Trying to find original dial for my gramps' 50s 2603-2

Hey folks. Long story short, found this watch in my grandma's home, probably sitting in a drawer for 40+ years going back and forth, and getting damaged a lot in that timeframe. I've opened the caseback, and it's model number is 2603-2 but searching for it brings up a lot of different dialed watches from same body.

I've had it serviced at a local family shop, who has told me I should consider a dial repainting and should find a dealer with more equipment to service it properly and replace the missing parts. From what they've told me, it has two "screws" missing but watch can work fine without them. I've had them install a new crystal and new hands that matched the original damaged one. It's still on lol.

So, three questions.
1. What is the exact name-model nr I should be searching for to find EXACTLY what it looked like 70 years ago?
2. I've found someone who does specifically Omega dial restorations and is pretty good at them. Should I do a dial restoration? Should I try finding new-old-stock original dials and purchase one? I need my first question answered for this though. I've searched for 2603-2 NOS dials and a lot of different ones come up. Reason I'm exactly asking though is I'm just not sure about it. It has godawful visibility in daylight, numbers are hard to read under sunlight. But I love the whole history aspect of it, it somehow looks badass lol. It also has name of gramps etched on the back.
3. Crown. It weirdly has no Omega logo on the crown, I'm guessing it has been replaced before? Where can I look for an original crown to replace it? Or is it original? Not sure.

Here are the pictures from when I first found it;



And here are two current photos

Pretty watch. Reminds me of the re-issue of the 1948, but nicer.

The lack of closure on the bottom of the one in the 12?
Or, possibly, the Omega logo?

For me the biggest giveaway is the hour markers, part of 7 is even inside the seconds sub dial!

the watch can be really nice if you find a good place which is capable og repainting it

Thank you for the reply! It looks like the link you've posted has the 2603-12 model while the one I have is 2603-2. I'm not even sure what the difference is, can we say for sure that is what the dial is supposed to look like? For example in my dial, the numbers are pretty much sitting atop the sides while the one you posted has them placed closer to the center. Like I'm not sure what the place I'll contact will use as a reference to repaint the dial so that's why I went out looking for it myself.

Also that watch is indeed gorgeous. If the end result would be anywhere close to that, I'd go with repainting without a second thought. I'm just not sure what it'll look like. Can I share instagram links here? The place I've found for the redial has an instagram page that he posts occasionally to, could you check some of them out and see if he's worth my time?

Ooh, that's a shame then. I guess we'll have to take some creative liberty on the process. The one you've posted could be a great starting point.


Of course. Here are few I've downloaded from his instagram. His handle is saatkadrantamiri on IG. Since I don't really have an eye for it, I'd really appreciate a second opinion on these. If they're not that good, I'll try reaching out to other places as well but since he is local, his work will most likely be a little bit easy on my wallet as well heh.

I would just have the dial refinished. Going to be easier than trying to find a large dial that will fit the case. There are a number of large dial, but shape is based off the case design and what works for one case may not work in another case.

You could be just throwing money away buying dial after dial trying to find one.

Seamaster date has a nice color. No radial sunburst pattern. Black Arabic numbers

Two missing screws are case screws. They hold the movement tight in the case, but bezel will also do that. One screw has broken off in the hole, so that will have to be removed

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