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·Today I saved a gold Omega from being melted for scrap gold. It is the heaviest gold Omega I ever had, 67 grams without the strap. I had a phone conversation about the watch and googled it, I immediately told myself, I will not spend a dime on that one.
But today I had it in my hands, and it did something to my weak sick soul. And I bought it, silencing my brain for a couple of minutes. I guess some of you know what I mean.
Actually, I quite like it. There is a sense of great quality mixed with a touch 70´s funkiness. Quite unusual. I tried to resist because I am not interested in electronic watches and I try to avoid gold watches with gold dials except Centenary’s. But here I am trying to scatter my mixed feelings.
I have been reading everything about it for the past two hours and I think it is not a common watch, I mean the 18k version, the gold steel version is everywhere on the net.
I read a nice thread here on OF from @Tom Dick where he shows an English Catalogue with a retail price of £674 in 1974.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/omega-9ct-gold-constellation-chronometer-f300-transformation.25498/
I think that’s about it, oh yeah I paid a little more than the gold value.
Have a safe WE on OF. Don’t go to your watchmaker, you never know.
But today I had it in my hands, and it did something to my weak sick soul. And I bought it, silencing my brain for a couple of minutes. I guess some of you know what I mean.
Actually, I quite like it. There is a sense of great quality mixed with a touch 70´s funkiness. Quite unusual. I tried to resist because I am not interested in electronic watches and I try to avoid gold watches with gold dials except Centenary’s. But here I am trying to scatter my mixed feelings.
I have been reading everything about it for the past two hours and I think it is not a common watch, I mean the 18k version, the gold steel version is everywhere on the net.
I read a nice thread here on OF from @Tom Dick where he shows an English Catalogue with a retail price of £674 in 1974.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/omega-9ct-gold-constellation-chronometer-f300-transformation.25498/
I think that’s about it, oh yeah I paid a little more than the gold value.
Have a safe WE on OF. Don’t go to your watchmaker, you never know.
