Also, what does "Case Back have the Serial different to the Movement" mean?

 

If u notice it's actually a 2914 but the case back is 135.004 which is not correct for this watch . It's a mix and match

 

I´m absolutely no expert on these but it looks to me like this could be a simple case of watchmakers swapsy during servicing of multiple FAP Railmasters. Otherwise what´s the probable chance of having a FAP 2914 missing a caseback together with a FAP 135.004 caseback missing the rest and then making a watch out of them ?

 

It certainly looks a little bit mix and match Railmaster ...I'm no expert by any shape or form but I've been emailing the seller he's happy to sell for $4700 don't know if this is a good price or not .

 

Thats a huge red flag.

 

@michael e

He is the current expert on PAF in my book

 

Bidding is reaching the $3k mark someone wants this watch really badly.

 

If its legit, its worth 5X that...so if the seller is willing to take $4700 what does this say?

 

Totally agree with the above.
2914-5 with correct marking "PAF" on the movement and correct serial range. The case back is from a PAF 135.004 this is still correct but not for this watch. (135.004s do not have "PAF" on the movement)
Somewhere out there is a PAF 135.004 with a 2914-5 case back on probably.
I would buy this watch just for the dial and case or in the hope I find the 135.004 with the 2914-5 case back

 

So, who is gonna grab it?

 

Me or someone else
It will be good to see it go to the end, I haven't auctioned a complete matching numbers one so it will be nice to see what it goes for with wrong case back.

 

My kick at the can:

If Omega machined "seamaster" into the back cover, wouldn't they would do it in the correct font, its an anal corporate thing.

If the military customer did the machining of the back cover why would they bother with the word "seamaster", they would put on the important stuff: PAF, item number, maybe "watch-waterproof", a contract or military specification number but not seamaster, the military doesn't care about trade names.

Looks to me like somebody has access to a machine to engrave metal and is making "military" timepieces in his spare time......

I know absolutely nothing about the PAF Omega watches, but if the back is questionable, how much of the rest of the watch is?

 

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I cannot see anything questionable about the watch apart from the mismatched case back.
I have the same engraving too, rare but nothing unusual.

 

I thought 135.004 caseback is supposed to look like this:

 

I have found two types of 135.004 case backs as above , the in the 21xxxxx range also had a T SWISS T dial as opposed to SWISS only as found on all the others I have owned.

 

The case back for 2914 should have the same movement number as this watch movement number . In my opinion it will be impossible to find . Micheal is absolutely right in his comments.

 

listing has ended..... how got the watch ? someone from OF ?