What time is it? Watches and horology

I don't understand the screw but on these.

They're the opposite way round from what you'd think

I think it has it's origins in the famed Swiss sense of humour.

Thin it would look better wid hex bolts. #justsayin

What about torx? Get that #tester_approved vibe

Omega watches in general are solid. Waterproof if the crown gasket has not perished or has been recently replaced, and as long as the case back has not pitted where it mates with the case.

Thanks Rod, sounds good.

Interesting Speedy on eBay

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Tintin on there for £3,700: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Omega-Speedmaster-Pro-TintinRacing-Moonwatch-Special-Edition/322840496785?epid=645176242&hash=item4b2acb0a91:g:ItMAAOSwO9JZ61h3

And another unusual one...

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Loving this hour hand

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Speaking of nice speedmasters, this is up for sale in r/watches at the moment.

Fifa referees watch; never sold, but given to referees during a couple of world cups in the late 70s, early 80s.

They want $6,500

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NOS tin tins are changing hands for $3600-$3800 even after dealer markup, this seller is taking the piss

The seller bought this on Thursday. These are pretty rare (500-1000 produced) and Omega bought up the last 3 for the museum. But this watch is in no way collectible condition (horrible case) so I doubt he’ll get anything like what he’s asking. I’m not really a fan of mid (rather than early) ‘70s omegas for several reasons: movement quality was starting to fall, but also omega were in financial difficulties and weren’t innovating like they were in the 60s and very early 70s.

Compared with my mint 176.007, I know which i’d rather have, despite the rarity factor...

Interesting, got a picture please?

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Now that is a picture.

Boom.

Thanks for the advice @Tenderloin , @rodabod , @freddo & @panic . Really appreciated. My dad has his heart set on a 1958 Seamaster so the hunt is on. I'll keep you updated with what we find.

Noice, slowly beginning to acknowledge condition is everything with vintage.

It may be exhausting, but I'd start looking through the movement serial numbers of every single watch which interests you, rather than searching for "1958". Perhaps you've been doing this already. That's 16M-ish as you know.

Freddo kindly pointed me in that direction with a chart with the codes for each year so it's what I'll be starting to do from now.

Yup. Once you’ve established that a vintage watch is correct (ie. dial, movement and case were originally sold as one watch) and the hands, crystal and crown are original (or correct replacements), dial and case condition is everything. Unfortunately dials get refinished or lume disintegrates and cases get polished. What I’ve seen is that if a collector’s grade piece would fetch for example £10k, an authentic but well worn watch eg. refinished dial, replaced crystal and heavily polished case) might sell for around 25% - 30% of a perfect example. The trouble is that amateur sellers and buyers see a mint example for sale and get over excited about the value of their own watch, which is usually nowhere near as good.

By way of illustration, this a decent example showing what the case on that fifa should look like. Notice the sharpness of the bevelling and the overall case shape. By contrast the former looks like a half-sucked lozenge.

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selling the bambino if anyone is interested.

£100

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Nick Shabaz watch review
- don't get into watches!

Somehow watched all of that, it was exactly like listening to Mort from Family Guy.

Also ^ is that not a bit too much for a Bambino? Can be had on Creation Watches for ~£96