As I mentioned in WRUW I am currently in Switzerland and yesterday visited the Omega Museum in Bienne. It was a fine visit and we saw some fantastic timepieces which I will post at a later date. However over breakfast this morning as I was reviewing my smartphone photos to my great surprise I came across this one and almost choked on my Alpen Müesli

1950's arrowhead dial Constellation with a T Swiss Made T dial

Crosshairs incomplete

Sure looks like a fake dial to me

It seems they need to do a little work in the due diligence department and find it hard to understand how this one slipped through the net. I'll be sending an email to the museum department first thing Monday morning when I have hopefully gotten over my shock!

 

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Not only that.... wrong font... unaligned MOY... wrong n in Constellation text.........

 

Not entirely unpolished either.

 

Nice box though.

 

What makes you so sure that it is only an incorrect redial?

Surely whether they had the correct die or not Omega and Omega's contractor would know not to sign a non tritium dial with T Swiss Made T, hence my post.

 

Don't I know it

 

Makes me wonder how long that franken's been in the museum..

 

Great point!

...and where's the tritium on that dial? Edit: I forgot about the hands... I suppose it would be there, only...

 

What Omega make a mistake? It can't happen!

My 283 caliber does not have a center second hand but a subsecond dial. And, looking at the movement, it likely left the factory that way even though the 283 is cataloged as a center seconds movement.... Naw.... mistakes never happen, before or after the production line.

Like the picture of the 50s Rolex movement I saw recently..... wrong caliber number and type stamped right into the movement.

I used to have a photo of a special order of two tone painted pickup trucks coming off the line at General Motors, some big corporate special order in company colours.... and the paint on all of the boxes is reversed! The truck cabs are dark green with light panels and the boxes light green with dark panels. 200 hundred were built and they all had to be repainted before they could be shipped. ya gotta love it!

 

A poor redial in the Omega museum? What's next, artificially enhanced and genetically modified plants on a farm? Egomaniacs running for President? The End is Near!!!!

 

To be fair, this was the only dubious watch I saw, the majority of the rest were superb.

 

Did you go back and tell them? Maybe extract some swag in return for a promise not to tell OF? Ooops!

 

The SWISS MADE Jaeger that came back 'restored' from Le Sentier, but never had tritium to begin with.

 

One of my favourites of yesterday.