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·Sorry to bother you gurus with this post.
I am considering an Omega 145.014 Racing dial watch (serial number starting with 32, indicating year of 1970) from Chrono24. The seller is a dealer from Japan with almost 5 out 5 feedbacks with more than 100 positive reviews. The conversation with the seller is very smooth so far. The watch looks fine, runs fine (seller shared the timegrapher pictures) and the owner is wiling to share with me close-up pictures of the dial. The attached, please find one of those pictures of the dial. However, I do have a few questions/suspicions:
(1). I don't see the clear thin ring/circle patterns under the three choronograph hands. If I zoomed in, it seems that there are some vague ring/circle patterns, especially under 60-seconds chronograph hand. I do find a few watches of the same model sold on this forum do have very crisp ring/circle patterns. For example: https://omegaforums.net/threads/1972-omega-speedmaster-mkii-racing-dial-145-014-serviced.27701/ and https://omegaforums.net/threads/stunning-omega-speedmaster-markii-145-014-with-racing-dial.61218/.
My question is: do all 145.014 original dials have such ring/circle patterns or those patterns only with certain year but not all of the years who this model was produced. I asked the owner whether he/she can see the ring/circle pattens, he/she said that he/she could not notice. The first picture is the watch that I am considering. The second picture is the example from a sold watch on this forum previously. You can see the ring/circle pattern.
(2). Is this dial a refurnished dial? or repainted dial? For example, one of white ticks between 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock was discontinued (please see the red circle on the picture). And the thickness of some white ticks seems to not very uniform.
I would appreciate your suggestions and inputs very much!
I am considering an Omega 145.014 Racing dial watch (serial number starting with 32, indicating year of 1970) from Chrono24. The seller is a dealer from Japan with almost 5 out 5 feedbacks with more than 100 positive reviews. The conversation with the seller is very smooth so far. The watch looks fine, runs fine (seller shared the timegrapher pictures) and the owner is wiling to share with me close-up pictures of the dial. The attached, please find one of those pictures of the dial. However, I do have a few questions/suspicions:
(1). I don't see the clear thin ring/circle patterns under the three choronograph hands. If I zoomed in, it seems that there are some vague ring/circle patterns, especially under 60-seconds chronograph hand. I do find a few watches of the same model sold on this forum do have very crisp ring/circle patterns. For example: https://omegaforums.net/threads/1972-omega-speedmaster-mkii-racing-dial-145-014-serviced.27701/ and https://omegaforums.net/threads/stunning-omega-speedmaster-markii-145-014-with-racing-dial.61218/.
My question is: do all 145.014 original dials have such ring/circle patterns or those patterns only with certain year but not all of the years who this model was produced. I asked the owner whether he/she can see the ring/circle pattens, he/she said that he/she could not notice. The first picture is the watch that I am considering. The second picture is the example from a sold watch on this forum previously. You can see the ring/circle pattern.
(2). Is this dial a refurnished dial? or repainted dial? For example, one of white ticks between 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock was discontinued (please see the red circle on the picture). And the thickness of some white ticks seems to not very uniform.
I would appreciate your suggestions and inputs very much!