Thoughts on this vintage Omega dial?

Wanted to get your thoughts on this watch. The dial seems off somehow but case and movement seems legit?

You don't say!

Incredibly poor redial.

To just provide a bit of information as to four things that are specifically wrong with the dial:
First, an immediate giveaway is the fact that the applied hour indices do not line up with the minute indices (which can be seen particularly egregiously at 8 and 10 o'clock)
Second, the minute markers are too close to the centre of the dial, which is also clear from how their relation to the hour markers
Third, the word 'SWISS' is incorrectly being covered by the 6 o'clock marker
Fourth, the 'Chronometre ....' font is incorrect and misplaced


I do agree with @Davidt, though, that the movement itself looks genuine

Thanks all for the responses. I’m interested in it due to it being a jumbo. Would it be possible to get a different dial for this?

That could be an expensive (and time-consuming) endeavour; it might be better to just find a different watch.

Note also that the 2640 is only 36mm, so it's not particularly 'jumbo' for a 'jumbo'.

The dial forensics above are complete, so just the buyer's arithmetic, since you're weighing a purchase:


A redial doesn't take a percentage off a vintage Omega - it changes what the watch is. To collectors, this is no longer a 2640 with a flaw; it's a parts watch wearing a costume: genuine case, genuine movement, dial worth nothing. So the only price that makes sense is parts price - roughly what the movement, case, and crown would bring separately, which on a 2640 is a small fraction of a clean example. If the seller's asking anywhere near "honest vintage Omega" money, walk.


And the replacement-dial plan compounds the problem rather than fixing it: you'd pay real money and wait possibly years for a correct dial (as said above), and at the end hold a watch that's still not original - just better disguised - with more cash in it than a genuinely original example would have cost you today. The math never closes.


If you love the jumbo idea, put the same total toward an untouched-dial example and never think about it again. Worn and original beats pretty and painted, every time and at every price.