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A flood of vintage Omega Cosmic watches

 

Team,

A short story about this photo session:

Weeks back I got a phone call from one watchmaker, not mine, saying that an old guy was looking for someone to take pictures of his small watch collection. I said that I only do this as a hobby. I was about to hung up when he said "you go to enjoy the watches, they are Omega Cosmic from 40's/50's".

This phrase changed everything and we book a session for the same day, considered that the owner was from another town.

The owner is an old gentleman. dressed very conventionally with a dark suit and he said that he needs to take pictures of those watches to send to his brother, as a demonstration that he did not sold the watches that they inherited from their father. He want to know how much I was charging for the pictures and I sated that my only request was his authorization to post the pictures here and he agreed after I showed the PuristSPro site.

Something about the Omega Cosmic.

The Omega Cosmic Triple Date Moon Phase is a watch that Omega produced (correct me if I'm wrong) on the late 40's to the 50's and it was one of the creams of Omega collection at that time.

Here in Brazil, Omega was a high end brand and a Cosmic customer was seem as a very successful person.

All Cosmic Triple Date Moon Phase is powered my a hand wind in house Omega caliber.

Here is an advertizing piece of that time:

Here is the box with the collection. I was not expecting what was inside:

Cosmic galore!

My hands started to shake when I see the inside:

I never ever saw this Cosmic "concentration".

With the watches, some certificates! This one from 1952!

Let's go for the watches. The watch quality varies, as we go to see.

Some, I believe, has a redone dial.

Some, has a wrong crown.

Notice that most of the watches have a Portuguese names for months and day of the week.

Some in gold, some steel, some gold caped.

Wrong hands?

This one is 100% original, IMHO.

Weird dial patina

Just to compare the size, here is one over the watch (Omega 42mm) that I was wearing.

When I finish with the pics, I wrote a CD and the owner departed, with his case full of Omega Cosmic inside a grocery bag. No one will guess the treasury that he was carrying.

Funny point. I forgot to ask his name.

After that, I was thinking about how many other collections, that we never go to see, are out there.

Thanks for seeing.

Cheers,

Nilo

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