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Strap looks really chunky for the watch, but I’m used to much thinner leather for smaller dress watches. I like your de-engraving. Hopefully you didn’t take off too much metal.
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You might be right, but I think it’s more the roughness of the finish than the chunkiness so hopefully it will be better when it’s smoothed out a bit with wear.
I feared the same so I was careful to remove as little as possible. The engraving was quite shallow and I stopped before the lowest couple of spots.
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Decided to try it out on an old strap of similar leather and construction. Not too shabby I think.
Power reserve is 44,5 hours. Good enough for me.
drøn
Just felt like sharing this:
I finally found a suitable old Omega for my wifes 30th next month. She want's a bulls eye suverän, but this will have to do. According to serial number it's from (second half of) 1949, so exactly 40 years older than her, which is kinda fun.
Keeps time t about + 7.5 secs a day and I am testing power reserve now, currently at 30 h.
I made a strap and a case for it in the hope that she will put it in the case when not wearing it and thus not loose it too soon.
The case back had a hand scratched engraving that I decided to remove and try to restore something similar to the factory lathe marks underneath. Maybe not for the purists, but so be it.
Other than that I'd like to know your thoughts on condition and originality. i know the crown is a replacement and am looking into if I can change it myself if I can find the correct signed one.