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marturx
路Yes, it would be hard not to admit, even on an Omega forum!馃憤
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路Yeah! Especially with the gilt hands which are still a mysterium in my Rolex studies. Did they get gilt over the time by a kind of corrosion or did they leave the factory in gilt color? Optically the first variant seems appropriate to me me.
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路路Spell Master!Gorgeus...I have a 1971 4 line 5512. (My birth year, I got slouch as to find it) Don't have the original bracelet though.
The only thing that makes me wonder is the bezel. On one hand I thought the 61 would have the kissing 40, on the other the marker on the triangle seems not to be centered right which is odd to me but maybe that's the way it is?
The only thing that makes me wonder is the bezel. On one hand I thought the 61 would have the kissing 40, on the other the marker on the triangle seems not to be centered right which is odd to me but maybe that's the way it is?
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LarryG
路Cant quite tell, but if that a '61 PCG which the title tells me it is, then the dial is wrong, a lovely gilt but not from PCG era. 61 s/b chapter ring and swiss.
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LarryG
路Not mine, but:
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路路Spell Master!Not mine, but:
I may be wrong but this one is a 4 line like mine. Where there any 4 lines in 61? I thought they came a bit later?
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路路Spell Master!Yeah, just looked it up. 4 line is mid sixties and above. The 1961 should be a first or second generation with the pointed crown guards, which based on rhe pics this may have but can't get the angle to be sure.
Still the bezel may be wrong and the can't tell on the crown.
Still the bezel may be wrong and the can't tell on the crown.
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LarryG
路Sergio, while there are 4 line t<25 in mid 60's, the one I showed is correct and very desirable.
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路路Spell Master!Cool, had no idea there where 5512 4 line watches as early as 61. One more thing to know....
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Teodoro Freeman
路Good catch, the
Yes you are quite right. The watch is undoubtedly a 5512 from 1961 in all its parts with a cal. 1560 (crown guards are present) anyhow the dial is most likely a little bit younger (let's say 64-65) and coming from a 5513 that mounted instead a cal.1530 which was not a certified chronometer (that's why SCOC is not present)
Cant quite tell, but if that a '61 PCG which the title tells me it is, then the dial is wrong, a lovely gilt but not from PCG era. 61 s/b chapter ring and swiss.
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Teodoro Freeman
路Just to clarify I didn't temper the watch, I simply found it out by studying it
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路路Spell Master!What style crown guards are they? I can't tell if they're the pointed ones.
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everestx
路They look like pointy crown guards to me. I had a gilt '61 PCG 4 line years ago that I foolishly sold..
I couldn't tell you much about the insert as it was too faded to be of use..馃槈
Excuse the poor photo.
I couldn't tell you much about the insert as it was too faded to be of use..馃槈
Excuse the poor photo.
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路路Spell Master!Valuable case then...
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everestx
路A poor attempt at humor but what I actually thought when I first saw the watch. It turned out to be the original insert that had just faded into what most call a ghost bezel.
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Teodoro Freeman
路What style crown guards are they? I can't tell if they're the pointed ones.
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LarryG
路Everest, that one was a beaut, down to the exclamation point!
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Rick T
路Isn't it lovely?
