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Chrono seamaster ref 176.001 : where does the truth lie ?

 Dear fellow Omega - purists,

Back home, I tried to gather some information on the model, and in particular on the reference engraved, 176.001 :

This exercise has definitely brought some confusion in my mind, since information is unclear about this model. What seems to be more or less clear is that :

- Ref 176.001 and 176.007 are very similar

- Ref 176.001 and 176.0001 are identical

- Ref 176.001 has been replaced by 176.007 (or 176.0007) in 1972 (as shown on the information notice from Omega):

- Some casebacks of ref 176.007 are engraved with both reference 176.007 and 176.001, the latter being crossed, which confirms the previous observation

What is still unclear regards :

- Are 176.001 and 176.007 cases absolutely similar ?

- Is ref 176.001 a prototype that was never produced, but immediately replaced by 176.007 ?

- Re. bezel : inner bezel (with tachymeter scale) could not fit on my watch, but has an external bezel ever existed for this ref ?

I have to admit that I gave up couple of years ago, but the post of Ruckdee revigorated my interest for this mysterious reference. I would therefore be very glad if any of you could post pictures of other examples of ref 176.001, or what is believed to be so, so that I could get closer to some certainties...

Thanks in advance for your help. This is my first post on the Omega Purists forum (I am more JLC-oriented), and hope I did not breach any unofficial rule here. Furthermore, some of you may have intervened on other fora some years ago, when I first tried to understand all this; they could here pursue their reflexions...

Best regards to all of you,

Karmin