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MikeMan2727
路Hi all,
I know some of you were likely bidding on this watch a few months back but I wanted to wait until I had more information to do a full write-up.
The watch is an Omega Railmaster 2914-4 with full Arabic numeral luminous dial and syringe luminous hands. It cases a cal. 285 movement with 17,330,101 serial. The crown is Naiad.
Before this watch came up for auction, there wasn't much information online about the Arabic dial variant. There is a small section on The Spring Bar about it, which helped me see a few other examples. One of those examples was sold by the Davidoff Brothers - also a 2914-4 with cal 285 and 17,330,105. Both watches have an OXG movement code, signifying delivery to the USA.
With these few examples, I contacted Omega for more information. I just recently heard back and wanted to share what they found.
My watch was delivered to the USA in July 1960 and produced in a 10 watch run which also included the Davidoff watch. There were no Railmasters produced directly before or directly after this batch. There were four additional batches of 10 created after the gap, all of which were Railmaster 2914 delivered to the USA. This would suggest that there were potentially up to 50 made.
Unfortunately, the archives do not contain any information about the special dial or why it was made. It is reasonable to conclude this was some sort of special order / limited run, but beyond that would be speculative.
If someone has another example, please let me know!
I know some of you were likely bidding on this watch a few months back but I wanted to wait until I had more information to do a full write-up.
The watch is an Omega Railmaster 2914-4 with full Arabic numeral luminous dial and syringe luminous hands. It cases a cal. 285 movement with 17,330,101 serial. The crown is Naiad.
Before this watch came up for auction, there wasn't much information online about the Arabic dial variant. There is a small section on The Spring Bar about it, which helped me see a few other examples. One of those examples was sold by the Davidoff Brothers - also a 2914-4 with cal 285 and 17,330,105. Both watches have an OXG movement code, signifying delivery to the USA.
With these few examples, I contacted Omega for more information. I just recently heard back and wanted to share what they found.
My watch was delivered to the USA in July 1960 and produced in a 10 watch run which also included the Davidoff watch. There were no Railmasters produced directly before or directly after this batch. There were four additional batches of 10 created after the gap, all of which were Railmaster 2914 delivered to the USA. This would suggest that there were potentially up to 50 made.
Unfortunately, the archives do not contain any information about the special dial or why it was made. It is reasonable to conclude this was some sort of special order / limited run, but beyond that would be speculative.
If someone has another example, please let me know!
