SamJH
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Three years of watch collecting: SOTC Omega
My dear wife, also known to post on as Watchwidow, occasionally and unintentionally impersonates me. She forgets to sign in as Watchwidow and posts as Sam JH. This has happened twice now that I can recall. One I don’t remember. One I won’t let her forget.
She posted my 1000th post on TZ by accident. She is currently in fear for her life (which is unwarranted, but I’m out of town and will let her imagination run wild), even though I told her I’m not upset. Damon, the unsympathetic TZ moderator (just kidding), thought that it was one of the funniest things he had seen in a while. (Don't tell Watchwidow, but I think so too. And I'm thinking I can used this for mileage down the road . . .)
Here are the thoughts I cobbled together after three years of watch collecting, and the core of my collection, the Omegas.
______________________________________________________________________
Watch forums, and particularly the Omega Forums, has become a daily part of my routine. I have learned much, met exciting and incredibly knowledgeable fellow watch enthusiasts in correspondence, on the boards, in PMs and in the real world.
The Forums have probably tempered my collecting, slowed me down and focused me. I think I would have burned out by now were it not for the sometimes unconscious, sometimes overt guidance and advice of the group and its members. I came to collecting mechanical watches late in life, buying my first quality watch in 2004. I had mechanical alarm clocks and cheap wristwatches as a boy, but don’t recall them in detail. Always fascinated with watches, I usually owned from 3 to 7 quartz watches of various sorts at any one time.
I bought a good watch in Las Vegas, thinking that this was going to be my do everything wear everywhere watch. An Omega (of course!) automatic Speedy, a triple date, 3523.30, although I couldn’t have told you any of those details at the time.
Two things happened.
First, I began researching Omega in books available at the local bookstore and library and on the web. A couple of months later, I bought a vintage Omega, a hybrid I later learned, but still a favorite. I was (and still am) hooked on the brand.
Second, my brother, who had been seriously ill with lupus for ten years, with the worst case I have ever heard of or seen, began to succumb. Philip was ten year younger than I and was struck with lupus, hard, before he had much of a youth. I was able to be with him at the hospital for his last several weeks, really, almost a month. Much of this was with very limited visiting hours.
I could work at my job remotely at a local deli with a wireless connection, close to the hospital, but there was not enough work to fill my days. I began to research and shop for watches, buying six Omegas and one other brand while Philip lay dying. This was my distraction and comfort, of a sort. I was still a very uneducated purchaser, and only one of those watches would I buy today. Philip was interested when I became fascinated by watches, and I think he would have approved.
After Philip’s death, I continued to shop obsessively and discovered TZ a couple of months later and The Purist about a year after that. I found comfort organizing the information about my watches, developing a database some of you have seen.
I bought ten watches the month following his death, five the month after that, and at least one a month for the next year. While these were relatively inexpensive watches, and I never endangered my credit or financial well-being, my volume of purchases were hardly prudent, and some were less than careful.
It wasn’t until June 2006 that I went a month without buying a watch. It was difficult to confront this evidence of my grief manifesting itself as this obsession when I began writing this post. My wife, the aforementioned Watchwidow, has known this was how I was grieving all along and only let me know about it when I was ready to hear it.
My early scattershot collecting has become more focused. My collection is centered on Omega, and currently includes 53 examples, including some from all the major lines except Dynamic, includes both mens and ladies and are from all nine decades, 1920s to 2000s. Of course, the quality varies from new to nearly absolute crap!
Statistics on the collection
Decade
1920s - 1
1930s - 2
1940s - 7
1950s - 8
1960s - 6
1970s - 6
1980s - 8
1990s - 7
2000s - 8
Total - 53
Movement Type
8 Auto, bumper
25 Auto, rotor
14 Manual
4 Quartz, battery
2 Tuning fork
53 Total
22 chronometers; 20 mechanical & 2 tuning fork
Calendar complications
25 with Date
8 with Day
6 with Month
5 with Moonphase
1 with perpetual calendar
Chronograph
1 with Hands 1/5th sec
5 with Hands 1/6th sec
6 with Hands 1/8th sec
1 Rattrapante, 1/8th sec
2 with LCD 1/100th sec
1 with Hands 1/100th sec
16 Total
Two alarms, one mechanical, one quartz
Descriptions are nothing – the image is the thing. Seven watches are in various stages of repair and restoration, and thus don’t have consistent photos. Two of these have no photos at all.
