help with a centenary

Hello everyone,

I have on my current wish list a Centenary. I've been researching watches on the Web and also reading some of Desmond's essays. Does anyone have a source that provides information on the relative scarcity of the cases (steel, pink gold, yellow gold)? I know there were two different models, one with a smaller case and one with a larger case. I've also seen some with the word Centenary and with leaves on the case back, and others that seem plain. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Pat

There are actually...

By: mac_omega : February 4th, 2011-05:45

Hi Pat, it is quite simple: all of them have been produced in 18K only The leafs on the back may be there but need not to be - both versions are authentic, whereas the leaf version is a bit rarer (AFAIK) 2 versions: 1) small version ref 2499 with 33mm onl...

Pictures to what Eric said

By: MSNWatch : February 4th, 2011-07:31

Here is one in 18k YG: And one in 18k PG with a pink gold (not yellow gold dial which many of these examples came in). Oh, it also has the cal. 333 movement. And this is the modern day re-edition of omega (museum collection) in pink/rose gold: I wear all ...

Acutally the 2499 case ref used a 28.10 RA PC JUB AM 17P!

By: Bill Sohne : February 4th, 2011-09:35

Hi Erich Actually the 2499 used caliber 28.10 RA PC JUB AM 17P ( 2000 movements produced)! aka caliber 341. I have seen later 2499 with the 343. Your right that the case is 34 mm in diameter but it is also thicker then the 2500 using the 331 !! I like the...

I just found the information on...

By: mac_omega : February 4th, 2011-10:05

Hi Bill, I just took the information about the 2499 from Omegas website... and I remember to have seen this ref. with both types of movements, obviously they used both as it was with ref 2500 - 2 different movements... I assume information is incomplete o...