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Seeking advice on vintage Seamaster
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hang10
·Welcome. There is really no way to verify if the truly genuine without removing the back and inspecting the movement and case back, it appears to be real, but almost certainly has a redial. I'm sure others will chime in with other info.
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X350 XJR
··Vintage Omega AficionadoGenuine, yes, worth buying, no. Dial has been incorrectly refinished, CALENDAR should be below Seamaster and upper case.
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Floridadrew
·Genuine, yes, worth buying, no. Dial has been incorrectly refinished, CALENDAR should be below Seamaster and upper case.
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VetPsychWars
·This is the example image from Omega:
You can see it is not marked "Calendar".
There are instances, believed to be correct, where lettering seems to have been added by the factory after the dial was initially printed.
This may be a case of that.
The dial otherwise looks completely original, so I will say that it is more likely than not that the dial left the factory as you see it.
Don't worry about shields and arrows versus numbers and arrows. Omega themselves state that other dial variations may exist.
I can tell you that I have personally seen the fonts for "Seamaster" and "Calendar" on original dials before, so don't be in any sort of rush to ditch the watch or change the dial. It might be a rare variant.
Tom
You can see it is not marked "Calendar".
There are instances, believed to be correct, where lettering seems to have been added by the factory after the dial was initially printed.
This may be a case of that.
The dial otherwise looks completely original, so I will say that it is more likely than not that the dial left the factory as you see it.
Don't worry about shields and arrows versus numbers and arrows. Omega themselves state that other dial variations may exist.
I can tell you that I have personally seen the fonts for "Seamaster" and "Calendar" on original dials before, so don't be in any sort of rush to ditch the watch or change the dial. It might be a rare variant.
Tom
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X350 XJR
··Vintage Omega AficionadoIs that a rule for all seamaster with the calendar printing? Also, would it be worth it to get the correct dial or just keep looking? Thanks for the lesson!
Strike one, CALENDAR in lowercase and strike two, CALENDAR above Seamaster, the two together strike four. While there are instances of this reference without CALENDAR on the dial, I have never in twenty plus years of buying and selling vintage Omegas seen one like OPs example.
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VetPsychWars
·Strike one, CALENDAR in lowercase and strike two, CALENDAR above Seamaster, the two together strike four. While there are instances of this reference without CALENDAR on the dial, I have never in twenty plus years of buying and selling vintage Omegas seen one like OPs example.
I haven't either. 😀 I hate to be absolutist, but you're probably right.
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Rochete
·Any full frontal dial pic?
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