Mine looks EXACTLY like that. That subdial looks engraved, not die stamped, at least to me. Got it February 1, 2025 at the OB.
Bsowers- definitely not trying to undermine your feelings, it's great you're chill about it... but I can see this with my naked eye.
I guess no one gave ya the message: you look better wearing the snoopy when you ain't wearing your glasses.
I wouldn't. If I were Omega I would replace these dials as they come in for service or as Service is requested and never confirm publicly there was an "error."
That'd be the Rolex play.
Too late. Once you see it, you can't unsee it..
At least here everything looks crisp, but still missing the line in the zipper and the line between snoopy's feet would bother me.
Although, that newer one actually has better defined stars than mine lol.
This is mine from December 2023:
Looking at a bunch currently for sale there's actually a lot more variation, missing stars, partially missing 5 second markers, additional lines, missing lines.
This one has no star beneath snoopy and part of the second hashes is missing on some of them. The good ones do all look pretty much the same but there's a lot of variation in the bad ones.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126940625837
Definitely not trying to throw any shade.
I gather that bsowers has been blessed with a longer life than I have so far. My eyes' time is coming, I'm sure....
| Die Type | Estimated Prints on Silver Plate |
|---|---|
| Soft Steel Die | ~500–1,000 prints |
| Hardened Steel Die | ~5,000–10,000 prints |
| Tungsten Carbide Die | Up to 50,000+ prints (rare, expensive) |
Actually I had lasik 10 years ago and it made me farsighted. My arms aren't long enough. But why is everyone complaining about this first world "problem"? Wear it and enjoy it, or move it on if it bugs you that much.
These are rough estimates. For example, in coin minting or medal production, hardened steel dies used on silver blanks often yield 5,000 to 10,000 strikes before needing refurbishment or replacement.
Dave G said:I just happened to be skimming through Randy Wiley's 1986 article on Die Varieties of Liberty Seated Half Dollars (in America's Silver Coinage - from the Coinage of the Americas Conference of the ANS), in which he estimated that average expected die life was 155,000 half dollars. He went on to say that dies for larger coins had a shorter life and that during the Liberty Seated era, the die life for quarter dollar dies was about double that for the half dollar and the die life for dimes was four times as great.
Unsurprisingly, the AI estimate is incorrect
