Omega

Team, During our traditional weekly GTG, a dear friend was proudly wearing this Omega. It looks like a 70's watch under very impressive mint conditions. Few pics: 1) With my cup of espresso, as it must be. 2) On my wrist. I don't favor mesh straps but thi...  

...found a few old diving compasses before, but alas, never a decent watch. cheers Tony

I think this is a nice find. I went looking around for the first time with a watchmaker friend who insisted that I do some looking around, and we came across this one. It looked good, and my watchmaker friend verified that it looked authentic. After some ...  

Very nice and should be made around 1968. The flea marked search can reveal a lot of hidden treasures and, that's the bad part, a lot of terrible nightmares. Yesterday I believe that I got a treasure (not Omega) but I need to do a lot of homework before I... 

Thank you very much for the information on the watch, Nilo. I'll be doing more reading and digging up on this and hopefully will get it back soon so that I can start experiencing what you and the others here do with vintage pieces. I'm already starting to... 

. . . close. Found one Omega in a pawn shop . . . . . . another on Craigslist . . . [Craigslist photo] . . . and best of all, a score in my favorite bar! Sorry, but this dial side view of the cal 565 movement highlighting the replacement date ring is the ...  

We don't have pawn shops here! The only place where a person can pawn any good is state controlled and they only do, from time to time, some auctions, covered with an extremely complex bureaucratic process. But we have some flea markets where, if you are ...