Hello all,
I own two vintage omega watches and was hoping this is right place to get more information on more information on them. One I inherited from my grandfather and I believe is from the 1950s. I work as a pawnbroker in Wisconsin and bought the other off a customer and from what I can tell is either from the 60-70s. Both have some cosmetic issues but look to be 100 percent real with telling signs of omega authenticity. The newer watch seems to take a battery but doesn’t have a case back that seems assemble like the 1950s watch, so I have no idea how to open it and check the serial and change the battery when the times comes. I’m ordering new crystals from England for both just to get them in newer condition. I’ve attached some photos of my watches and any insight or information you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all!

 

Both are Automatic watches and front loader watches. (Movement comes out the front once crystal and stem is removed)

A Omega parts account watchmaker can service these and get them up to decent time keeping.
Ask him to take a few pictures of the movement and inside back of the case for model #s

Those flexfit bracelets are not the best for the lugs of these watches so I would remove them if I was you.

They don’t seem to be in to bad of shape from the pictures. Service and a new or polished crystal

 

Those are both reasonably valuable watches. Neither can be serviced at the mall. As STANDY says, find a qualified watchmaker to sort them out. Well worth the time and money.

Definitely no need to look in England for crystals. Plenty in the US.

 

A pawn broker who doesn't know what they are buying is paying pennies and rolling the dice. I'm sure you're safe in your purchase

 

So a pawn broker thinks that an automatic watch takes a battery. Is that you, Dennis?

 

So automatic means no battery? I’m sorry I’m so ignorant to all of this, when he brought it in it was running really strong and hasn’t stopped running with minimal movement, where my grandpas watch’s takes a lot of movement to maintain time. I joined this forum to learn and become more educated on what I have.

 

That’s 95 percent of my job, we also you a authentication app, but I checked for the omega symbol on the stem, placement of the omega symbol on the casing, Swiss made on the bottom, etc. again this is a learning experience for me and he only wanted 50 dollars for it because I usually deal with pretty desperate people at my job. I’m just trying to learn about what I have so that I can educate myself

 

So you gave him $15