Question for the Box and Papers experts, Cal.320 Omega 2872

Hi OF,

caused by a recent thread about a cal. 320 Omega, I went on ebay to see if anything good is available at the moment and came across a rather nice 2872, the reference I personally find the most attractive out of all the 320 caliber Omegas.

Seller listed it as a full set, Box Papers and everything.

The question is not so much about the watch itself (dial has some problems, case is a bit too polished for my taste) but about the paperwork he provides with the watch.

First of all let me say that I'm not accusing the seller of anything fishy, I just want to understand what happened here:

Here is a picture of the Booklet, filled out, numbers match with the watch, everything seems legit.



But on a more close inspection I recognized some oddyties

The last letter of the buyers last name and the last number of the purchase Date have been obviously added with a different pen and color.

The whole text seems abpruptly cut off in some rows.

Does someone know what could have caused this?

Was there some sort of punch-paper, for the store to keep, that didn't connect far enough to get the last letters?

The "watermark" lines of the background are consistent and extend over the "cut-off" edge so I don`t believe that there is some ill intended trickery going on.

Just curious about your thoughts on this and hope to learn something new.

Cheers,

Max

I see what you mean.

There's effectively two different shades of ink here, the faded older looking one and the more modern looking darker ink.

Could be editing or could just be the tool they were using to punch in the letters ran out of ink.

I'm not going to comment on authenticity as this is left to more capable members. I'm just going by what I see.

Personally the watch looks good, almost modern. I would purchase it if the price is low enough.

I have drawn a line into your picture.
My educated guess is that there was originally a layer of carbon copy paper and the original copy for the dealer on top of the form.
These were attached with some adhesive to the right of the line.
The dealer used the form a little bit to excessive and wrote over the area where the carbon paper ended (as well on the machine typed prefilling as on the final manual writing.
After removing his original and the carbon copy paper, he noticed his mistake and fixed at least his manual writing with the ball pen that was also used to fill out the original.

Thanks @Slowpoker and @Georgieboy58 , that'll be the most likely scenario and my initial thought. Does someone know if the booklets were prestamped by Omega? As the font used for the Mov. No. and Ref is different from the font used for the seller info field (compare the 7's).


Cheers,

Max

My guess here:
When the watches were received by the dealer, some employee filled in the papers with the individual watch data (serial# and model) using a typewriter.
For the dealer data they used a stamp, hence the weaker, more blurry imprint compared to the watch data.

It looks really nice is it all correct dial hands winding crown etc

It is indeed quite nice for a 2872. This ref is known to have problems with dial deterioration, from which this example didn't suffer too much. There are some problems with the Tachymeter scale track and I'm not sure if the crown is correct for this reference. Also the case was a bit too much polished in the past.
I'm hesitating to pull the trigger, the watch is now up for a couple of days, and I think if everything would be 10/10 it would be long gone for the price the seller is asking. But it's still there.

As I was advised when I got mine - the case offers no moisture or dust resistance because of the ‘square’ pushers.
I do wear mine but only if there is no chance of rain. (And never in Kuwait)
The OP looks like an interesting two-tone dial but does have some problems around the bottom of the dial and the case has been polished.
I understand there were at least two types of crown - mine is like this one so it could be original.
What’s the asking price?

The polished case doesn’t bother me to much it’s more the authenticity of the piece

As far as I know, the dial, hands and indicies are all correct for this reference @Snowman

I've send you a PM @Peemacgee

The piece looks pretty authentic, nothing redone minus a bit of polishing and cleaning. Papers check out too so if the price is right I would pull the trigger.

Waiting For info from very trusted source locked and loaded

Trigger pulled

Nice! Congrats @Snowman
I'm not even mad, you kind of saved me from going in over my head, as the budged this month was more or less spent on other things already.

Please do share if you get the watch 😀. Let my call DIBS on it just for ease of mind 😉.

Cheers,

Max

Cheers will be intouch if successful
Possibly might have to explain to wife how I have bought two vintage watches in two months
Hell hath no fury
Best