Thoughts/concerns on this 1944-45 30T2 SC?

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Sorry to contradict - all the hands are legit!

There is a small series of references/dials with this particular "inverse" hands design with the short second hand and the long minute hand.
I have a watch with a very similar dial/hands combo in my collection.

That is a lovely watch! What is the case reference (if you don't mind)?
 
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That is a lovely watch! What is the case reference (if you don't mind)?
These early watches don´t have ref.## in the case back, just a case serial#.
As I did not order an extract from the Omega archive I do not know the reference# but as far as I recall it is a bit larger than your watch (I have it in the bank deposite box, so I can not give you the diameter).
 
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So the every new poster asking for advice is guilty in questions with selling motives and have to be meet with a hostile attitude, until they have proven the opposite or have gone again?
I am used to the attitude in the U.S.A....innocent until proven guilty. If someone repeatedly seems to be "driving by" or acting as an implied or real shill, that's one thing...but many of us truly have to start somewhere.
 
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Looks like the same case with a non central second caliber (here in a 1948 catalog) :
 
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I regret clicking on this thread and the undertone suggests that I continue to stay with modern watches. Enjoy your Sunday ladies and gents.
 
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Sorry to contradict - all the hands are legit!

There is a small series of references/dials with this particular "inverse" hands design with the short second hand and the long minute hand.
I have a watch with a very similar dial/hands combo in my collection.

Interesting, I have this cal 28SC, ref 2416 from around 1947, with the same kind of dial but a longer (blued) second hand. I was convinced that it is full original, but maybe the second hand was changed?
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Sorry to contradict - all the hands are legit!

There is a small series of references/dials with this particular "inverse" hands design with the short second hand and the long minute hand.
I have a watch with a very similar dial/hands combo in my collection.


Hi mac_omega

I think in your example all hands are legit. I own an almost identical example. But I think that in the OP's picture the second hand should end exactly at the minute/second indices which isn't the case. I guess the second hand is slightly too long which is why I think that the second hand is a replacement. The minute and hour hands seem to be ok.

Best,
Stephan
 
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I showed mine to a watchmaker at Omega HQ in Bienne and he told me that the long minute hand is fine and original as there are "two levels of indices". He told me that all hands are original.
The inner circle is for the second hand only. So the second hand is supposed to stop right there.
The watchmaker even showed my watch to his supervisor to make sure he has the same point of view (which he had).

Hope that helps
Best,
Stephan
 
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Interesting, I have this cal 28SC, ref 2416 from around 1947, with the same kind of dial but a longer (blued) second hand. I was convinced that it is full original, but maybe the second hand was changed?
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Here is mine : 30 T2 SC with long second hand.
 
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These early watches don´t have ref.## in the case back, just a case serial#.
As I did not order an extract from the Omega archive I do not know the reference# but as far as I recall it is a bit larger than your watch (I have it in the bank deposite box, so I can not give you the diameter).

The seller sent me a better pic of the case back and it has the reference 2220/2 but no serial.
 
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Thanks to all of you for your responses. I'm thrilled to have this beauty in the collection:
 
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Nice watch. Here's another example where the blued seconds hand is shorter than the minute hand:

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