and desirable models were sold in Japan, and while some have leaked out over the years, the majority of them are still in Japan, where they sold for many years into the early 2000s. [..]

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These are really cool! Thank you for helping empty my wallet, as usual.

Yea they’re a bit out there and different but I’d really like a broad arrow or the electric blue, both appeal to me in different ways.

Incidentally we’ve now got enough Japan special models to have an index for them which hopefully will be available from the stories homepage before long: https://stories.omegaforums.net/tag/japan-specials/ There are so many more as well, they really did get a lot of brilliant models over the years.

I'm a big fan of the DYN III, it has been unfairly maligned for years and I am very glad I have a minter put by that I wear only sparingly. The Japanese models shown there range from very desirable to very meh, more or less in the order they are shown on that article in fact but it is good that there is some recognition for them finally. Prices have certainly firmed a lot in the past 5 years or so from a very low start point, what was ~£500 3 years about is now over a grand for a nice one. The problem is many are not nice since they were sold cheap and for much of the time of their existence, service costs were approaching their value which put owners off a quality service. Here is my SL lume model, here shown on the CK2998 19mm Racing strap, personally I like the uniformity of lume colour on the SL ones, but I get why the pumpkin lume appeals too: