Whilst on the hunt for a nice gents C Case for me, I started looking at the ladies version, and noticed (as Kaplan stated) that most are in rough condition. I took a punt on one for my girlfriend, and was pleasantly surprised when it turned up, considering the price I paid! Unpolished, great dial, original hands and crystal. It just needs a service and the bracelet repairing. Booked into Simon Freese for both.

Still looking for one for me!

 

Wow, that's beautiful - I was almost going to buy one today too - same model - dirty - no bracelet and it sold for $200+ - I decided to buy one in good condition with the original bracelet like you did - yours is really in incredible condition

 

It was a bargain too! 1/3rd of the price of the overpolished rubbish that I had seen. There aren’t many out there to choose from...

 

Here's a question for the experts, since I haven't been able to find anything definitive on the interwebs. The bezel on this model has a different fluting pattern (more like a Rolex) than the more usual coin-edge pattern of the white gold bezel versions. I've seen a few around, but they do seem much less common. Does anyone know which particular models had these? And are they also white gold?

 

I prefer the white gold bezel you mentioned. I wish the bezel on mine was wider TBH.

 

Adding a small bit of information to our codex, it turns out earlier solid gold Omega's had 750K dials too even though it doesn't say OM on the dial - and the dial is 3.5 grams

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Got my “bad” watch back recently, after almost 1 year of service. It was in a real bad shape when I bought it. In summary the watchmaker did a great job, but unfortunately polished a bit too much in my opinion. Now it’s keeping time -2/per day which is quite accurate, I think.

It’s a ref. 166.0248 from the late 70s made for the communist leader of North Korea Kim-Il Sung as a present for head of diplomatic delegations or other diplomats. Unlike other “leader” watches these are quite rare, I somewhere on a Korean page read around 70 of this ref. were made in steel and 30 in gold.
2015 there has been another one sold with the same ref. and produced in the same batch (day) like mine. It also was 60 “numbers” away from my movement serial.
I just like the watch because it’s quiet rare, which makes it collectible in my opinion and I don’t interest much about the rest.

Interesting are the end links 736 which I never saw on a different ref.

When I received my first extract for this watch, it stated Korea as country of delivery, after I raised some questions I received a second one stating “North Korea”.

An other watchmaker told me one could clean the dial easily, I am not so sure, as I am aware of the fact that dials are a sensitive terrain.
The dial is silvered, what do you guys say?

 

Cue laughter now... this was a total punt (too much time at home thanks to ) but I figured at us$350 the downside was low. It's from a Japanese eBay seller, being shipped now, but I thought I'd share the story early. I'll post when it arrives, but who reckons I've made a horrible mistake? (Kaplan, help me out, I know you have one of these).

 

Hi,

It's a nice looking watch, I actually don't have one of those, I have the 19mm white version, yours should be 20mm, and the dial is grey, as far as I now, it uses the same case and bracelet with the Electrogolf I shared earlier (2045 with 741 endlinks, JDM bracelet)

If it's working, the price is good, 300Hz auction for ~$250 at their absolute lowest and it's a gamble, they fail like 50% of the time - so $350 for a working watch is a good deal - the condition is awesome, hard to find good ones like that, I've seen 4-5 of them come and go

For some reason this variation doesn't say "SWISS MADE" - maybe the case/dial etc. isn't Swiss, but the movements are all the same

Since you bought from eBay, the seller is more exposed, if it doesn't work, you can get your money back easily, he gets less than $280 net. - you get your protections, so all in all, good deal

 

My biggest Constellation find

Someone used a Speedmaster as spare parts for a Constellation

 

This popped up on my Reddit feed today -- only the one pic, 18kt gold (consistent with the fine fluting of the bezel) and one of the rare fumé dials. Needless to say I called dibs...

 

Looks gorgeous! BUT wait for the experts'... expertise!

 

Wow, a great looking watch, what an oddity - the greenish lume pips look very familiar, I thought it was a bad re-lume on mine, but maybe it's original - or maybe these 2 watches had the same owner - mine is from Europe - @MtV bought it for me


(At this hour my iPhone potato photos can't capture much)

@Boojumhunter I wanted to ask you about your brown fume dialed gold watch, is there a story for that watch, who did it belong to, how did you buy it? Most importantly I guess, where did it originate from? It's such a unique watch

 

Pretty sure it's legit; identical dial to my pair, right down to the "spidering" that seems to be common to these. That's why I posted it here rather than the "hinky redials to laugh at" thread!

 

@kaplan, I got my watch as a lucky find through Chrono24 last year; no idea about the provenance. My wife has nicknamed it "The Eye of Sauron", the palantir of Orthanc from the Lord of the Rings movies:

 

I like the date model, but not the large day-date window. The case design has a taste of the seventies, and I think that hurts it compared to the Omegas from the 50s and 60s. At least that is my problem with it. But maybe it is time for me to give them a second look.

 

Upped my crystal polishing game a bit, this is(was) my donor watch

Played to my strengths, sanding by hand and polishing with Menzerna 3800 later on after 7000 grit - Poliwatch never did anything for me but this product really works, if it stands the test of time too going to polish all the watches in my collection with scratched crystals

 

Hi Kaplan

As a little hint for polish on crystals I use this:
https://www.amazon.de/Rotweiss-Acry...eywords=rotweiss+plexi&qid=1635333972&sr=8-11
and
https://www.amazon.de/Rotweiss-8250...keywords=rotweiss+plexi&qid=1635333972&sr=8-7

Polish in no time and crystals are like new even under magnifier no sign of scratches to see and no need to tape anything.