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UPDATE OF: 7$ 2914-2 Flightmaster bought at fleamarket
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APAH
·I wanted to do a quick update to you guys about the watch I bought in October.
I had it serviced by a very experienced watchmaker who also changed the lume in the watch hands, now it looks a lot better, I will post some photos of that as well.
I filed for an extract of the archives at OMEGA but unfortunately my order was canceled as they the didn't find anything on the information I gave them. I tried to ask them if they would give me the bit of information that they could find, but they refused that as well..
I have been talking to several watch connoisseur's and we cannot find out whether this is a railmaster which has been switched to a flightmaster dial or whether it may be a prototype that OMEGA made, with the intention of producing a flightmaster watch for the public, as the weird thing is that it does not have any engraving on the back, besides from the seahorse.
Anyway I am now stuck in this case, and I am thinking about just leaving it here.
But before I left it I wanted to kindly ask all of the connoisseur's in here what their opinion in this case would be? If you have an idea, please feel free to share it.
Kind regards
I had it serviced by a very experienced watchmaker who also changed the lume in the watch hands, now it looks a lot better, I will post some photos of that as well.
I filed for an extract of the archives at OMEGA but unfortunately my order was canceled as they the didn't find anything on the information I gave them. I tried to ask them if they would give me the bit of information that they could find, but they refused that as well..
I have been talking to several watch connoisseur's and we cannot find out whether this is a railmaster which has been switched to a flightmaster dial or whether it may be a prototype that OMEGA made, with the intention of producing a flightmaster watch for the public, as the weird thing is that it does not have any engraving on the back, besides from the seahorse.
Anyway I am now stuck in this case, and I am thinking about just leaving it here.
But before I left it I wanted to kindly ask all of the connoisseur's in here what their opinion in this case would be? If you have an idea, please feel free to share it.
Kind regards
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wwhntr
·Very nice update! Watchmaker did a decent job changing lume in hands, even same texture!
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·@tdn-dk recently showed me this thread, https://forums.watchuseek.com/f20/v...MXZOS4K4I-3iR-wLepI7t41GkP5S_Pn5MNc3hICSWRUKw
and that is why we might think that is a railmaster with a flight master dial, as my watch also has been found in Denmark.
It is definitely an old dial, as @tdn-dk put my watch on his geiger counter to investigate if it was a radium dial. The counter went nuts! see for your self!
and that is why we might think that is a railmaster with a flight master dial, as my watch also has been found in Denmark.
It is definitely an old dial, as @tdn-dk put my watch on his geiger counter to investigate if it was a radium dial. The counter went nuts! see for your self!
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Cuttysark
·Very nice job!
I would search a silver ring for the dial. I don’t like the black one (is not the original).
I would search a silver ring for the dial. I don’t like the black one (is not the original).
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APAH
·Very nice job!
I would search a silver ring for the dial. I don’t like the black one (is not the original).
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redpcar
·Can you not put the original back? Is it in bad shape?
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Ness
·I am still curious to know in which city was the flea market! 👎
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redpcar
·He should. The large inner ring is the character of the watch.
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Wing Zero
·The hands look much better!! Nice choice in strap as well. Congratulations again
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This is not part of an Omega Logo. And you do not have a Prototype. i had 3 flightmasters over the last 30 years. all came back with excerpts from the factory. looks like your movement does not belong to this watch. reason? in the 1980`s many spareparts were sold in peru from the guys, who serviced them for the FAP. empty cases, spare (and not Flightmaster engraved) backs . dials. hands . so, that movement is easy to find and off you go, another Flightmaster is born. like the IWC MK 11 watch and spare parts government auctions in the UK. many MK 11 watches were "born" then. and because they had more parts watches than dials, an UK dealer had dials printed with a weird logo and a few in white. and then came the dealers "Legends" from the extremly rare white dial MK 11 for the Royal Navy.....google it and then you have one story from the strange world of government issued military watches and what happened after decommission and government auction sales. you have a nice put together. wear it for what it is and be happy. no mystery here. kind regards. achim
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·This is not part of an Omega Logo. And you do not have a Prototype. i had 3 flightmasters over the last 30 years. all came back with excerpts from the factory. looks like your movement does not belong to this watch. reason? in the 1980`s many spareparts were sold in peru from the guys, who serviced them for the FAP. empty cases, spare (and not Flightmaster engraved) backs . dials. hands . so, that movement is easy to find and off you go, another Flightmaster is born. like the IWC MK 11 watch and spare parts government auctions in the UK. many MK 11 watches were "born" then. and because they had more parts watches than dials, an UK dealer had dials printed with a weird logo and a few in white. and then came the dealers "Legends" from the extremly rare white dial MK 11 for the Royal Navy.....google it and then you have one story from the strange world of government issued military watches and what happened after decommission and government auction sales. you have a nice put together. wear it for what it is and be happy. no mystery here. kind regards. achim
The reason why I thought it was an omega logo, is that it can be seen more clearly on this watch, which has nearly the same story as mine. https://forums.watchuseek.com/f20/v...MXZOS4K4I-3iR-wLepI7t41GkP5S_Pn5MNc3hICSWRUKw
Anyway thanks a lot, I will defiantly look into the story about mk11's!! Kind regards, Anders
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ConElPueblo
·This is not part of an Omega Logo. And you do not have a Prototype. i had 3 flightmasters over the last 30 years. all came back with excerpts from the factory. looks like your movement does not belong to this watch. reason? in the 1980`s many spareparts were sold in peru from the guys, who serviced them for the FAP. empty cases, spare (and not Flightmaster engraved) backs . dials. hands . so, that movement is easy to find and off you go, another Flightmaster is born. like the IWC MK 11 watch and spare parts government auctions in the UK. many MK 11 watches were "born" then. and because they had more parts watches than dials, an UK dealer had dials printed with a weird logo and a few in white. and then came the dealers "Legends" from the extremly rare white dial MK 11 for the Royal Navy.....google it and then you have one story from the strange world of government issued military watches and what happened after decommission and government auction sales. you have a nice put together. wear it for what it is and be happy. no mystery here. kind regards. achim
But @APAH, did you get a refund from Omega when they couldn't find any information about the serial? If so, they don't have any archive entry about this movement. If they kept the money there is a discrepancy.
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·But @APAH, did you get a refund from Omega when they couldn't find any information about the serial? If so, they don't have any archive entry about this movement. If they kept the money there is a discrepancy.
Omega Policy has changed. No refunds. Work is the same...... kind regards. Achim
