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Pianist
·I had this one but I didn't keep it
The Flightmaster thread
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JACK G
·Omega Switzerland (Bienne) are often maligned on this forum but occasionally they pull the rabbit out of the hat....................
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Cortezthekiller
·Killer mesh. I may have to swap out my 1159
What did you do with the old dial?
What did you do with the old dial?
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JACK G
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A few years back I had a thing about Flightmasters and ended up with two - the other was the yellow hand version - pic below.
As much as I loved the watches the Flightmasters they never really sat right on my small wrist. I passed the old dial and all replaced parts onto the new owner when sold.
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jds1017
·Wow! I'm surprised you found my pictures from way way back. Yes, that one had a relatively early serial
Let us get into the small minute differences significant to building hype... 😉
Let us talk chrono pushers. From what I have seen there are three types - the all yellow, the all red and the red and yellow:
Mine - all yellow.
All red - pic stolen from net (jds1017 photobucket).
The red and yellow - also stolen (chrono shop net).
The versions with one colour seem to correspond with the watch being of the earliest execution - with dials without dots at 12. Low serials - mine starting with 2913. One can imagine that Omega later decided on having one version of the pushers - fitting both colour chrono hands, thus started with the two colour pushers.
I have also found information, on a German site, that the service pushers of the two colour version has a larger indention than the originally fitted. Can anyone verify this?
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timeismoney
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Great thread! @styggpyggeno1 So many awesome flightmasters, I love them. Here are my twins, same but so different!
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tyrantlizardrex
·Bank transfer made...
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wayneG
·Mine is in for service; seeing this thread is making me even more anxious to get it back!!
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speedy4ever
·Hi there,
Scoop: There will probably be a Flightmaster Only book (of course smaller than MWO)
Scoop: There will probably be a Flightmaster Only book (of course smaller than MWO)
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wayneG
·Hi there,
Scoop: There will probably be a Flightmaster Only book (of course smaller than MWO)
I hope so. By the way, if this is Greg, lmk if you received my email the other day regarding MWO? (Wayne)
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styggpyggeno1
·Hi there,
Scoop: There will probably be a Flightmaster Only book (of course smaller than MWO)
Yes!!! I can add some weeks to my "stay drunk as retired"- planning.
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Delbok
·Mine says hi before getting original hands and pushers!
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Fordex
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zimmerit5
·A tropical looking flightmaster on a bundstrap
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donkii
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pascs
·My 145.036 yesterday.............I bought it some time back and had not really used it as the main spring was slipping after only about 15 winds. So finally picked up the courage to investigate.
The offending main spring - first time I've seen a spring break like that, not sure if its common or not.
New spring installed...
And movement back together after a slight clean and oiled all the jewels
Today will be refitting the dial and hands and hopefully back into the case 😀
The offending main spring - first time I've seen a spring break like that, not sure if its common or not.
New spring installed...
And movement back together after a slight clean and oiled all the jewels
Today will be refitting the dial and hands and hopefully back into the case 😀
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Archer
··Omega Qualified Watchmaker"Slight clean"? Anyway, yes the break in the mainspring there is common. It's usually at either end, so there at the barrel arbor or out at the tang end.
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Steve1haggart
·I don't want to put the dampener on this thread there lovely/ stunning watchs , but for me these flightmasters just don't do it for me ....am I missing something here ???? Should I be purchasing one as an investment for later on in life ?
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pascs
·"Slight clean"? Anyway, yes the break in the mainspring there is common. It's usually at either end, so there at the barrel arbor or out at the tang end.
I've only seen breaks at the other end so wasnt sure if its normal to break at the arbor end.
I dont have a cleaning machine so I'm a bit limited to what cleaning I can do unfortunately, its on my list of things to buy but I'm quite far outside my comfort zone with a movement like this 😁
Anyway its back together ........
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styggpyggeno1
·I don't want to put the dampener on this thread there lovely/ stunning watchs , but for me these flightmasters just don't do it for me ....am I missing something here ???? Should I be purchasing one as an investment for later on in life ?
If watches are a hobby - a investment purchase without liking it is not something I would do. If liking it investment potential is of low importance.
If watches are your work - potential or believed potential is everything.
