S SkoghBtw. Looking at the case again, I think I reconsider, looks weird. But the glass was wrong I think. Didn't have that ring inside, have ordered a new one. Maybe that could've been a problem? Photo without the glass:
Damnit should've never started this thread... Now it seems like all of it is wrong 🙁
I don't know how much you spent, but rest assured that many, if not most, of the collectors here have learned far more expensive lessons. Keep learning and you'll make better informed decisions, and if you get a chance to post pictures here before buying you'll get good advice. If it keeps fairly accurate time and looks good, it's still a good watch. I have found that almost nobody outside of these forums will notice the difference.
What he means is that the dial is from a different watch. A redial is when the dial is repainted.
S SkoghI get that. What I don't get is: If the dial is correct then what is the problem with lume? If someone changed the lume or hands, isn't that a redial? (no idea if that's the case here tough)
The hands and dial are also from different watches. AKA a franken-omega. As mentioned above, it's only a redial if it's repainted.
S SkoghI'm so confused. What I think and correct me if I'm wrong.
The dial is legit and correct to the movement. The case, hands and lume/minute markers (5,10 etc) might be from a different watch? Minute markers looks replaced imo. maybe the hands are legit.
What's a redial then? Only if someone has painted it? I thought a redial was if you changes something that's on the dial like hands etc.
Dial: real but doesn’t match case or hands.
Hands: don’t match dial. May or may not go with case.
Movement. Nobody knows. Haven’t seen a photo.
Case: I don’t know, but we’d all learn more from a photo of the inside of the case back (assuming it started life with the case).
Redial = repainted.
Not sure what else I can tell you other than read the stickies threads at the top of the forum. It’s well worth your time.
S SkoghI think I get it now. Would you still call it an Omega? My guess is that most of the Omega vintage are Franken?
You can call it an Omega and 99.99% of the world won’t care. Be honest when you sell it, though. I don’t know how many frankenomegas there are, but it’s not hard to find the original ones.
S SkoghRead above. I don't care what other people think 😀 I want it to be a real Omega for my own reason:
I'm sick and I'm in the end of my disease and want the watch as a symbol for hope. I don't want that hope to be fake. Yes it's cheesy and way to deep but you start thinking about things like that when you're sick 🙁
It's not cheesy at all. I can't think of anything more profound. I think that it's real Omega, and the perfect symbol you were seeking.
S SkoghI think I get it now. Would you still call it an Omega? My guess is that most of the Omega vintage are Franken?
No, need to take the brake in your art of arguing.
Not all vintage Omegas are franken.
Most of them had a few services over the past years, where parts were changed with original (you can call them today vintage as well) parts.
What we are looking here, is a Franken par excellence, because nothing fits well.
Everything vlmea from another watch and hopefully not from a certified watchmaker in the past.
