Hi and happy x-mas to all of you! I recently bougth this screw back hand wind watch. The watch has 33mm diameter. Dial ist heavily patinated. I m wondering that the Omega Logo seems to be the only part that is gilt. I guess the watch is from the 40´s? What do you think?
The case has been badly overpolished to within an inch of it's life! The dial is pretty far gone . Movement looks ok but tired. with the sweep hand and the syringe hour/minute markers I'm wondering this is a "medicus"
Cal 23.4 I assume. Appears to be a naiad case but I don't know the ref. There are experts here. Maybe add "naiad" or "cal 23.4" to the thread title.
Just for my learning, what about the case makes you think it’s over polished? The lugs still look relatively sharp to my untrained eye...is it the caseback?
Thank you for your comments - I just thought it is not an important watch but a unusual piece, which is the reason why I wanted to share...
Patina is maybe on the heavy side, but it looks honest. It may have lost its case screws, I wonder why (careless servicing at one point?).
No case screws on the Naiads. they had a spacer, the first series with screws, the second ones, like yours had none. however, as the caliber is the standard 23.4SC, it has the holes for the screws.
I think a lot of this stuff was built for the military and them dumped on the market when the war ended and the need for military watches dried up overnight. I have a 30T2 powered Omega from 1944 with a very similar face which was marketed as the "Techron" after the war, claiming to be approved by the RCAF for navigational use. It has a similar spacer supporting the movement. A lot of the US Army pieces used a similar face. my watch
I don't even pretend to be an expert on these models, but what prompted me to say it could be missing screws is this: Notice the round imprint on the spacer ring? Looks to me like the imprint of a -missing- case screw. Of course, to be sure I would have to look at the watch with my eyes, the picture is not enough.