Just bought this via eBay and received it yesterday. A link to the auction is below. Watch appears to be working well and looks nice. I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, opinions on the purchase. My concerns are that the band is a fake. Very light weight compared to my other Mark II bracelet and end pieces are not stamped like my other bracket. Also, I'm not sure that the box is from the dame era as the watch. And the dial, my other Mark II has a T on either side of the SWISS MADE, this dial does not. Thank you all in advance for all comments.

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Here are some good pictures of this watch:
http://www.keepthetime.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=184

note the markings on the buckle appear to match yours.

The dial appears different however no "T" either side of swiss made on yours and the design is different - It looks like an original replacement dial, of the type from this page?
http://www.ofrei.com/page343.html

 

The dial is a modern service dial. Bracelet appears to be a genuine 1162/173. I have seen many examples without any markings on the end pieces.

 

Thank you for the info and links. I attempted to load better pictures of the watch I purchased, but I'm not sure they came through. The watch on Keep the Time didn't have a sale price, may I ask your opinion on what I paid?

 

Thank you sir. May I ask your opinion on the price I paid? Too much, fair?

 

The racing version, which you bought, has quite variability in final sale price on eBAY. This appears to be dependent on condition. From your pictures it is a bit difficult to evaluate, but I think you paid at the upper range of fair. My 2c

 

I'm a beginner to this, but I've got a mark 2 that I know was never serviced to compare.

Things that stick out as different from my watch:

The dials orange indicator squares and omega symbol are more red/orange. (my watch: yello/orange)
The chrono hands are more red/orange and the colors don't match perfectly. (my watch: chrono hands yello/orange and color matching)
No 173 markings on the ends of the watch bracelet.

Based on those differences I think everyone is correct regarding the service dial/hands/bracelet.

I have seen a number of the more red/orange hands and dial markings on ebay so thanks everyone for letting me know they are omega service parts! Good info.

 

I really appreciate your thoughts. I do intend on wearing this watch. While I didn't purchase this watch as a collectible, I do hope that if I decided to sell it down the road, I wouldn't lose money. Thanks again for your comments.

 

Thank you for sharing, this is great to know. As I mentioned above, I do intend on wearing this watch. Knowing now that the watch has been overhauled, it would have been nice to have had the original parts included. Thanks again.

 

The price is fine for this racing MK 2. The hands and dial are pretty expensive, over $300, the bracelet if new (modern replace, correct ref. etc.) would be ca. $170-$250.
The case looks fine too, with the correct Omega finishing, crystal is probably new too.
No worries you'd recover your investment, this is the most desirable MK2 version.

The only problem would be if someone would have replaced these parts from a previous black version (considering it's a bit under this "exotic" racing version), but an Omega Extract would let you know which dial version had this at origin.

 

Omega Extract? I just googled that. Looks like Omega will search their records for info on the watches movement serial # and case #. What kind of information could I expect to find? I'm assuming it would only show service/repair info that was done at Omega? Is it worth it?

 

The Omega Extract does tell you the colour of the dial that was originally supplied with that watch, I've not seen the extract for a MKII Racing but I'd assume it would say something other than just black dial.

Is it worth it? I would say probably not worth the effort, the dial you have now isnt the original anymore so its value as 'all original' is already lost. In my opinion it would only be worth it if you intended to replace the service dial with an original dial and nice original racing dials are hard to come by. There are plenty of good MKII black dials but not many racing dials.

But anyway you still have a nice looking MKII from 1969