Hey guys, did I just get taken on this watch? I was reassured that the watch came from his grandfather and that it is fully original. I'm sceptical about the font in Seamaster though. Your thoughts? I don't think I've seen a vintage watch with the lume in this kind of shape either.

 

Here is what I guess I would expect from a vintage watch.
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Redial. Fonts and the T's around SWISS MADE are all from the 60's and that's a 50's watch.

 

I instictively realized it as soon as I say the watch up close. It's too bad because it comes with box, papers and original thick Omega strap. I now have to try and send the package back.

 

Odd that you warned everyone away from the item, then didn't follow your own advice?

 

I do believe this is the case unfortunately.

I worked out a good rapport with the seller with the help from another Forums member. Took a bit of a gamble which as it turns out, didn't work out. With a true vintage dial, this is a really nice package. Still is, depending on your point of view.

 

One more subtle but very good test for these early 1950s Omegas is the relationship between the size and centring of the printed OMEGA and the AUTOMATIC just beneath. The bottom of the right hand sloping upright in the 'A' of Omega should line up with the top of the 'I' in Automatic. Very often a redial gets this wrong, as it has here. But of course the 'T' either side of Swiss Made gives the game away straight off, as Dennis points out.

 

Maybe you could find an original dial loose for it?
Or maybe buy a nice example and swap the dials?
Then you have the package you were hoping for.
Shouldn't be out of the realm

 

Thought about it. Decided against it. The whole package is on it's way back to the seller.

 

Re-listed with no note about the dial...

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The seller truly believes the dial is original / vintage. I gave him my reasons with a lot of patience. But.....

 

Sent him this message:

"Now you know the dial has been refinished, don't you think you should put that in the description?"

His reply:

"It's not refinished"

A complete idiot.

 

You just can't fix stupid....

 

Some people seem to feel that they can abandon all the normal conventions of social behaviour once they start selling something. You find them everywhere, in every market - cars and motorcycles, antiques, classic cameras and especially, it seems, selling vintage watches. You know straightaway who you are dealing with if, when you question some detail regarding the watch, you get in reply a load of arrogant and often aggressive bluster. This seller knows exactly what he is doing. Ignore all the rubbish about his supposed grandfather and him only wearing it twice, etc. If the previous owner only wore it twice how come it needed a redial?

Strangely, a few ordinarily decent, kind, polite people can get behind the wheel of a car and become transformed into an aggressive monster. A similar transformation seems to happen when some people fire up eBay

 

Well said!!

 

It's back.
Careful newbies
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Warning everyone away lessens the field.