I am a huge fan of the step dial and would like to know more about it. Does anyone know why it was used and then not?
Robert-Jan Broer stated that it was limited to references 145.022-69 and 145.022-71. Anything you can add would be great.

Do you have images you'd like to share?

TIA,
MjB

 

The printed logo stepped dial was limited to the 145.022-69 and 145.022-71. But dials had been stepped since the early 1960s, with the applied metal logo.

 

Mid 1960's 105.012

 

A step..

 

That dial and that leather are a great combination. Even the bezel has joined in. Beautiful!

 

Interesting that the step got more and more pronounced (2915, 2998 very mild step- 105.003 more pronounced and finally with the twisted lug models it had the most obvious step).

 

Last step was -72 and arguably early -74

 

2998- quite obvious step

 

Mind you, this is a guess, but I always assumed the change had to do with production cost. I can imagine Omega trying to cut costs on popular models when the quartz crisis hit.