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Art, look more closely - "OR" is clearly visible in photos 2 and 3 near the centre hole. regards Erich

thank you for your kind words. erich

Hello all, I thought to start a separate thread about the SM Olympic dials in order not to clutter the thread about the Cortina Milano SM model. The easiest to find is the dial in Chinese lacquer with applied XVI in solid gold. It has very faint hashes printed in gold colour. This dial is found in y

The dial in the presented watch is most likely made of solid gold. I have one in rose gold - will show it in a separate thread about these dials You stated: "Note the original hexagonal crown. All original SM XVI were issued with this unique crown; I don't believe any other Omega variant utilizes it

I understand your disappointment... IMO the watch is too large, the proportions don´t feel right. Due to its size it does not sit comfortably on the wrist. 2 of the vintage Olympic watches you showed in the beginning of your thread have awfully wrongly restored dials. And both have wrong crowns. The

The crown is a wrong replacement. You can see it by the different colour, it looks like chromium plated and not steel. And it protudes too far. An original crown must sit flush to the case. These crowns are very hard to find as I experienced myself. I have a disco volante with cal 30 T2, same case d

I don´t want to rain on the parade but want o show how an original specimen should look.

It has a poorly reprinted dial

Nicolas, why don´t you go for the real thing, the thin arrow? Here is one of mine