In love with ...
... this Omega WWW MoD VB 10033 dial (hands are radium still). Not uncommon but rarer than the usual logo dial A very nice addition to my milwatch collection Cheers ^^ - Fred ...
Fantastic!
Love everything about it — crystal, hands, crown. Are the logo versions relatively easy to find in good shape?
Thank you for your nice comment :)
... the logo dial variant is pretty easy to find as around 25000 of this watch were produced back in the days Picture below is from acollectedman website ...
Late '40s production, Fred? Unfamiliar with that dial variation - does it . . .
. . . convey unit designation? Two fairly common Omega military refs in my collection, 2179 and UK2292, which happened to be on my wrist . . . . . . earlier this week. Best, Art ...
Hmmm, this 2292! I was at a party, two days ago, and one of the watchmakers who attended this party showed me the very same one, and told me that his mother in law found it for 50 Cents..
In a flea market and gifted him... I told him that this kind of things never happened to me! Best, my friend. Nicolas
If she knew it was worth three thousand times that amount . . .
. . . maybe she wouldn't have gifted it to him at all. It's probably the most common Ω military judging by current availability. My hunch is that far more were made than the ten thousand 2179s contracted by the American military. Art
CK2292 (stainless steel) would be uncommon, with reportedly 3000 contracted. UK2292, the alloy case version . . .
. . . must've been produced in the tens of thousands. They're much easier to find than the stainless versions.
No, it's an aluminum alloy, Nicolas. Can't remember . . .
. . . what it was alloyed with, will have to check. The caseback and crown are stainless steel, but case and bezel are alloy.
Nuno Cazeiro's Ω chronometer website lists the case metal as aluminum alloyed . . .
. . . with copper, manganese, and magnesium.
From Omega? Not that I know of. Supposedly, the British specified alloy cases . . .
. . . as they don't reflect light as brightly, which would've been crucial during night-time operations.
It’s a MoD dial...
... with tritium plots (instead of the original radium), a swap made in the late 50’s by her Majesty’s MoD services. VB 10033 is the British stock number previous to the NSN code. ...
Ah, thanks for the explanation, Fred. Similar to the '56 RAF, then . . .
. . . with replacement dials fitted to surplus conflict-era watches. Art ...