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Bill Sohne
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Questions for the Village.... What is your favorite color and where did you find it ?

Hello everyone....

I have been having a phone conversation with a couple of the forum regulars over the last week or so.  One of the topics of conversation was Gold Omegas...

What color gold are you most attracted to ?   There is Yellow , White, Rose  and have even see Green on occasion ( not Omega ).  

Also does anyone happen to know what white gold formula was used by Omega case makers in the 1950s like on the white gold connies ?   Or how about in the 1960s with the C-shaped connies ?

As a collector you collect what you can find and before the use of the internet in finding watches...  A lonely Omega collector in the US would find a lot of yellow gold ( mostly 14k) and US made cases.
I personally prefer Swiss made cases , and when I was first collecting stayed away from gold case examples.   As I used to travel for work I was able to find " interesting" watches along the way.

But the internet really helped in opening the flood gates...

I do have a few Omega Pink gold watches (Swiss made cases)  some in 18k others in 14k.    One or two was found in the USA and a few in Italy !

   So where have you found some of your odd colored watches ?


One last thing that always amazes me that every gold watch I hold in my hands escaped the "melting pots" of the 70s and now !   Also what do you do if you have to scrap a watch?


Good hunting

Bill Sohne