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WillBryce
·In 1958, when I was 21, I went to Germany for 3 months on a student exchange and bought an Omega watch for as much as I could afford. It has served me well and I would like to get a rough idea of its value.
Apart from ‘OMEGA’ and ‘SWISS MADE’ on the dial, it has no other external markings. It has a gloss black dial, a 36D stainless steel case (the lugs are not gold) and a winder marked with ‘Ω’. The hands and hour indices are gold/gilt and have luminous inserts (albeit not luminous now). It came originally with a black leather strap. After much searching on the internet, I have not been able to find anything quite like it.
Having removed the screwed backplate, I found it to be marked with ’17 jewels’, the calibre ‘Ω 283’ and the model number ‘2640-7SC’ and serial number ‘13622520’.
From the OTTUHR website, it seems have been made in 1952 (a long time before my purchase) and is unusual in that it has no Arabic numerals, a black face and the minute markings are at the end of the faceted dagger indices and not at the rim of the dial. For almost 70 years I have thought that its elegant simplicity was a typical Omega design without realising the enormously wide range of design options that were available.
Apart from ‘OMEGA’ and ‘SWISS MADE’ on the dial, it has no other external markings. It has a gloss black dial, a 36D stainless steel case (the lugs are not gold) and a winder marked with ‘Ω’. The hands and hour indices are gold/gilt and have luminous inserts (albeit not luminous now). It came originally with a black leather strap. After much searching on the internet, I have not been able to find anything quite like it.
Having removed the screwed backplate, I found it to be marked with ’17 jewels’, the calibre ‘Ω 283’ and the model number ‘2640-7SC’ and serial number ‘13622520’.
From the OTTUHR website, it seems have been made in 1952 (a long time before my purchase) and is unusual in that it has no Arabic numerals, a black face and the minute markings are at the end of the faceted dagger indices and not at the rim of the dial. For almost 70 years I have thought that its elegant simplicity was a typical Omega design without realising the enormously wide range of design options that were available.
