Seamaster Chronograph - 12h Subdial without snailing

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inversepanda

·Feb 10, 2024

Just curious, has anyone ever seen or come across any vintage Seamaster Chronographs with the 12 hour subdial without snailing? There is silver sunburst in the center of the dial, and typically it "skips" the chronograph registers... and I've never seen where the sunburst goes across the subdial as well.

Thoughts?

 

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Davidt

·Feb 10, 2024

If you’re asking if the dial is genuine - it is. The concentric circles can be hard to photograph

 

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Dan S

·Feb 10, 2024

Davidt

If you’re asking if the dial is genuine - it is. The concentric circles can be hard to photograph

I agree that dial looks legit. It's interesting though, that the sunburst finish runs visibly right across the sub-dial.

 

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spacemission

·Feb 10, 2024

Will you pay more than $5000 for this watch? 😲

 

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Dan S

·Feb 10, 2024

Should there be lume at the outer ends of the dial markers, to match the hands?

 

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inversepanda

·Feb 10, 2024

Davidt

If you’re asking if the dial is genuine - it is. The concentric circles can be hard to photograph

Dan S

I agree that dial looks legit. It's interesting though, that the sunburst finish runs visibly right across the sub-dial.

That’s the thing, everything dial wise looks kosher on this except the 12h subdial with the finish running through it, never seen that on any 321 Seamasters (or vintage chrono’s in general), but here we are. Tried looking at other photos of the same watch but doesn’t look like there’s concentric snailing anywhere?

2nd point. Do the hands look okay? Somehow the hour hand looks a little “fatter” than other examples of similar references…

 

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inversepanda

·Feb 10, 2024

Dan S

Should there be lume at the outer ends of the dial markers, to match the hands?

Doesn’t look like a non-lume example, seems more like someone removed all the tritium. Hmm.

 

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skand

·Feb 11, 2024

I have 105.004-64 but without a tachymeter, so it will be difficult to compare

 

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X350 XJR

·Feb 11, 2024·Vintage Omega Aficionado

Looks like there are traces left...and the edges of the sub dials are not as crisp as expected.

I vote redial.

 

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YYTIN

·Feb 11, 2024

^ looks like you’ve found the explanation !

 

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Davidt

·Feb 11, 2024

I still think the dial is original and the anomaly with the subdial is a QC issue. Everything else about the dial is fine imo.

 

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inversepanda

·Feb 11, 2024

X350 XJR

Looks like there are traces left...and the edges of the sub dials are not as crisp as expected.

I vote redial.

I had the same thoughts too. But the printing is too good (too “accurate”?), unless it was a redial by Omega? But why would Omega themselves make a mistake like this? Or someone was able to get the exact print ball/pad?

Or perhaps a special order of some sort. Did Omega ever comply to customer requests?

Here’s another pic from IG:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvnHIo1rxtF/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

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inversepanda

·Feb 11, 2024

Looks like the sunburst is going across some parts of the other subdials also..

 

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Boojumhunter

·Feb 11, 2024

I can't say whether legit, abberation, redial... but I know with my OCD I'd always be looking and wondering about it. Hard pass for me for that reason alone. And this from a guy who has a HUGE tolerance for patina and dings.

 

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duffy7

·Feb 11, 2024

To me the hour hand seems to be too thick compared with other examples.

The dial was worked on before. They took away all the lume from the hour indices.

Just one subdial without concentric circles (and it seems that it isn't just the photo) would make me a bit nervous.