I can't help with the pictures I'm afraid. I went earlier in the year to the museum and was expressly asked not to upload any pictures to the forums.
So, for all you fans it's another great reason to make the pilgrimage to the museum - it's a fantastic place staffed with absolute enthusiasts.
Don't suppose anyone has a picture of the pre production?
Good spot - the unique prototype in the Omega museum has the identical broader red squares to the pattern that went into production and now on your wrist.
So it was a deliberate feature - or at least no one was forced to change it before it went into production. You have good eyesight!
But either way the numbers were stopped at whatever number of dials were manufactured and there are some interesting anecdotes in the thread about that. Somewhere in the bowels of Omega there are a box of Tintin case backs
Dials still available from Omega. Don't know about the casebacks, but my guess would be that they are as well 👍 well, just FYI 😎
Yes, please do. Will have a look at it and maybe make a comment or two 😉
Unfortunately, despite being recent, none of them was full set. I can't believe it, especially for the Tintin that is like one year old!!!!
For the Japan racing moonwatches, I find very few here in Japan from time to time, but none has papers. Judging by the S/N, they are all are original, and japanese people are not usually trying to trick, but I guess people don't care and loose the papers and box... 🙁 Most are not collectors obviously.
Does anyone know how the red and white is applied to the dial?
Well, I guess as this watch is somewhat a failure from Omega's side (a win to some collectors of course 🙄) they did not want to use more time correcting minor details such as this.
To me it seems that it is a fault in the production. The layers of paint have not been put on there with enough care (or unwillingness to look into details 🤦)
In this photo you can see that the white paint has rounded edges.
- I think maybe the red paint was applied first.
- Then it has dried and then the white paint was added (maybe) explaining the round corners of the white checks.
- At last the black indices on top
To explain why the white paint has not come together, maybe the manufactures did not add enough white paint.
If someone at the factory had noticed, they might have changed the amount of white color?! Or did they just not have the time or finesse 😟
Just my theory 🍿