Without further ado, the State of the Collection, August 2007, with photos of nearly all the watches in a consistent format.
11 Speedmasters (all the Speedies are in the photo below)
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1972 Omega Speedmaster Mark II 145.014 manual, SS/SS, black racing dial/chrono (861)
1973 Omega Speedmaster 125 ST 378.0801 auto,SS/SS, black/Jubilee watch chronograph/chronometer (1041)
1974 Omega Speedsonic tuning fork, SS/SS, mirror gray/tuning fork chrono (1255)
1985 Omega Speedmaster Mark V ST 376.0806 auto, SS/SS, black/Teutonic (1045)
1986 Omega Speedmaster Teutonic Moon ST 345.081 manual, TT 18kYG/TT 18kYG brushed, white/moonphase (866)
1998 Omega Speedmaster Professional 1957 Replica ST 345.0222/3594.50.00 manual; SS/SS; black face/chronograph (1861)
2000 Omega Speedmaster Professional X-33 3290.50.00 quartz, TT/TT, Analog&LCD/multifunction (1666)
2001 Omega Speedmaster Rattrapante ST 377.320/3540.30 auto, SS/SS, silver/X-33 case (3600)
2003 Omega Speedmaster Professional 3578.51.00 manual, SS/SS, Snoopy dial/caseback (1861)
2004 Omega Speedmaster Triple Date 3523.30 auto, SS/SS, silver/triple date-chronograph-24hr (1151)
2007 Omega Speedmaster 50th Anniversary Patch 311.30.42.30.01.001 manual, SS/SS, black w/patch/chronograph (1861)
Vintage Speedy Mark II
1970s big boys – mechanical Speedy 125 and tuning fork Speedsonic
1980s Teutonics
Speedy Pro variations, although only one SAYS "Pro": 1957 Replica, Snoopy and 50th Anniversary
Same case style, one mechanical sophistication (Rattrapante), one electronic wizardry (X-33); and the one that started it off, the triple date
8 Seamasters (all the Seamasters pictured below)
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1952 Omega Seamaster Calendar CO 2627 auto,14kGP/SS, white face/date @ 6 (353)
1953 Omega Seamaster Deluxe OT 14324 auto, 18kYG/leather, hooded lugs/chronometer (352)
1959 Omega Seamaster 9068 auto, 14k YG/leather, white applied indices/chronometer (505)
1968 Omega Seamaster WG Day Date BC 168.0023 auto, 18kWG/18kWG, silver/chronometer expansion bracelet (751)
1970 Omega Seamaster Memomatic ST 166.0072 auto, SS/leather, gray-black/minute alarm date (980)
1988 Omega Seamaster Polaris 1/100th 382.1231/2493 quartz, 18kYGSS/18kYGSS, black/chronograph-date (1670)
1999 Omega Seamaster Professional Chrono-Diver 2296.80.00 auto,TT RG/TT RG, blue wave/date-double chrono (1164)
2001 Omega Seamaster Professional Chrono-Diver 2298.80.00; TI 378.0504.400 auto,TT/TT, blue wave/date-double chrono (1164)
Vintage 1950s elegance: Calendar, Deluxe, 1959
1960s white gold chronometer class/1970s mechanical alarm Memomatic/1980s quartz chronograph with analog 1/100th second display
His & her ChronoDivers
5 Constellations (one is at the spa), all vintage but one
The group shot on the original box for the 1956 Deluxe (missing one)
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1956 Omega Constellation De Luxe OT 2799 auto, 18kYG/18kYG mesh, mirrored gold/sterling box (354)
1958 Omega Constellation Grand Luxe OT 2930 auto, 18kYG/18kYG, mirrored stepped gold/brickworks (505)
1961 Omega Constellation CK 14393 auto, SS/SS grains of rice, black pie pan/date (561)
1969 Omega Constellation auto, 18kYG/leather, gold face/coin edge bezel half hooded (564)[not pictured above]
2002 Omega Constellation ladies auto, SS diam. bezel/SS, silvered w /diam. 50th anniversary (2520)
The Deluxe and Grande Luxe
Two redialed versions, 1961 and 1969
And a modern ladies
5 Devilles, including a Seamaster De Ville, all present below
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1963 Omega Deville 561.007 auto, 18kYG/leather white/square (671)
1964 Omega Seamaster De Ville KL 6610 auto, 14kYG/leather, white crosshair/date (560)
1970 Omega De Ville Ladymatic BA 751.0253 auto, 18kYG/18kYG textured, gold face (661)
1998 Omega De Ville Prestige Tonneau 4653.31 auto, 18kYG/leather, white sunburst/jump hour (1221)
2006 Omega De Ville coaxial 4531.31.00 auto, SS/SS silvered white/brickworks chronometer (2500)
Ladies first, both automatics
1960s and Modern simple classic Omega design
1998 rather funky jump hour -- 10:08 just doesn't look the same does it?
