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jomu_george
·Please can someone identify this Omega and tell me its ref? Thank you.
Which Omega is this One?
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·Short answer: it can’t be pinned to an exact reference from these two photos - but it can be narrowed a long way.
It’s a mid-1950s Omega dress automatic in yellow gold: honeycomb (waffle) dial, faceted dart markers, sub-seconds at 6, “Automatic” under the logo. That combination puts it in the bumper-automatic era, so the movement is most likely calibre 342 - the sub-seconds bumper, made roughly 1952–56.
The reference number isn’t on the outside of these. It’s stamped inside the snap-on caseback - usually a four-digit number (gold sub-seconds automatics of this period fall in families like 2714 and 2862) alongside the gold fineness and case maker’s marks. Opening it is a case-knife job at the lip of the snap back, best done by a watchmaker on a gold case. A photo of the inside caseback plus the movement would confirm the reference, and the movement serial would date it to the year.
The spotted patina on the dial is actually a good sign - it reads as an original, never-redialed dial.
It’s a mid-1950s Omega dress automatic in yellow gold: honeycomb (waffle) dial, faceted dart markers, sub-seconds at 6, “Automatic” under the logo. That combination puts it in the bumper-automatic era, so the movement is most likely calibre 342 - the sub-seconds bumper, made roughly 1952–56.
The reference number isn’t on the outside of these. It’s stamped inside the snap-on caseback - usually a four-digit number (gold sub-seconds automatics of this period fall in families like 2714 and 2862) alongside the gold fineness and case maker’s marks. Opening it is a case-knife job at the lip of the snap back, best done by a watchmaker on a gold case. A photo of the inside caseback plus the movement would confirm the reference, and the movement serial would date it to the year.
The spotted patina on the dial is actually a good sign - it reads as an original, never-redialed dial.
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jomu_george
·Thank you
Thank you, will look up images for 2714 and 2862.
Short answer: it can’t be pinned to an exact reference from these two photos - but it can be narrowed a long way.
It’s a mid-1950s Omega dress automatic in yellow gold: honeycomb (waffle) dial, faceted dart markers, sub-seconds at 6, “Automatic” under the logo. That combination puts it in the bumper-automatic era, so the movement is most likely calibre 342 - the sub-seconds bumper, made roughly 1952–56.
The reference number isn’t on the outside of these. It’s stamped inside the snap-on caseback - usually a four-digit number (gold sub-seconds automatics of this period fall in families like 2714 and 2862) alongside the gold fineness and case maker’s marks. Opening it is a case-knife job at the lip of the snap back, best done by a watchmaker on a gold case. A photo of the inside caseback plus the movement would confirm the reference, and the movement serial would date it to the year.
The spotted patina on the dial is actually a good sign - it reads as an original, never-redialed dial.
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