Would love to hear some informed commentary on this one:
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Dunno why but that dial looks familiar to me
Missing movement shot, inner caseback...seems like a bold ask.

 

Watch has been listed several times on ebay with the same asking without resulting in a sale. It is a very uncommon case ref. 2077 (screwback case - all the other case references for the 33.3 were snapback) with the complicated tele-tachy dial. About the only thing that would make the watch more desirable is if the dial patina was less. Price is not totally unreasonable - the 2077s with original dials go anywhere from $5-10k (simple dials with watch listed on ebay) to over $50k (complicated black dials listed sold at christies):

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/...-unusual-stainless-steel-4982969-details.aspx

As I said, the asking price is not wholly unreasonable - would want to see a movement shot but not concerned about the inner caseback since the outer caseback pretty much tells me what I need to know (inner caseback will only say acier staybrite as the case serial is stamped in the outer caseback and shielded from view in the seller's pics).

 

Excellent, thanks.

Would explain the familiarity of the dial.

 

This is a grail for me and hope to own a 2077 with this sort of dial someday. I've neglected the 33.3 in my vintage omega collection and am hoping 2013 is the year to fix that. It's a pretty uncommon movement - only 14,000 movements were produced over almost 20 years (and who knows how many still remain today?) - so nice 33.3 chronographs typically get sold at Christies.

 

Meanwhile I have to content myself with two chronographs (among the very, very few non-omega watches that I own) that have pretty much the same movement but branded tissot and lemania respectively. The tissot is in a gold plated case and the lemania is in a steel case.

 

Erich,
I would agree the asking price is too steep for me as well but disagree about the dial observations - don't think this dial was cleaned. Have seen a few of these patinated, complicated dials where those words tachymetre and telemetre are "highlighted" in that way
Mike

 

But here's the thing - what kind of patek would you get at $20k? A nice time only vintage gold model? I think this is a much more interesting buy and would probably an even better investment.

 

Completely agree. Every time I come to the brink of a Patek or vintage Rolex purchase, I think what else I could get for that money, and I walk away...I won't say without a second thought, but I've yet to have one enter the top 10 of my regret list.

 

Different strokes - what makes this hobby nice. Don't like the patek nautilus and even if you did, you could always buy it if you had the money any day of the week including sunday! You probably get to buy a watch like that omega once or twice a year!

 

...and with the Nautilus, it wouldn't be long before you saw your watch on another person's wrist. An Omega 33.3...that might take a while.

 

And one more thing - the vintage watch enthusiasts who have been at this hobby for at least a few years will agree with me that the hunt and the eventual find is almost as satisfying as the watch itself. I'm sure we all have tales to tell about some of these pieces - in fact sometimes I want to keep the watch not because it is very valuable but because the story associated with its find is priceless.

 

Interesting observation. Seller says bought in Austria. But in 1945, I'd say anything was possible!
I have this one, actually from Portugal