Restoration of vintage mens watch omega cal.268 step by step
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2023
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The Constellation family has been around for 66 years and is currently one of Omega’s oldest collections. What started out as a chronometer for men in 1952 has undergone countless aesthetic transformations, from the pie-pan dials of the 1950s to the ultra-thin quartz watches of the 1970s leading to the consolidation of the collection in 1982 with the Constellation Manhattan and its hallmark claws. Today many Constellation models are equipped with Master Chronometer movements respecting the original vocation of this family to combine luxury and precision. Let’s take a look at how the Constellation got its star power and its claws.
celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1948, Omega released the Centenary, its first limited-edition chronometer-certified wristwatch with an automatic movement. Given the positive reaction to this unrivalled combination of precision and practicality, Omega decided the time was ripe for a collection of automatic wristwatches with chronometry status.
1952, Omega unveiled the series-produced Constellation, a family of watches originally destined for men fitted with calibre 354. Two salient features distinguished the first members of the Constellation family: a star and the name of the watch above the 6 o’clock marker and a sealed caseback with a medallion featuring the Observatory of Geneva crowned by a constellation of eight stars. The image of the observatory was designed to evoke Omega’s exploits in chronometry and its world precision records set in 1933 and 1936 at Kew-Teddington
The first models were fitted with calibres 351, 352, and 354 with bumper rotors and replaced four years later by calibres 500, 501, 505 and subsequently, in 1966 with calibre 561 for the date model, and eventually calibre 564. The early automatic bumper movements got their name from the slight thud the owner could perceive when the rotor hit a spring and bumped back. Unlike modern automatics that perform a full 360-degree spin, the rotor of these bumper movements moved back and forth at roughly 120 degrees ‘bumping off’ a pair of springs on the opposite sides of the watch…an effective way of accumulating kinetic energy invented by English watchmaker John Harwood in 1923.
PIE-PAN DIALS
An unusual feature of many Constellation watches in the 1950s and 1960s was the domed dial, colloquially referred to as a pie-pan dial. With its raised central area and sloping peripheral chapter ring for the hour markers, the dial looked just like an upside-down pie-pan investing the watch with depth and originality. Described as a ’12-sided’ dial, the pie-pan models are hotly contested among vintage watch collectors and inspired the dial of the current Globemaster. Available in steel and luxurious gold models, the case shape remained round but the lugs, hour markers and bracelets varied extensively.
FLAT DIALS, INTEGRATED BRACELETS AND CASES
By the mid-1960s, the pie-pan dial slowly gave way to flat dials and more interesting shapes and sizes for the case. In fact, the first integrated bracelet/case made its debut in 1969. These streamlined watches, presented in both his and her format, were touted as the “first watches in the world to be equipped with bracelets truly integrated with the case… a system invented in 1964 by Pierre Moinat” and protected by a patent, with the Reference BA 768.0803 as ladies’ watch and BA 368.0847 as gents’ model below
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Really enjoyable to watch your video , vintage Omega are great watches
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Мessed up by an hour at the end :) Good as always! It's a pleasure to watch!
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No gasket? The train seemed under some friction. Always good to check for backlash without pivots oiled. If something is causing friction, oil will not solve. Great video capture! Love to watch.
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Great video! One question about the very end. Do you simply snap back the crystal with hand or you need a crystal press?
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used presses, you can remove them with your fingers, but only use a press to install them correctly
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Omega Independant Watchmaker, do you offer restored or vintage watches?
I run a watchmaking workshop, I do a lot of things with vintage watches. the question is what do you need? mechanics? we do everything
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@@Karol235 I want to know if you offer vintage watches for sale that perhaps you have restored or repaired.
I have a 70's omega that had the winding stem fall out onto the floor. It was working good till then. Should I find the missing winding stem or can I buy one. I'm thinking the 70's omega are not good watches. 562 are my favorite. From 60's, have about six of them. Gold plated got earlier omegas, 268 and a solid gold one from the 40's.
Hello, if you can't find the old original part, you can buy a new one. old omegas are worth saving
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Did you check it on timegrapher?
Always
@@Karol235 I didn’t see it. I’d love to see how you adjust beat error
Great Channel! Get a manicure.
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