That unusual watch is a perfect segue to what I call Omega's Specialties: limited production and rarely seen watches,
9 examples, seven pictured below
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1981 Omega Equinoxe quartz, SS/SS, reversible chronograph/timer analog/digital (1655)
1981 Omega La Magique quartz, 18kYG/leather brown/mystery dial (1357)
1983 Omega Phase de Lune Or BA 156.0002 auto, 18kYG/leather, engraved silvered/ moonphase triple date (715)
1984 Omega Louis Brandt GMT auto, 18kYG/leather, GMT limited edition (717)[not pictured above]
1984 Omega Louis Brandt manual, 18kYG/leather, gilded open/7 diamond crown (626)
1991 Omega Louis Brandt II chronograph auto, 18kYG/leather, white Clous de Paris guilloche/decorated mvmt (1158)
1991 Omega Louis Brandt II Date 5311.30 auto, 18kYG/leather, white guilloche/21k rotor (1119)[not pictured above]
1991 Omega Louis Brandt II Perpetual 175.0200 auto, 18kYG/black leather, white Clous de Paris guilloche/decorated mvmt (1116)
2002 Omega Museum 1951 Cosmic auto, 18kRG/leather, blue/triple date-moonphase (2601)
Omega issued the first Louis Brandt Collection I in 1984, in editions of less than 500. The Phase de Lune Or in 1983 pre-dated the collection and shared the base movement with several of the Louis Brandt watches, and is followed by a manual wind open gilded face and the GMT
The Louis Brandt Collection II followed in 1991, with a date, chronograph and perpetual calendar. We have one of each (date not pictured)
In the early 1980s, Omega showed its wizardry with quartz.
The transparent center and 2.6mm thinness of La Magique
The Equinoxe
And the Museum Collection was a new addition for the new Millenium
7 vintage manual wind watches, 4 pictured below
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1924 Omega ladies OJ 716 AI manual, 14kYG/green lizard, gold aged (23.7 T2)
1934 Omega Cushion manual, nickle/leather, silver/subsecond (26.5 SOB T1)[not pictured above]
1934 Omega Tank CK 891 AL manual, SS/leather, white face/subsecond (20F)
1943 Omega 30 T2 CK 2902 manual, YGP14k/black leather, black redial/subsecond (30 T2)
1944 Omega manual; 18kYG/twistoflex; gold/subsecond (28)[not pictured above]
1947 Omega Cosmic Moonphase CO 2486 manual, 14kRGP/leather, silvered redial/1st year (27 DL PC)[not pictured above]
1952 Omega hybrid N 6555 manual, 14kYG/leather, black face/subsecond (302)
Two pre-WWII watches, in date order (No photo of 1934 Cushion Shape)
Two WWII-era watches
Two post-war watches, the Cosmic, Omega's first date watch and a very flat manual
3 early automatics
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1947 Omega hybrid F 6212 bumper auto, 14kYGF/leather, Art Deco white/subsecond (28.1 RA PC)
1951 Omega bumper auto, 14kYG/leather, black face/sweep second (351)
1957 Omega Ladymatic 2940 auto, SS/SS, white/1st ladies rotor auto (455)
3 examples of Omega's finest early automatics, the chronometer bumper autos, pictured on the style box the Centenaries were delivered in
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1948 Omega Centenary OT 2500 auto 1, 18kYG/leather, gold face/Jubilee watch (30.10 RA PC AM JUB)
1948 Omega Centenary OT 2500 auto 2, 18kYG/leather, gold face/Jubilee watch (30.10 RA PC AM JUB)
1949 Omega Automatic Chronometre OT 2514 auto, 18kYG/leather, gold redial/gold indices index reg. (343)
2 other watches don't group up well
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1966 Omega Jewelry manual, 18kWG rectangular/18kWG, silver/backwinder 8 diamonds (690)
1972 Omega F300hz 198.0045 tuning fork, 14kYGP/leather gold-brown/day-date chronometer (1260)
A Geneve or perhaps Seamaster tuning fork (not marked)
And a Jewelry manual backwinder
11 Speedies
8 Seamasters
5 Connies
5 Devilles
9 Specialties
8 manual winds, including Jewelry
