What have I got here, it was cheaper than buying parts....

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Does this look right for a WWW Omega? AllI know is the serial numbers are correct for 1944 and the dial / hands have radium lume, everything else is a mystery.
I actually bought it for the movement to fix another watch, all I saw pre-purchase was the dial and a picture of the movement, not the WWW stamped case.
I paid the price of an average working 30T2 movement for the whole watch.

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I’m not sure what it is, but it does look like it might have radium lume on the dial. That’s not something that you want to take apart unless you really know what you are doing. Take it to a professional watchmaker and let them service it.
 
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Does it look like it has had the fixed strap bars removed?
 
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Does it look like it has had the fixed strap bars removed?
It looks like they were drilled out and flush stainless plugs put in the holes to create holes for springbars.

 
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I’m not sure what it is, but it does look like it might have radium lume on the dial. That’s not something that you want to take apart unless you really know what you are doing. Take it to a professional watchmaker and let them service it.
This is very sound advice, watchmakers typically take safety precautions when handling tritium, like nitrile gloves and a mask to avoid the dust.

Radium is thousands of times more dangerous than tritium, you do not want that watch open outside of a controlled environment
 
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This is very sound advice, watchmakers typically take safety precautions when handling tritium, like nitrile gloves and a mask to avoid the dust.

Radium is thousands of times more dangerous than tritium, you do not want that watch open outside of a controlled environment
The crystal is staying on this one 🤣
 
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Try the Military Watch Resource forum.

Hands look correct, but dial has been refinished. Case? No fixed arms.

Knowledgeable people there. There is also a Facebook forum now, but many of the members prefer the standard forum
 
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Try the Military Watch Resource forum.

Hands look correct, but dial has been refinished. Case? No fixed arms.

Knowledgeable people there. There is also a Facebook forum now, but many of the members prefer the standard forum
Are you sure its been refinished, its still radium lume, can they repaint them without removing the lume?
 
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Are you sure its been refinished,
Yes.
Compare the Ω to contemporary versions. Hands may be original radium. Dial could be Tritium, or Radium.
 
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Is it so hard to believe that a watchmaker reapplied radium lume to copy how an original dirty dozen dial would have looked?

I think it is also worth making it very clear to everyone here that this watch is already listed for sale online as a "completely original" dirty dozen watch with a "100% original, unrestored dial".
 
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Is it so hard to believe that a watchmaker reapplied radium lume to copy how an original dirty dozen dial would have looked?

I think it is also worth making it very clear to everyone here that this watch is already listed for sale online as a "completely original" dirty dozen watch with a "100% original, unrestored dial".
This watch is definitely NOT for sale currently.....
 
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This watch is definitely NOT for sale currently.....
Well it was for sale on Chrono24 just 12 hours ago, so are we playing word games here?