Fake or Real
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Sooo what is it supposed to mean?
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Normally we get to know each other. Maybe you buy us a beer…it was a joke. Welcome to WUS.
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Oh ahahah, not familiar to y’all’s community
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Haven’t yet
Some would call it Frankenstein, I'd call it piece unique.
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It is real. It is late 1970's/early 1980's Constellation with the 1333 movement in it. The movement is chronometer spec with 13 jewels.
It is an interesting movement. you pull the crown out to set the hour hand and date(turning the hour hand 24 hours changes the date). You set the minutes by pushing the recessed button at the 2 o'clock position in and holding it for 5 seconds, then releasing the button and then quickly pushing the button in and holding it until the hand reaches the minute you wanted.
The idea behind this is that the watch was very accurate and once you set the time, you only would need to change the hour (for DST or a different time zone) and the date. You never had to touch the minutes unless the battery died.
It is an interesting movement. you pull the crown out to set the hour hand and date(turning the hour hand 24 hours changes the date). You set the minutes by pushing the recessed button at the 2 o'clock position in and holding it for 5 seconds, then releasing the button and then quickly pushing the button in and holding it until the hand reaches the minute you wanted.
The idea behind this is that the watch was very accurate and once you set the time, you only would need to change the hour (for DST or a different time zone) and the date. You never had to touch the minutes unless the battery died.
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the late 70's and early 80's was a difficult time for the Swiss watch industry, they were being hit with cheap watches from all kinds of places, if you don't know the history of the quartz movement you should look it up as it is quite interesting and involved 5 big players in the Swiss industry
here is another example of the unusual cases from that time
imagine you are at a board meeting and someone suggests throwing "stuff" at the wall to see what sticks
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here is another example of the unusual cases from that time
imagine you are at a board meeting and someone suggests throwing "stuff" at the wall to see what sticks
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It’s interesting how couple of people before you called it fake 100%
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It’s quite a unique system as stated to use the quartz time setting I have a 1970s Seamaster with the same system but the movement is a 1342 and when I got a battery change the guy doing it had no idea how to change the minute hand on mine until I explained it to him
not really a system people are going to fake .. unless I am wrong ?
there are several versions of the watch you have posted here is a pic of another
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not really a system people are going to fake .. unless I am wrong ?
there are several versions of the watch you have posted here is a pic of another
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there are plenty of experts without data or evidence
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Not really, did my reaearch, found many watches with this back and omega logo inside
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Yep, that’s exactly what I requested from the seller
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