6 autos, including the bumper chronometers
1 tuning fork Geneve
53 total
Thanks to everyone on the forum
She posted my 1000th post on TZ by accident. She is currently in fear for her life (which is unwarranted, but I’m out of town and will let her imagination run wild), even though I told her I’m not upset. Damon, the unsympathetic TZ moderator (just kidding), thought that it was one of the funniest things he had seen in a while. (Don't tell Watchwidow, but I think so too. And I'm thinking I can used this for mileage down the road . . .)
Here are the thoughts I cobbled together after three years of watch collecting, and the core of my collection, the Omegas.
______________________________________________________________________
Watch forums, and particularly the Omega Forums, has become a daily part of my routine. I have learned much, met exciting and incredibly knowledgeable fellow watch enthusiasts in correspondence, on the boards, in PMs and in the real world.
The Forums have probably tempered my collecting, slowed me down and focused me. I think I would have burned out by now were it not for the sometimes unconscious, sometimes overt guidance and advice of the group and its members. I came to collecting mechanical watches late in life, buying my first quality watch in 2004. I had mechanical alarm clocks and cheap wristwatches as a boy, but don’t recall them in detail. Always fascinated with watches, I usually owned from 3 to 7 quartz watches of various sorts at any one time.
I bought a good watch in Las Vegas, thinking that this was going to be my do everything wear everywhere watch. An Omega (of course!) automatic Speedy, a triple date, 3523.30, although I couldn’t have told you any of those details at the time.
Two things happened.
First, I began researching Omega in books available at the local bookstore and library and on the web. A couple of months later, I bought a vintage Omega, a hybrid I later learned, but still a favorite. I was (and still am) hooked on the brand.
Second, my brother, who had been seriously ill with lupus for ten years, with the worst case I have ever heard of or seen, began to succumb. Philip was ten year younger than I and was struck with lupus, hard, before he had much of a youth. I was able to be with him at the hospital for his last several weeks, really, almost a month. Much of this was with very limited visiting hours.
I could work at my job remotely at a local deli with a wireless connection, close to the hospital, but there was not enough work to fill my days. I began to research and shop for watches, buying six Omegas and one other brand while Philip lay dying. This was my distraction and comfort, of a sort. I was still a very uneducated purchaser, and only one of those watches would I buy today. Philip was interested when I became fascinated by watches, and I think he would have approved.
After Philip’s death, I continued to shop obsessively and discovered TZ a couple of months later and The Purist about a year after that. I found comfort organizing the information about my watches, developing a database some of you have seen.
I bought ten watches the month following his death, five the month after that, and at least one a month for the next year. While these were relatively inexpensive watches, and I never endangered my credit or financial well-being, my volume of purchases were hardly prudent, and some were less than careful.
It wasn’t until June 2006 that I went a month without buying a watch. It was difficult to confront this evidence of my grief manifesting itself as this obsession when I began writing this post. My wife, the aforementioned Watchwidow, has known this was how I was grieving all along and only let me know about it when I was ready to hear it.
