The * who sold me a redialed ww2 omega also sold me this seamaster linen with this bracelet on it. He described it as desireable and rare (which i doubt now) - however, i cant find it on the internet. Its stamped No12 inside the buckle and "Pet Peno". Ive tried to google this but couldnt find anthing.

Please advise.

 

I do not think this bracelet is very rare. I just picked up a gold plate one and half a stainless steel one in lot of bracelets from the bay. I don't know anything about them however. Please post a photo of your linen dial. That may be more rare!

 

Actually marked PAT PEND - Patent Pending.

Fairly common 1960s piece

 

Oh. I thought Pat Pending was the younger brother of Mike Pending. Just goes to show.

Bracelet is fairly common, but neat machine work and centre rib. Cost a fortune to produce today to that level of quality.

Cheers

Desmond

 

thanks for the quick replies. i would like to buy more of these bracelets (they are lovely to wear) but cant find any on ebay. what do i need to enter and how much do these cost?

 

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There's no specific reference number on your bracelet so you'd have to search for all the Omega bracelets on eBay to find the one that looks like this. As to cost, $150 or less is fair price, shouldn't be more than $200.

 

Here are 1.5 of these bracelets:

 

They also don't have specific reference number either...

 

No they don't, nor a date code. They look like stretch bracelets but they don't stretch.

 

They look like my JB champion bracelet i got . But mine has a middle strech part instead of a clasp . I think this where made by JB .

 

Bumping an old thread with a bunch of questions... Anyone else around here have one? Is there a name for this style of bracelet? What watches did these come on and would it be appropriate for any Seamaster?

 

Forgive the tags... any ideas?

@X350 XJR @cristos71 @gatorcpa

 

There are some that are similar in the mid 60's catalogs here- I could have sworn I had seen this one but couldn't find it on a quick search.

http://www.old-omegas.com


@Lucasssssss may have more info as he's trying to write the ultimate bracelet tome at some point

 

Do you recall which catalog you said you saw it in. I just looked through all the 60's catalogs and the only think I found similar was a 9ct gold watch with a gold bracelet but distinctly different.

 

I don’t unfortunately, I looked at so much damn litererure trying to find another bracelet I have and don’t remember where I saw it-but I do remember seeing several like yours in a row in technicolor graphics. I remember thinking they looked like JB Champion bracelets but with Omega clasps.
If I recall they weren’t paired with Seamaster’s or Connie’s, but that doesn’t mean anything as several of the case shapes are shared across the range and a dealer would have put whatever they had on hand on a watch if it fit.

 

I really don't know anything about these, I've seen them before but never found them attractive enough to persue.

 

While going through those catalogs I was surprised at how many bracelets are advertised for specifically being paired with a specific model - especially the 5 or 7-row BoR. But yeah, whatever someone asked for in the store they got.

 

I have actually gotten lucky with 2 odd-ball bracelets (I’ve talked about them in other threads), with the help of the catalogs. I questioned the one on my ‘62 Seamaster, but it is indeed original to that watch and was a 1 year only style.

The other bracelet I got was a late 60’s style on a late 50’s Seamaster- clearly not correct and it looked plain bad. The catalogs (along with lots of web searching) helped me figure out that is was ‘68-71 era, for the Round cases Connie’s or SM’s with angular lugs... but was only shown on a Connie in print- that one I have paired with my SM Companion and it’s a great match- Omega couldn’t have imagined it better.

Trying to find anything even using the clasp numbers can be a nightmare so I just went the slow way and searched every piece in literature I could find online by year.
I wish we had a library of high resolution scans of all Omega literature in the possession of the collective here (brochures, dealer red books, service manuals, part and price sheets etc) - I am willing to bet that it would be pretty comprehensive if everyone pitched in.

 

I have always called them 'filo-flex' bracelets, this is probably not the accepted nomenclature, I have also seen people call them 'stretch' bracelets.

There is a fair amount of piecemeal discussion on these style of bracelets around here. The Omega Admiralty came on one (ref. 1122) with both 558 and 563 endlinks, I have also seen the 1122 on some Geneves (ref. 166.041). From some research I believe that the a stretch bracelet (ref. 1500r) were also an option on the Constilation 2652, with #5 endlinks, and on seamasters with #10 endlinks.

There are quite a variety of these stretch bracelets, the most common being the 1122, I actually haven't seen many with a ridge down the middle, and these seem somewhat rarer than the more common 1122. I would be appreciative of more photos of this bracelet; especially the endlinks.

As I am sure you know, many of these bracelets were installed at the the dealers, so it is doubtful that there will be a specific reference for this bracelet, it is often a bit of a jigsaw puzzle between the endlinks and the case profile. From my research these flex bracelets were introduced around 1965 and lasted until around 1970, so I would imagine that the best fitment would be of cases of this period.