Hey OF Members. I have a Chronostop that the dial looks off to me. I recently bought another one and that has me questioning the dial even more. I'm newish to vintage watches but I now have a handful of nice ones so I was hoping I can get some of your options. I didn't think that I would have to worry about a Chronostop as they are relatively inexpensive for vintage Omegas.

Here is the watch in question.

Here is a close up where you can see the tick markers are unevenly spaced and the Red Omega logo has white bleeding out to the right.


Here is a honest Chronostop with some lum missing from the dial but just seams much cleaner. The tick are very even and no white bleeding from behind the omega logo.


Let me know what you guys think as I don't want to overreact.

Thank you in advance for your replies.

Kevin

 

I have seen the same logo printing issue on other dials. Speedy MK2 with racing dial is one.
The issues with the 1/10 second markers and other stuff like the misspelled Geneve (accent) is more problematic IMO.
I would say redial.

 

This is an original dial to my knowledge.

 

Thank you for your response.

 

I am sure others will chime in.
Nice Avatar BTW.
Abarth is legendary......

 

Thank you again. Unfortunately I don't have a vintage one. Still a fun little car for what it is. A lot of bark and no bite.

One day I'll pick up a MK2 with a racing dial.

 

Redial.

Too many inconsistencies, fonts off, minute track not crisp or spaced well and the lume plots are newer than the lume on the hands.

 

Redial.
You can easily find a grey NOS dial: if the price of the watch is honest, you can think to substitute it.

 

If you could provide me with a link I would be grateful.

 

They regularly show up in eBay.
Otherwise try www.cousinsuk.com

 

This chronostop is not one of the best, the Abarth however us a very very cool little city car

 

Definite redial. The Omega logo is far too far to the right (as we look at the picture) - totally uneven against the applied marker at 12.

A few other red flags as well

 

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEdiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal

 

Had a friend with a Ritmo 130TC back in the days. A real blast!
Had my share of Lancia, Fiat and AR. Weird but Clarkson kind of makes sense when trying to explain the unexplainable.
Petrol heads unite!

 

Thanks everyone. I guess I'll ask the person who I bought it from to see if they knew it was a redial as I paid a decent price for it.

 

Nice! Yeah I have mine chipped with ~210 WHP. These guys have a flash tune that is making 237 HP to the wheels out of this 1.4l

 

mine is a 1969.....need a better camera

 

OP's watch is a redial and not a good one. If you paid good money you should return it unless it was disclosed as such.

 

off topic

Where I'm sitting right now, I can see the house of this guy

 

I paid $850 USD for it. For a small non driver Chronostop is that good money. Still new to vintage Omegas.

I contacted the seller and he said he didn't know it was a redial and he paid even more of it then I did. No apologies. Not sure what to do.

Should I find a NOS dial and have it replaced when I have it serviced?

I don't want to sell it in eBay the way it is as the. Someone else will be getting screwed.

Thanks