My early scattershot collecting has become more focused. My collection is centered on Omega, and currently includes 53 examples, including some from all the major lines except Dynamic, includes both mens and ladies and are from all nine decades, 1920s to 2000s. Of course, the quality varies from new to nearly absolute crap!
Statistics on the collection
Decade
1920s - 1
1930s - 2
1940s - 7
1950s - 8
1960s - 6
1970s - 6
1980s - 8
1990s - 7
2000s - 8
Total - 53
Movement Type
8 Auto, bumper
25 Auto, rotor
14 Manual
4 Quartz, battery
2 Tuning fork
53 Total
22 chronometers; 20 mechanical & 2 tuning fork
Calendar complications
25 with Date
8 with Day
6 with Month
5 with Moonphase
1 with perpetual calendar
Chronograph
1 with Hands 1/5th sec
5 with Hands 1/6th sec
6 with Hands 1/8th sec
1 Rattrapante, 1/8th sec
2 with LCD 1/100th sec
1 with Hands 1/100th sec
16 Total
Two alarms, one mechanical, one quartz
Descriptions are nothing – the image is the thing. Seven watches are in various stages of repair and restoration, and thus don’t have consistent photos. Two of these have no photos at all.
Without further ado, the State of the Collection, August 2007, with photos of nearly all the watches in a consistent format.
11 Speedmasters (all the Speedies are in the photo below)
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1972 Omega Speedmaster Mark II 145.014 manual, SS/SS, black racing dial/chrono (861)
1973 Omega Speedmaster 125 ST 378.0801 auto,SS/SS, black/Jubilee watch chronograph/chronometer (1041)
1974 Omega Speedsonic tuning fork, SS/SS, mirror gray/tuning fork chrono (1255)
1985 Omega Speedmaster Mark V ST 376.0806 auto, SS/SS, black/Teutonic (1045)
1986 Omega Speedmaster Teutonic Moon ST 345.081 manual, TT 18kYG/TT 18kYG brushed, white/moonphase (866)
1998 Omega Speedmaster Professional 1957 Replica ST 345.0222/3594.50.00 manual; SS/SS; black face/chronograph (1861)
2000 Omega Speedmaster Professional X-33 3290.50.00 quartz, TT/TT, Analog&LCD/multifunction (1666)
2001 Omega Speedmaster Rattrapante ST 377.320/3540.30 auto, SS/SS, silver/X-33 case (3600)
2003 Omega Speedmaster Professional 3578.51.00 manual, SS/SS, Snoopy dial/caseback (1861)
2004 Omega Speedmaster Triple Date 3523.30 auto, SS/SS, silver/triple date-chronograph-24hr (1151)
2007 Omega Speedmaster 50th Anniversary Patch 311.30.42.30.01.001 manual, SS/SS, black w/patch/chronograph (1861)
Vintage Speedy Mark II
1970s big boys – mechanical Speedy 125 and tuning fork Speedsonic
1980s Teutonics
Speedy Pro variations, although only one SAYS "Pro": 1957 Replica, Snoopy and 50th Anniversary
Same case style, one mechanical sophistication (Rattrapante), one electronic wizardry (X-33); and the one that started it off, the triple date
8 Seamasters (all the Seamasters pictured below)
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1952 Omega Seamaster Calendar CO 2627 auto,14kGP/SS, white face/date @ 6 (353)
1953 Omega Seamaster Deluxe OT 14324 auto, 18kYG/leather, hooded lugs/chronometer (352)
1959 Omega Seamaster 9068 auto, 14k YG/leather, white applied indices/chronometer (505)
1968 Omega Seamaster WG Day Date BC 168.0023 auto, 18kWG/18kWG, silver/chronometer expansion bracelet (751)
1970 Omega Seamaster Memomatic ST 166.0072 auto, SS/leather, gray-black/minute alarm date (980)
1988 Omega Seamaster Polaris 1/100th 382.1231/2493 quartz, 18kYGSS/18kYGSS, black/chronograph-date (1670)
