Omega Dress Three-hand 1940s
Ref. 2374 · Calibre Omega 344Condition — Lightly polished steel case, heavily marked dial with age spotting, original hands
Provenance — Privately bought and privately sold, the way the whole collection runs.
What draws me to this one is the dial itself — that mottled, silvery-grey surface has gone patchy with age, darker toward the centre, with the blued steel hands and printed Arabic numerals still legible against it. The case is a clean, rounded stainless profile with a sharp bezel edge and a small round crown, and I can see it has never been through a heavy polish; the lines at the lugs are still crisp. Turning it over, the Omega signature and 17-jewel caliber 344 are stamped clearly into the rose-toned plate, with the balance and regulator visible and unmolested. There's light scuffing on the caseback and some tarnish inside it, consistent with decades of handling rather than restoration. It suits a buyer who wants a manual-wind Omega from the 1940s in its original, unfussed state, dial character and all, rather than one dressed up for the case.
Buying from a stranger, in short. Every fault I know of is in the listing, and if you find one I missed, the return stands. Take the watch to a watchmaker of your choosing before you pay — I have never once objected. Fourteen days to send it back, for any reason at all.
Privatverkauf. Everything described above — case, dial, hands, lume, rate and service history — is agreed condition for this watch and I stand behind all of it. Beyond that, the watch is sold excluding liability for material defects, as is normal between private individuals for a vintage mechanical object of this age. That exclusion does not cover anything I have misdescribed or failed to disclose, and never covers injury or intent.
Fourteen days to return it for any reason — my own promise, not a statutory withdrawal right. Terms · How I describe condition
