A dirty watch needing service doesn't really scare me but a watch with mixed parts and too much prep for sale scares me a ton. lol
I don't need a flightmaster so I will probably pass unless the price is too good to be true. What price could you not pass up? $1400?

 

@GTAKnights a close look at the subdials shows there might be some kind of schmutz - which could extend across the dial.

If it is what I think it is, the photographs dont show it well but if you wore the watch in sunlight, you would definitely see it. This would drive me absolutely crazy.

Also the tritium aged to a lime green instead of custard yellow, which happened with many Omegas of the period. This is a matter of personal preference, but I dont like green lume.

That plus the excellent observations from @tyrantlizardrex - I think you could find better examples.

 

Thank you for the photo. A hero.

 

Here is mine with the NOS Corfam leather strap

 

From 1976

 

What the heck, I'm doing the ironing and need to keep track of time!

 

Question to the Omega Flightmaster fans --> identify the wristwatch in this 1982 NASA photo
Could astronaut Richard "Dick" Covey, meanwhile a veteran of 4 space shuttle flights, be wearing an Omega Flightmaster in this photograph ?
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No. I've handled this watch. It is a Seiko 6139 Chronograph.

 

Here with the famous Seiko Astronaut.

 

Probably the last Omega Flightmaster in space was worn by Franco Malerba, first Italian to travel to space on STS-46 space shuttle Atlantis in August 1992

 

Maybe

 

Finally got my flightmaster extract Shows my watch produced in October 1969, delivered to Australia, confirming one of the first 1000 flightmasters watches made (based on serial# 291309xx). Unfortunately pushers are service, so now all I have to do is find a set of single color ones, that should be easy

 

I was perusing through eBay and I came across this flightmaster for sale listed as a 145.036. I have a question, but first pictures and information:





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If you do not want to click the link here is the quick skinny. It is listed as a 145.036, it has a 911 movement with steel brake, serial is edited out, by my inspection non-polished case, original pushers and crowns, original bracelet, and looks to have original hands.

My question for the experts here is, has anyone here seen this dial before? It is without dots at 12, 3-6-9 without dots, and it sure does look to be an albino dial. Only mention of albino dials in the "B" style is without dots at 12 BUT with dots at 3-6-9. With the rest of the watch looking the way it does, I am hard pressed to think the dots at 3-6-9 came off on there own leaving no signs of them being there in the first place.

What do you think?

PS: I am not looking to buy it, I am looking for an answer or better yet a discussion .

 

Baby Flightmaster allowed?

 

Never looked at my flightmaster that way before. Saw the dots on mine. Even the specimen two posts above your dont have dots. Maybe this is not an issue.

 

^ upon further looking, seems the specimen above has dots. I can see the ones at 6 and 9.

 

I’m not considering it an issue. I’m trying to see if anyone has seen one before. I cannot find another example and it is not listed in “flightmaster only”. It is more a research question to those who have been in the hobby much longer than myself.

The watch two posts before mine is a different reference and that dial is known.

 

I would say the dial has been re-lumed and possibly cleaned/treated. The dial lume color and condition are very different to the hands. I don't know of any .036 watches that do not have the dots at the 12 marker. I also think it's aggressively priced.

 

Most I have seen, the lume on 145.036's over time tend to not match. Condition difference also tends to be different as well in original untouched examples. Why? I am not sure. I would love an explanation, if there is one, that someone knows.

Even if your comments are true for the watch, it still does not help answer the question of where did the dial come from? I underlined and bolded your statement that I 100% agree with and is what caught my eye in the first place that caused me to research and came up with nothing so I posted here ha ha. That is really what I am hoping to get some ideas about.

Price is not an issue I have with it as I am not looking to purchase it.

Thank you for responding though!