Need more pictures if you want significant help. No way to value a watch without seeing the dial, crown, case... Does that movement even say Omega on it anywhere? I have no expertise in this area - but I'd imagine they would put their name on it.
You have an Omega caliber, possibly a 19'''. What do the numbers/letters under the balance say? What is the diameter of the movement only in millimetres? PS: Omega didn't brand all of their early movements with "Omega".
Looks like a nice chronometer grade Omega, with chatons, decorations and a "col de cygne" regulator. It is not a 19' (I mean the true 19' even if it could be 19 lignes), even if this movement shares some features with the 19' and has a similar construction. I cannot read what is under the balance. Could you tell us and, as Jim already asked, tell us the size of the movement?
it says swiss 1713916, and since we are from America, we are still trying to figure out the conversion. Does 37.5 mm sounds correct. about a 16 size in an American watch.
So it should be a 17 lignes. There is a 37,5 Omega caliber (37,5 being its size and its name), but it is not at all like yours. This movement really looks like an Omega. I will do some further research tomorrow.
Ok, Thank You very much. Being from America and this being only the second swiss watch ive had(both in the last two days) I don't know what a ligne is? Sorry for my ignorance.
It's an unusual caliber, I'll be looking as well. A ligne (shown as ''') is a unit used to measure Swiss (and other European) watches. Thus, a 17''' caliber is 37.5mm in diameter. A 9''' caliber is 20.7mm in diameter, therefore quite small and at the other end of the scale a 30''' is 67.3mm dia.
I have found something very close: the caliber number 52 (in the 17 lignes version), with a decoration like one of the 53. Yours is more like the 53 but the 53 is not supposed to have a 17 lignes and 17 jewels version. Note that the numbers of this doc (52 and 53 do not correspond to any reference. They are only a numbering of this page. The ref are above the pics. https://sites.google.com/site/hourconquest/oomega
Yes. Yours could have been specially decorated to match the American taste of that time concerning pocket watches.
Sure is a mystery isn't it. I really have to thanks you two for taking all this to help me out! Thank You!
The fact that the movement is not "Omega" could mean that is one of the sister brands made for export. The Omega company at the turn of the 19th century made more than twenty other brands both high quality and mass consumer models. This watch could have been one of them and fitted with an Omega dial early in its life.