This 2852 is a redial right?

Davidt

I’m (finally!) getting into early Constellations. They’ve never sung to me and all of a sudden it’s hits me like a sledgehammer and now I’m all on looking for a 2852 in steel.

Anyway, I came across this one this evening on eBay. At first glance the font looks fairly good. However on closer inspection the crosshair is slightly too thick, the minute marks don’t quite align with the hour markers and crucially the entire minute track isn’t completely centered with the hour markers (ie there’s a larger gap between the hour markers and the minute track on the 3 o’clock side than on the 9 o’clock side).

So this is a redial, right?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23479380...aMjpz0rSAy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Dr No

Yes.

inchpincher

The other reason I don’t think this is a redial is the three zoomed in pictures in the first post are all the same photo, just magnified. Which greatly increases the likelihood it’s parallax error.

Looking at other pictures in the auction the misalignment is far less pronounced, below.

Case is a bit soft but I think it’s worth £1k if the movement is kosher.

Sharp

No.

Dr No

I feel it's more likely than not that some of the printed markers are too far offset for this dial to have passed quality control. (Notice the shift towards 10 and 11 with corresponding shifts away from 4 and 5.) Ditto for the 6 o'clock marker covering 'Swiss Made'.

It might be a service dial or a production dial that didn't pass muster that escaped the dial maker's control. Or even an original dial that shouldn't have escaped Omega's qc but did. Not every Ford is a lemon, but there are Ford lemons.

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