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Thought I would show off a new acquisition of mine. I noticed a few posts here with the 2943-1 but not the 2043-3, so I thought I would share this one.

This is a Constellation 2943-3-SC with a Calibre 504 of which there were only ~25,000 produced.

This one needs a bit of a service, the crown is broken so I will be ordering a new crown and stem. The crystal is also not original.

Here are some photos. Feel free to leave your thoughts on its condition/originality.
I do suspect the dial has been redone, regardless it is a great looking piece!
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Enjoy!
 
Dero13
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Redialed and case is pretty polished. But as long as you enjoy it that's all that counts 😀
 
Brett2444
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Yeah the polishing is the main detractor, the redial looks pretty good to me.
Its a shame it seems the gold constellation medallion looks to have taken the brunt of the polishing.
 
Peemacgee
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I suspect that, rather than just a redial, the dial is from another watch (e.g. Seamaster ) which has been repainted to look like a Constellation dial.
A 2943 should have an applied 'OMEGA' (and of course Constellations should have an applied star.)

However, I think the repaint looks really quite well done - if whoever did this set up in business repairing knackered Connie dials they could make a killing.

As long as you didn't pay too much for it you can enjoy wearing an attractive watch.
 
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My first Constellation purchase (which I returned) was a 2782 with a similar dial.
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X350 XJR
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I believe that both examples shown in this thread have service dials, not dials which have been refinished.
 
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I believe that both examples shown in this thread have service dials, not dials which have been refinished.

That would be interesting.
Have these dials been discussed on OF before?

Do we know when we think these dials were produced?

The indices are different from one another and the text differs.(with and without OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED)
The first one has large centrally-ridged vertically-ended solid indices, where you would expect them to have flat tops for a Constellation.
The second one has thin indices that didn't appear on Constellations, coupled with large indices - again both with central ridges.

Odd that Omega would produce Constellation service dials that look like this.
 
X350 XJR
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I highly doubt the original tooling and printing plates are still around for any of these.

The two dials we see here have embossed figures rather than applied, much easier and cost effective to produce.
 
Brett2444
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Very interesting, I had not considered the possibility of a service dial.
 
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Come to think of it, considering how many dials of the era had lacquer flaking, it weird that there are not more service dials.
 
hoipolloi
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A few years back, I saw some of those service dials sold by Watchco, Australia.
 
qazwsx1
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I noticed that the star below the word constellation was printed (marked by the red arrow)?
In general, will we see these dots next to the hour-markers (marked by the yellow arrows)?
Also, the quality of printing is not that good.

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I vote for redial.
 
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Brett2444 Brett2444
Thought I would show off a new acquisition of mine. I noticed a few posts here with the 2943-1 but not the 2043-3, so I thought I would share this one.

This is a Constellation 2943-3-SC with a Calibre 504 of which there were only ~25,000 produced.

This one needs a bit of a service, the crown is broken so I will be ordering a new crown and stem. The crystal is also not original.

Here are some photos. Feel free to leave your thoughts on its condition/originality.
I do suspect the dial has been redone, regardless it is a great looking piece!
xu7Qqp3.jpeg
piSjHNB.jpeg

Gh52OxT.jpeg
6bBQMy3.jpeg

Enjoy!
How do you find out how many watches of a particular variety were made?
 
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My Omega Constellation watch (1958) has a Case reference of 2887-2 SC and 505 movement. How can I find out how many of those were made? It would also be good to know why 'Chronometer' is 'Chronometre' on my watch? It belonged to my dad (who was French) and who died in 1964 and the watch has been kept in a cupboard ever since.
 
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Peemacgee Peemacgee
I suspect that, rather than just a redial, the dial is from another watch (e.g. Seamaster ) which has been repainted to look like a Constellation dial.
A 2943 should have an applied 'OMEGA' (and of course Constellations should have an applied star.)

However, I think the repaint looks really quite well done - if whoever did this set up in business repairing knackered Connie dials they could make a killing.

As long as you didn't pay too much for it you can enjoy wearing an attractive watch.
Hey there, looking at possibly buying a 2943-2SC and came across this thread in my research. What do you think of this one? Any chance it's been redialed or taken from another watch?? Thank you!
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Peemacgee
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The images really aren’t great but the ‘Constellation’ doesn’t look right
 
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Peemacgee Peemacgee
The images really aren’t great but the ‘Constellation’ doesn’t look right
Same thought that I had. In addition, the medallion is fair at best. I’d pass.
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qazwsx1
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1775 GBP is pretty high, even if it had the original dial - but that’s not the case here.

I’m just wondering why it was described as ‘The watch’s dial is original and in excellent condition. 😅
 
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1775 GBP is pretty high, even if it had the original dial - but that’s not the case here.

I’m just wondering why it was described as ‘The watch’s dial is original and in excellent condition. 😅
Well, I can think of least one possible. BULLSHIT.
 
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