1999 Omega Seamaster Professional Chrono-Diver 2296.80.00 auto,TT RG/TT RG, blue wave/date-double chrono (1164)
2001 Omega Seamaster Professional Chrono-Diver 2298.80.00; TI 378.0504.400 auto,TT/TT, blue wave/date-double chrono (1164)
Vintage 1950s elegance: Calendar, Deluxe, 1959
1960s white gold chronometer class/1970s mechanical alarm Memomatic/1980s quartz chronograph with analog 1/100th second display
His & her ChronoDivers
5 Constellations (one is at the spa), all vintage but one
The group shot on the original box for the 1956 Deluxe (missing one)
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1956 Omega Constellation De Luxe OT 2799 auto, 18kYG/18kYG mesh, mirrored gold/sterling box (354)
1958 Omega Constellation Grand Luxe OT 2930 auto, 18kYG/18kYG, mirrored stepped gold/brickworks (505)
1961 Omega Constellation CK 14393 auto, SS/SS grains of rice, black pie pan/date (561)
1969 Omega Constellation auto, 18kYG/leather, gold face/coin edge bezel half hooded (564)[not pictured above]
2002 Omega Constellation ladies auto, SS diam. bezel/SS, silvered w /diam. 50th anniversary (2520)
The Deluxe and Grande Luxe
Two redialed versions, 1961 and 1969
And a modern ladies
5 Devilles, including a Seamaster De Ville, all present below
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1963 Omega Deville 561.007 auto, 18kYG/leather white/square (671)
1964 Omega Seamaster De Ville KL 6610 auto, 14kYG/leather, white crosshair/date (560)
1970 Omega De Ville Ladymatic BA 751.0253 auto, 18kYG/18kYG textured, gold face (661)
1998 Omega De Ville Prestige Tonneau 4653.31 auto, 18kYG/leather, white sunburst/jump hour (1221)
2006 Omega De Ville coaxial 4531.31.00 auto, SS/SS silvered white/brickworks chronometer (2500)
Ladies first, both automatics
1960s and Modern simple classic Omega design
1998 rather funky jump hour -- 10:08 just doesn't look the same does it?
That unusual watch is a perfect segue to what I call Omega's Specialties: limited production and rarely seen watches,
9 examples, seven pictured below
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1981 Omega Equinoxe quartz, SS/SS, reversible chronograph/timer analog/digital (1655)
1981 Omega La Magique quartz, 18kYG/leather brown/mystery dial (1357)
1983 Omega Phase de Lune Or BA 156.0002 auto, 18kYG/leather, engraved silvered/ moonphase triple date (715)
1984 Omega Louis Brandt GMT auto, 18kYG/leather, GMT limited edition (717)[not pictured above]
1984 Omega Louis Brandt manual, 18kYG/leather, gilded open/7 diamond crown (626)
1991 Omega Louis Brandt II chronograph auto, 18kYG/leather, white Clous de Paris guilloche/decorated mvmt (1158)
1991 Omega Louis Brandt II Date 5311.30 auto, 18kYG/leather, white guilloche/21k rotor (1119)[not pictured above]
1991 Omega Louis Brandt II Perpetual 175.0200 auto, 18kYG/black leather, white Clous de Paris guilloche/decorated mvmt (1116)
2002 Omega Museum 1951 Cosmic auto, 18kRG/leather, blue/triple date-moonphase (2601)
Omega issued the first Louis Brandt Collection I in 1984, in editions of less than 500. The Phase de Lune Or in 1983 pre-dated the collection and shared the base movement with several of the Louis Brandt watches, and is followed by a manual wind open gilded face and the GMT
The Louis Brandt Collection II followed in 1991, with a date, chronograph and perpetual calendar. We have one of each (date not pictured)
In the early 1980s, Omega showed its wizardry with quartz.
