Show me your 167.005 or 168.005 connie

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Following the ‘show me your 2852 connie’ topic, I really think this legendary reference deserves its own topic, instead of the shared ‘vintage Constellation’ thread.

Show me your 167 or 168.005 here! Let’s discuss these marvelous pieces in depth.

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I was looking around for a nice pie pan when this dome dial dogleg 167.005 popped up locally. I went and looked at it and obviously it had never been polished. A cal 551 is probably my favorite works, and though a little scratched from the self-winding block coming loose, it still had an almost mirror finish. Sent it to my watchmaker, and it just purrs. 1953, pretty sweet for a 70 year-old machine. I will attach a real BOR when I find the right parts to complete the one I have that is too short for my 215mm wrists.
 
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well here is one that shows the Omega symbol on the crystal
 
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I was looking around for a nice pie pan when this dome dial dogleg 167.005 popped up locally. 1953, pretty sweet for a 70 year-old machine.

Of course, you meant 1963, 60 year-old machine...

Very nice Constellation, congratulations, pie pans have their place but a simple dogleg dome dial is such an elegant watch to wear.

Interesting to see the details of the CB case, large flat back with no separate circular plane around the medallion (much like that adopted in later references like the 168.010) and distinct turning on the inner case back that almost hides the perlaging (unless that is a trick of the photograph)
 
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Ha Ha, of course I meant 1963 and 60 year-old watch! Thanx for the heads up, at my age the eyes can play tricks on you when you are referencing serial number tables. I do love this watch, but I am still on the hunt for that elusive, quite nice, pie pan.
Excuse my for being such a neophyte Omegan, but I am not familiar with the meaning of CB case. And I was not even aware of what appears to be lathe turning over the perlage until you mentioned it. These images are taken with a Sony a6000 with an adapted high resolution legacy macro lens at just maybe 3-4 inches away. Unlike the expanded depth-of-field with small (tiny) sensor smart phone cameras, the D-o-F at very close distances with large sensors is almost non existent. In other words, if I was focusing on the surface features like the turning, the underlying perlage could be slightly out of focus...unless I took two images and stacked them. Conversely, since I was likely focusing on the stampings, the perlage may actually be on top of the turning, but still be slightly diffused because it was just out of the miniscule depth-of-field. The solution to that is to draw the lens significantly further back, and then crop, but I neglected to do that. Curious combination of finishes, and this will cause me to pay attention to this factor whenever I open an Omega in the future. And I also was not familiar with the existence, or not, of the circular plane around the medallion. Learned a number of the finer points to differentiating Connies. Much appreciated.
 
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CB is just the case manufacturer as opposed to say SGR
 
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Oh, thank you. Do you know what CB or SGR refer to?
 
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It’s who ( a company) rather than what but off the top of my head I don’t know the company names.

I’m sure there are members who do though.
 
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Oh, thank you. Do you know what CB or SGR refer to?

so I had to have a look......

and here is the inner case back of my later 168.005 SGR case
(the circular marks are from rotor rub rather than turning)
 
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That's great info! Never know when the case manufacturer is a checkmark in determining authenticity.

The entire rotor assembly unscrewed itself from the movement on my case, and the screws did scratch up some things, but I didn't see the kind of radial marks on the rotor that I normally associate with clearance issues.

A comment...the inscriptions inside your case back appear to be engraved rather than stamped like mine. Generally I would think that this would indicate a higher level of production. I will have to look more thoroughly into the 168.005. Schild is now a part of Swatch, correct?
 
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🙄 ^ Maybe I get something special for being #100 to say "Dibs"? (please!)👍
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Think I could go for a mint dome dial dog leg like that as well, once I've found my dream Pan Pie.
 
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Think I could go for a mint dome dial dog leg like that as well, once I've found my dream Pan Pie.
I know I should have got the pie pan first, but this was right in front of me and I could not resist. As usual, I do everything backwards
 
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Greatings from a new 168.005 owner.
It really had to grow on me. But after a fee years of collecting, I finaly saw the light.