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PLS Help me to identify this vintage OMEGAs...

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Hey there...

I've came across this ladies watch & tried to identify model on google, but no joy.
The model number is hardly readable, but it looks like 10180487 & serial number on movement is 9321123.
To me it looks like they might be from 30s or 40s maybe, but I have no idea about watches.
Also what they would be worth in this condition? The'yre fully working, but obviously need some attention.


Can anybody help me PLS?

Thank you...

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Dan S
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Yes, it is from the late 30s or early 40s, and it was probably a man's watch. They were smaller at the time. I suppose that the movement is a cal 26.5 of some variety. Not terribly valuable, but a nice enough little watch. 👍
 
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Yes, it is from the late 30s or early 40s, and it was probably a man's watch. They were smaller at the time. I suppose that the movement is a cal 26.5 of some variety. Not terribly valuable, but a nice enough little watch. 👍

Thank you...I've thought it was for ladies as diameter of the case is approx. 280mm...It's really small 😀...
 
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Thank you...I've thought it was for ladies as diameter of the case is approx. 280mm...It's really small 😀...

That's the size of a dinner plate. 😁
 
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Looks to me like all 3 hands are odd. I think second hand is correct and both minute hand and hour hand are incorrect. I think it should have plume hands. Dial appears to be in nice condition but clearer pics would help 😀
 
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Looks to me like all 3 hands are odd. I think second hand is correct and both minute hand and hour hand are incorrect. I think it should have plume hands. Dial appears to be in nice condition but clearer pics would help 😀

I'm not sure what a "plume" hand is, but I think the minute hand is probably correct. Feuille hands were sometimes used with Arabic hour dials.
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I'm not sure what a "plume" hand is, but I think the minute hand is probably correct.
These are plume hands and were commonly found on late 30s early to mid 40s Omega’s. I only own one omega with these hands, and they match the OPs second hand. Here’s an example of plume hands I’ve taken from google:
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If the minute leaf hand is correct then the second hand is incorrect.
 
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These are plume hands and were commonly found on late 30s early to mid 40s Omega’s. I only own one omega with these hands, and they match the OPs second hand. Here’s an example of plume hands I’ve taken from google:
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Thanks for that, I had forgotten about those hands. You're right that those are common on 1930s watches. It's quite hard to say in this case when all three hands are different. The sub-dial hand looks too short to me, so I was assuming it had been replaced, and I like feuille hands with arabic numerals. 😀
 
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Thanks for that, I had forgotten about those hands. You're right that those are common on 1930s watches. It's quite hard to say in this case when all three hands are different. The sub-dial hand looks too short to me, so I was assuming it had been replaced, and I like feuille hands with arabic numerals. 😀
Yeah it’s much more common to find them in 30s than the 40s but I just bought a ‘44 30T2 with these hands and have seen 2 other watches of the same case reference (and hands) dating ‘43, so they do come into the 40s too but are much less common 😀
 
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Thanks for that, I had forgotten about those hands. You're right that those are common on 1930s watches. It's quite hard to say in this case when all three hands are different. The sub-dial hand looks too short to me, so I was assuming it had been replaced, and I like feuille hands with arabic numerals. 😀
I think a clearer photo would make it easier because I agree the sub second hand looks short BUT it could have a very fine tip that we cannot clearly see 😀
 
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Hi all, many thanks for this discussion and valuable information you've shared.

I think overall it's a nice watch, I especially liked the condition of the pretty unpolished case and the dial. The model reminds me of Suverains but the font for the numerals don't match the common examples so I can't exactly call it that.

OllieOnTheRocks OllieOnTheRocks
Looks to me like all 3 hands are odd. I think second hand is correct and both minute hand and hour hand are incorrect. I think it should have plume hands. Dial appears to be in nice condition but clearer pics would help 😀

May I hesitantly add something to this: I also believe that we have three different hands on a single watch but not sure which one is the original. I think the plume hand for the second is indeed from the era. However, the minute hand ("leaf" model) is often found in 1940s Omegas (even a simple "omega 1940s" search on Google gives plenty of fine examples), though it's mostly used in Calatrava models. But admittedly, never saw a Dauphine hand (the one for the hour hand) on a model with Arabic numerals which is why I want to exclude that as a starting point.

Btw, could we call the dial "tropic"? I'm colour-blind so please excuse my misinterpretation 😀
 
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Cal 26,5 indeed. Nice dial! Not sure about the hour hand... at least hour and minute hands do not match. Still a nice piece.
 
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Thanks everyone for your input...

That "280mm" was a typo...I've meant 28mm (at least I know, why it's called "Cal 26.5" 😁)
Regarding to hands I'm not really sure, but checked some google images like the one below & they look odd to me as well...
Hour hand looks like "Dauphine", but the minute one looks like "Leaf"...Will post better pics tomorrow...


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