The transparent center and 2.6mm thinness of La Magique
The Equinoxe
And the Museum Collection was a new addition for the new Millenium
7 vintage manual wind watches, 4 pictured below
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1924 Omega ladies OJ 716 AI manual, 14kYG/green lizard, gold aged (23.7 T2)
1934 Omega Cushion manual, nickle/leather, silver/subsecond (26.5 SOB T1)[not pictured above]
1934 Omega Tank CK 891 AL manual, SS/leather, white face/subsecond (20F)
1943 Omega 30 T2 CK 2902 manual, YGP14k/black leather, black redial/subsecond (30 T2)
1944 Omega manual; 18kYG/twistoflex; gold/subsecond (28)[not pictured above]
1947 Omega Cosmic Moonphase CO 2486 manual, 14kRGP/leather, silvered redial/1st year (27 DL PC)[not pictured above]
1952 Omega hybrid N 6555 manual, 14kYG/leather, black face/subsecond (302)
Two pre-WWII watches, in date order (No photo of 1934 Cushion Shape)
Two WWII-era watches
Two post-war watches, the Cosmic, Omega's first date watch and a very flat manual
3 early automatics
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1947 Omega hybrid F 6212 bumper auto, 14kYGF/leather, Art Deco white/subsecond (28.1 RA PC)
1951 Omega bumper auto, 14kYG/leather, black face/sweep second (351)
1957 Omega Ladymatic 2940 auto, SS/SS, white/1st ladies rotor auto (455)
3 examples of Omega's finest early automatics, the chronometer bumper autos, pictured on the style box the Centenaries were delivered in
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1948 Omega Centenary OT 2500 auto 1, 18kYG/leather, gold face/Jubilee watch (30.10 RA PC AM JUB)
1948 Omega Centenary OT 2500 auto 2, 18kYG/leather, gold face/Jubilee watch (30.10 RA PC AM JUB)
1949 Omega Automatic Chronometre OT 2514 auto, 18kYG/leather, gold redial/gold indices index reg. (343)
2 other watches don't group up well
Year/make/collection/model/movement type, case/strap material; face color/feature (calibre)
1966 Omega Jewelry manual, 18kWG rectangular/18kWG, silver/backwinder 8 diamonds (690)
1972 Omega F300hz 198.0045 tuning fork, 14kYGP/leather gold-brown/day-date chronometer (1260)
A Geneve or perhaps Seamaster tuning fork (not marked)
And a Jewelry manual backwinder
11 Speedies
8 Seamasters
5 Connies
5 Devilles
9 Specialties
8 manual winds, including Jewelry
6 autos, including the bumper chronometers
1 tuning fork Geneve
53 total
Thanks to everyone on the forum
Three years of watch collecting: SOTC Omega
My dear wife, also known to post on as Watchwidow, occasionally and unintentionally impersonates me. She forgets to sign in as Watchwidow and posts as Sam JH. This has happened twice now that I can recall. One I don’t remember. One I won’t let her forget....
Thanks for taking the time to share with us your Omega collection
I think this might be the longest SOTC post I've ever seen on PuristS Cheers, Anthony
Someone going to ask, so why not me?
What's next? Wow, triple Wow, what a collection! You have to have good health just to wear them. Miki
What's next?
I still have a few things that I want, and a few to dispose of . . . and there are other brands . . .
I'm speechless, Sam, not only by your collection . . .
. . . but also by the relatively short period of time it took to amass. I have but one Omega, and I may buy one or three more - I'm very partial to vintage Connie chronometers, Flightmasters, and Railmasters - but my hat's off to you for tasteful self-ind...
Welcome home Sam !!
Hi Sam Great photo shoot! Your 1959 Omega Seamaster 9068 auto, 14k YG/leather, white applied indices/chronometer (505) , caught my eye. The case on that one looks to be a domestic variety. Will you confirm this ? Norman Morris ( Omega US Distributor ) wou...
1959 Seamaster Chronometer
This is the watch I bought from our "Everybody buys one watch from ____, but never buys another from" friend. It is a less than stellar refinished dial. The case number/reference number is 9068, which is consistent with a Norman Morris US origin. I still ...
Great story, meaning, emotions, here is My Story
A small story I would like to share. I am wearing right now a Constellation 1950’s Grand Luxe with out date a piece I enjoy so much as for the meaning first emotionaly and then because of the wonderfull work I have. Let me just tell you the story. This wa...