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Prabstar1
路Thanks so much for your advice and patience guys.
Opinion on this vintage Omega please!
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Prabstar1
路The forum is not who will be wearing it and (presumably) looking at it on a daily basis - YOU will 馃槈
Not all redials are the work if sharpie wielding, sausage-fingered incompetents, and in my humble opinion, the watch you have pictured looks attractive (I have no idea if it is mechanically sound). It never left the Omega factory looking like that, and you'll not get many takers from the collector community if you later decide to sell it here.
But there is a wider (some would say less discerning) market for such redials. If there wasn't, nobody would produce them. Go into such a purchase with your eyes open, and after digesting and weighing all advice.
At the end of the day, it's your money you'll be spending and your wrist it will be sitting on.
Apparently it is running well and has been serviced (i have been warned about this on the forum and am taking heed).
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Edward53
路If you know for certain that you will always like the redial you buy, fine. But as you learn about watches, you become discriminating, personal taste develops and what appealed at first often appeals no longer. You then find out that a redial is extremely difficult to sell on for what you paid.
As I see it, you have three options.
1. Buy the redial and continue to learn about watch collecting, and accept that you may lose money on it at some future date.
2. Buy the redial then stay away from watch forums, thus ensuring you don't become discriminating and remain happy with your redial.
3. Stay on here, learn what you can about watches for a few months and buy something when you are better informed.
I suggest Option 3, but I write from the perspective of having bought in a hurry when I was a new collector, with predictable results.
As I see it, you have three options.
1. Buy the redial and continue to learn about watch collecting, and accept that you may lose money on it at some future date.
2. Buy the redial then stay away from watch forums, thus ensuring you don't become discriminating and remain happy with your redial.
3. Stay on here, learn what you can about watches for a few months and buy something when you are better informed.
I suggest Option 3, but I write from the perspective of having bought in a hurry when I was a new collector, with predictable results.
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fjf
路I also vote for option 3 馃嵖
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Archer
路路Omega Qualified WatchmakerIf you know for certain that you will always like the redial you buy, fine. But as you learn about watches, you become discriminating, personal taste develops and what appealed at first often appeals no longer. You then find out that a redial is extremely difficult to sell on for what you paid.
I have seen this exact scenario play out countless times...
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Prabstar1
路I have taken all your advice onboard and I decided not to buy the redial. I am going to do more research and then spend a little more to buy a good vintage watch. I have my eye possibly on a rolex oyster perpetual.
