Early 16 to mid 16 mil serial number, I have a beautiful Connie from '56 and nothing beats a pie pan, that was a particularly good time for connies too! They had my favorite combination of pie pan and bullhorn lugs, with arrowhead and crosshairs! If you can find one, you won't want for another watch! Or the railroad connies are great too! Expect to pay around two grand for a good one, but deals are to be had.
Is that based on an extract for the watch? I have 1956 as a lower serial range than that. I would estimate it in the low-mid 15m range. I have seen low 16m serials with extracts as late as Dec 1958.
Early 15 to mid 15 mil serial number, I have a beautiful Connie from '56 and nothing beats a pie pan, that was a particularly good time for connies too! They had my favorite combination of pie pan and bullhorn lugs, with arrowhead and crosshairs! If you can find one, you won't want for another watch! Or the railroad connies are great too! Expect to pay around two grand for a good one, but deals are to be had.
Absolutely. This one of mine's 1956 according to the serial numbers table and if I could only keep one vintage Omega, this would be it. The difficulty is finding one and then it won't be cheap, but you could argue it's economical if it saves you buying a load more vintage Omegas (though it doesn't seem to have worked for me...)
just trying to broaden my knowledge into other collections
Perhaps what you need is a catalog. This one is from 1955, and you can access it here:
http://omega-constellation-collectors.blogspot.com/2016/03/omega-norman-morris-catalogue-1955.html
If I was looking to buy an Omega, that matched my year of birth (as per title) what would you recommend as a economical buy. My preference would always be for a; non-date, stainless, simple dial and no square ones - watches should be round! This is theoretical as I've yet to go down the collectors route.
Paul
What are your preferences on center seconds vs. sub-seconds? Do you have a preference for silver-colored hands and dial furniture, or do you like gold or rose-gold hands and applied markers in a SS case? Any preferences about the type of markers (arabic numerals, roman numerals, stick markers, arrow markers, etc.)? Do you have limitations about the case size? Lume or no-lume? Preferred style of hands? Manual-winding or automatic?
Just trying to help you nail down your style since there are a lot of options.
