This great gold Omega Constellation was sent in by Jason for a service. The dial has been restored, but it’s been a professional job, and looks good!
The case back is in good condition, and nobody has polished the living daylight out of the Geneva Observatory, which is a good thing!
The date changer doesn’t work, and here is the reason why. The little spring that engages with the date wheel has come loose, and I order a new date change wheel.
All clean and ready for reassembly.
The new mainspring goes into the barrel after I have applied braking grease to the barrel wall.
The base movement is back together.
Now I turn my attention to the bottom plate.
The new date change wheel has arrived.
And all is working again. The calibre 564 also has a quick set date.
The case needs some cleaning as well, and I will give the crystal a polish.
The movement back together and cased.
Not too shabby.And we’re back in business. A rare gold Constellation that hasn’t been mucked with.
All Omega dials with applied markers have these grinding marks, at least the older ones. The markes are part of the production steps. If there’s glue in the grinding marks, it’s a tell sign that it’s refinished. This one looks original and in pretty good shape.
Hmmm – I’ve seen many without the grinding marks. I know TAG has them on their dials, but there are older Omegas out there without them.
Beautiful. Very pretty movement that often seems to give good performance even in a 40+ year old watch.
are they easy to work on Christian?
Nice work Christian. Can i ask what makes you think the dial is refinished?
On the back, you can see where the markers where taken off – there are grinding marks.
It looks good though – not sure I would be able to tell it wasn’t original.
It could be that the dial has been swapped from a service or replacement dial with silver markers?
I guess finding a good one is hard, finding one with correct markers are down to luck!
Then the original gold ones would need to moved over to the “new” dial. Hence it has been worked on, but is still original.
I have tried to spot any errors on this, but can no manage to see anything wrong!
That sounds like the most likely explanation.
The Constellation is a beatiful watch indeed. Nice work again Christian!
Thanks Christian
Good to know she will be running sweet for a few more years… just need to find a steel version of this watch, they seem rarer than the solid gold ones !