I was in a thrift shop this weekend and came across this watch. A little beat up, but cheap enough to be worth it. (I'd rather have a legible original dial than some of the redials out there. Anyway...) The dial and hands look original to me, but I'm confused by the case. I'm familiar with the 5 digit reference numbers, but this case lacks one. I have a few different ideas. Either the number was polished off for the engraving, the movement was recased at some point, or the watch predates the start of their numbering convention. I just wasn't able to find something that looked similar. Maybe I didn't look hard enough. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Here's another picture of the dial. Doesn't show much more than the zoomed in one that bubba posted, but maybe a different angle helps.
I’m very surprised on how many time only are suddenly showing up with separate dials and minute track. I’ve never seen them before and I think we’ve seen 4 now in the past month. I’m not sure what to make of the dials, including this one. Don’t feel like I have enough info to make a call on originality, Anyhow this doesn’t really look like a UG case, could just be a recased cal 264, but would need to see a pic of the movement and also the inside case back to determine.
Hi again everyone. Popped the back on it and had a couple interesting finds. First off, it seems like this is a UG dial laid over...something else. Likely Waltham, because thats what the caseback says. So that minute track isn't part of the original dial. End of the day I have pretty clean movement and an ok dial. Maybe I'll keep an eye out on ebay for a case. (P.S. - Forgive the lighting, its not great but it's what I've got right now.)