Recommended Vintage OMEGA WATCHES (only) On EBAY (NOT for Inquiries)

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I wrote this post myself at 7:10AM after staying up until 3AM watching the F1 and I have NFI what this means in English at all. I was sober btw.

No doubt you’re worn out by your hard work bringing us a great range of top quality Omegas at bargain prices.

Without your diligence and enthusiasm, this wouldn’t be the great thread it is.

We can live with a few linguistic and grammatical anomalies. We salute you 😀
 
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No doubt you’re worn out by your hard work bringing us a great range of top quality Omegas at bargain prices.

Without your diligence and enthusiasm, this wouldn’t be the great thread it is.

We can live with a few linguistic and grammatical anomalies. We salute you 😀
Absolutely, I wonder how many of these watches are going to forum members?
 
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Absolutely, I wonder how many of these watches are going to forum members?
There have been a lot recently PM me with them after they arrive or letting me know they picked them up especially the Geneves and Seamaster Devilles on the entry level, pretty much all of them are buying to wear not to just collect too which is cool as I genuinely feel that 60s Omegas are among the best affordable way into a quality Swiss watch out there.
 
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I wrote this post myself at 7:10AM after staying up until 3AM watching the F1 and I have NFI what this means in English at all. I was sober btw.

Well, quali was a bit crazy, so that could explain part of your mental state at that time
 
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still 8 days to go, and it is getting near to $1000 USD, I have been looking for a nice Omega Seamaster gold case dress watch for a long time, ideally 1960 ( the year I was born ), sadly the condition of most of these sixties watches are in a pretty bad way, with no service records, so you have to factor in a major service of £250 ( 300 euros ) on top
 
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UK watch, really pretty rose gold capped Constellation Piepan hidden crown with the larger 35.5mm case and non-luminous dial & hands, Calibre 564 ref 168.010. These have a really substantial wrist presence and are a great piece to daily wear.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125266753794?hash=item1d2a7af902:g:WKwAAOSwpv1iOhuB

5 hours left on this in the UK tonight

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125266753794

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This is a really, really nice Constellation Day-Date Ref 168.016. Sharp, clean case edges and facets, dial and hands are great, Cal 751 movement. These don’t really go as high as many other Connies as they don’t have piepan dials or the more traditional case designs but they’re great pieces and wear larger than others as well. Was almost tempted to bid on this one myself.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394045750603?hash=item5bbef4fd4b:g:g0MAAOSwaOhiRd63&LH_Auction=1

 
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I love how the magnified date window shouts “FRIDAY!!!”
But maybe that’s just me wishing it wasn’t only Tuesday.
 
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This is a really, really nice Constellation Day-Date Ref 168.016. Sharp, clean case edges and facets, dial and hands are great, Cal 751 movement. These don’t really go as high as many other Connies as they don’t have piepan dials or the more traditional case designs but they’re great pieces and wear larger than others as well. Was almost tempted to bid on this one myself.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394045750603?hash=item5bbef4fd4b:g:g0MAAOSwaOhiRd63&LH_Auction=1

It's very nice, but there's just something about baton style hands on Connies that doesn't work for me. The dauphine hands just seem so much more appropriate.
 
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I like these (the 168.016 and the 168.018) because they are very subtly of their precise era (very late 60s / early 70s) without screaming it in the manner of (for example) a c-case. Mixed brushed and polished surfaces, flat dial and moderately-but-not-excessively chunky batons contrast with the polished surfaces, domed dials and narrower hands of mid-160s cases such as the 168.010 or Seamaster De Ville, and yet it's still of the same generic style.
 
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I like these (the 168.016 and the 168.018) because they are very subtly of their precise era (very late 60s / early 70s) without screaming it in the manner of (for example) a c-case. Mixed brushed and polished surfaces, flat dial and moderately-but-not-excessively chunky batons contrast with the polished surfaces, domed dials and narrower hands of mid-160s cases such as the 168.010 or Seamaster De Ville, and yet it's still of the same generic style.
They take on a very different look too once you put them on the beads of rice 7-row which fits quite well and gives the thin lugs a more substantial feel. This is just an example. When you compare the price of this to a similar hidden crown Day Date they’re just an incredible deal as a daily wearer and as you say, are a lot more contemporary and less quirky than the C-case.

 
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This is a really, really nice Constellation Day-Date Ref 168.016. Sharp, clean case edges and facets, dial and hands are great, Cal 751 movement. These don’t really go as high as many other Connies as they don’t have piepan dials or the more traditional case designs but they’re great pieces and wear larger than others as well. Was almost tempted to bid on this one myself.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/394045750603?hash=item5bbef4fd4b:g:g0MAAOSwaOhiRd63&LH_Auction=1

I saw this one earlier today, something familiar about it, it's sold before, but now relisted again.
 
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There have been a lot recently PM me with them after they arrive or letting me know they picked them up especially the Geneves and Seamaster Devilles on the entry level, pretty much all of them are buying to wear not to just collect too which is cool as I genuinely feel that 60s Omegas are among the best affordable way into a quality Swiss watch out there.
That's good to know that people on the Forum are buying them and wearing them. I agree with you regarding your comment on 60s Omegas. I got stuck in a Speedmaster shaped rut. Now after following this thread I'm thoroughly out of the Speedmaster rut and in to a 50's/60's Seamaster rut. Only at a fraction of the cost. So thank you for getting me back to where I started.
 
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5 hours left on this in the UK tonight

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125266753794

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just seen the price this went for.

Yes it’s rose gold cap, yes it has a nice pie pan dial but it’s not the sharpest of cases and it sold for £1690 !! (€2000 / $2130)
That’s a huge premium for this reference - ( and that’s coming from someone who is very fond of this reference)
The power of OF?
The seller must be delighted.
 
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just seen the price this went for.

Yes it’s rose gold cap, yes it has a nice pie pan dial but it’s not the sharpest of cases and it sold for £1690 !! (€2000 / $2130)
That’s a huge premium for this reference - ( and that’s coming from someone who is very fond of this reference)
The power of OF?
The seller must be delighted.
Most of the ones I post here actually don’t go that high, I think the main thing with this one is it being in the UK which is a pretty isolated market right now for tax reasons and there being a shortage of non-redialed piepans there
 
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These are cool, overlooked but cool. Reference 166.0141, 1970s with a strange barcode motif but and a square-ish but with the venerable Calibre 750 day-date movement in it, so it’ll be a good watch to wear. I’d try to find a really funky strap maybe something like Porsche pasha cloth interior to go with the dial even. Nobody really knows or cares about these so it should stay fairly low.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313973672437?hash=item491a4a09f5:g:7F8AAOSwdfFiaRbS&LH_Auction=1

 
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