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masteroftime
·Hello All,
After being a long time lurker, I figured it would time for me to make an account and hopefully become more active on this forum. I have a moderate level of experience with watches just by being an enthusiast growing up, but I don't know too much about vintage Seamasters and would love to get your thoughts on a recent purchase.
After watching an online auction a month (+/-) back and narrowly missing a gold capped 168.022, I started periodically checking different platforms in search of finding another. In my searches, I came across ones with the so called "sparkle" dials and felt like I needed to have one. After having a few sales fall through, I found the one pictured below coming from Japan. Although, the watch has definitely been worn, the movement, dial, and case seemed to be in great shape and have the original finish (?). It also has an original omega crystal and came with an Omega mesh bracelet as pictured (ref 2038). At $882, it seemed like a decent price (the bracelet alone seems to selling around $200-300) so I snapped it up and it arrived in a few days.
I have had it for about a week and the watch keeps decent time (+20 seconds). I assume it hasn't been serviced in a little while. Considering the bracelet is 18mm rather than 19mm, am I correct in assuming that it isn't original to the watch? Do any of you know what steel bracelet would have come with this model? As far as I can tell, I don't see any major issues, but I would appreciate it if any of you could point out any that you see. I did notice some wear marks from the rotor and I read on the forum that this can be common on these movements. Is this a cause for concern? Would the rotor or winding bridge have to be replaced? Thank you!
Note: I took the photos with the red backdrop. The others are from the listing description.
After being a long time lurker, I figured it would time for me to make an account and hopefully become more active on this forum. I have a moderate level of experience with watches just by being an enthusiast growing up, but I don't know too much about vintage Seamasters and would love to get your thoughts on a recent purchase.
After watching an online auction a month (+/-) back and narrowly missing a gold capped 168.022, I started periodically checking different platforms in search of finding another. In my searches, I came across ones with the so called "sparkle" dials and felt like I needed to have one. After having a few sales fall through, I found the one pictured below coming from Japan. Although, the watch has definitely been worn, the movement, dial, and case seemed to be in great shape and have the original finish (?). It also has an original omega crystal and came with an Omega mesh bracelet as pictured (ref 2038). At $882, it seemed like a decent price (the bracelet alone seems to selling around $200-300) so I snapped it up and it arrived in a few days.
I have had it for about a week and the watch keeps decent time (+20 seconds). I assume it hasn't been serviced in a little while. Considering the bracelet is 18mm rather than 19mm, am I correct in assuming that it isn't original to the watch? Do any of you know what steel bracelet would have come with this model? As far as I can tell, I don't see any major issues, but I would appreciate it if any of you could point out any that you see. I did notice some wear marks from the rotor and I read on the forum that this can be common on these movements. Is this a cause for concern? Would the rotor or winding bridge have to be replaced? Thank you!
Note: I took the photos with the red backdrop. The others are from the listing description.
