Watches to wear with your flight jackets...

[Pilot]

Very nice GMT! congrats!

 

[PADDY_M]

 

[ties70]

 

[MikeyB-17]

Oh bog off the pair of you!
I don't half miss my Speedmaster.

 

[ties70]

Oh bog off the pair of you!
I don't half miss my Speedmaster.

MikeyB,

The watch is from '68, so it's "pre-moon". Guy in the Omega store got glowing eyes when I brought the watch in: "They made all markers in Radium back then!!! Never ever change the dial!!!"

 

[B-Man2]

Very Nice Ties!
Is there a way to tell the year of the watch?
Does anyone have an idea of their value on today’s market ?

 

[ties70]

Burt,

I think I have a PDF file somewhere... A collector describes the different serial #, dial designs and hardware combinations... Helps a lot to narrow down the manufacturing date...

Best regards,

Ties

 

[MikeyB-17]

MikeyB,

The watch is from '68, so it's "pre-moon". Guy in the Omega store got glowing eyes when I brought the watch in: "They made all markers in Radium back then!!! Never ever change the dial!!!"

Enough! Enough!

 

[Pilot]

Love the “Speedy...”.
Easy to ID a pre-moon..just a few little specials compared to later models.
1)the dot on the 70 and 90 on the bezel must be in diagonal.
2)the two “T” on “T SWISS MADE T ” located in a precise space an stop at the indexes/ markers.
3)the È from TACHIMÈTRE...
plus a few little other things ( hands, back, crown, movement etc) ...but basically these are the points for an original unmessed pre-moon.

 

[B-Man2]

Thanks guys.. much appreciated ...
( Sorry Mikey )

 

[Saint-ex]

I'm also a Speedy lover.

Mine is a fake vintage. It's a 2017 First Omega In Space edition with a real vintage 1125 bracelet.

 

[ties70]

Sharing my life with Mrs Ties started exactly today, only 20 years ago....I thought, I should wear my "wedding watch" to celebrate this a little bit....

It's a Davosa Insight, nothing special really, but the back is engraved with my wife's name and the wedding date....it was actually her suggestion to get me a watch instead of a classic wedding ring because she didn't like rings on my fat stubby fingers...Lucky me!

Oh, and I got it from the flea market, so it fitted the "something old, something new, something borrowed...." tradition quite perfectly.

Ties

 

[ausreenactor]

@Clark J , I love this white Datejust. I think my next could be a white Oyster Perpetual.

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It's a kind of pilot watch...

Never got the appeal of these? The bezel colours put me right off...

 

[MikeyB-17]

Nah, it's a classic. Probably the only Rolex I'd have.

 

[Saint-ex]

@ausreenactor, it's just THE GMT. And this 16750 is quite discrete compare to the new one.

 

[Pilot]

@ausreenactor, it's just THE GMT. And this 16750 is quite discrete compare to the new one.

These „Pepsi“ GMT nowadays fetch the equivalent amount of approx. 10-12 GoodWear new, made on order A-2 jackets...

 

[Saint-ex]

Touché.
But I prefer to keep it.

 

[ausreenactor]

LOVE the Omegas though!!

 

[Pilot]

A pre-Moon in good all original condition also fetches the equivalent amount of 8-10 made on order GoodWear A-2’s

 

[Officer Dibley]

Just bought this Tudor Oyster from 1948.