Paperwork is for movement 12360224



Movement serial number is:



Pretty amazing that they were able to find the COSC certificate for the watch one serial number later, but these did not mention the specific caliber number. Then add in the correct box and leather pad and it's an impressive package.

Impressive, but incorrect.
gatorcpa

 

Hi everyone...

I would suggest holding off on the entire Franken, comments..

The papers note. 28.10 mm movement , that. 34x , sn is one digit off.... The case is for a 34x caliber movement, movements marked w a 332 which is a 30.10 mm movement and to the best of my knowledge would not fit in this case .

It could be legit .....I as just waking up...would need to drink a cup or two of death wish can check some other notes ....

But I think it's a nice watch...

Good Hunting...

In other words, I would spend my money on this watch .... How much is another story.

Bill

 

Who pray tell are these so-called top vintage omega collectors?

 

I remember from reading Bill's presentation on Watchprosite from years ago that a lot of these early gold cased watches had dual case reference numbers on the caseback. The matchup with the ref. 2576 would be the ref. 2518.

http://naligazone.com/index.php/data-watch/omega/13-watch/omega/302

You can see another example of that here:

https://omegaforums.net/threads/omega-seamaster-ck-2518-with-343-rg-movement.2405/

Here is information on the entire cal. 3XX series of Omega bumper automatic movements:

http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?11&ranfft&&2uswk&Omega_343

The movement in the watch certainly looks like a 28.1mm cal. 34X, which would match the description in the paperwork, not the 30,1mm cal. 332.

Would a bridge from a cal. 332 fit a cal. 343? I really don't know the answer to this, but if the part would fit, that would be the most plausible explanation for this package.

Can't comment on the dial. There were a lot of odd dial configurations on the early Omega chronometers.

I have heard of situations where the chronometer paperwork and the boxes were mismatched somewhere in the supply chain between Omega, its dealers and the consumer.

Certainly an odd duck at best...
gatorcpa

 

Hi guys


Here is something I wrote up years ago about 352 Seamaster chronometers

http://www.watchprosite.com/page-wf.forumpost/fi-677/ti-516451/pi-3123906/

Look your mileage may vary .....

First and foremost I never saw this watch until this am and I don't know who the seller is ..

Eric and Michael are also advanced collectors ....and everyone has an opinion

I have paperwork for a 30.10 cent and has more of a discription of the movement like 28.10 RA PC JUB ...
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Don't remember seeing papers stating "352 , " or would it say 28.10 RA PC SC Rg ? Anyone have papers for a 352 ?

The 1952 dates seems ok ..

Just odd for someone to fake papers and being off a single digit .


Good hunting

Bill

 

Papers are shown above from the eBay listing. They just show the diameter of the movement as "28,1m/m". Since it is an Omega, I would think that the other abbreviations would already be understood by the testers.

Below is a not so great copy of COSC paperwork for a Cal. 352 that I pulled from this forum:



Note that it has the caliber designation in the upper left quadrant. This part was not included in the picture provided by the eBay seller, so we don't know what it says.
gatorcpa

 

Hi

While waiting in a dr office .... the height of the movement is 4.8 mm which is correct for a sub seconds bumper omega 28.10 movement so it should be a caliber 343 .....

Also box is typically marked Seamaster chronometre not automatic chronometre , also the Seamaster boxes I have seen are green in color .


Lots of stuff slightly odd .... does not make a log of sense to assemble this as such ...



Bill