Omega Calatrava Dress Watch, 1940s
Calibre Omega 30T2Condition — Unpolished gold-plated case with light surface wear, original black dial and hands
Provenance — Acquired privately; no dealer, no paperwork.
What pulls me back to this dial is the depth of the black lacquer under the glass — it shifts between charcoal and near-brown depending on the angle, with the gilt Arabic numerals and recessed subsidiary seconds still crisp against it. The gold-tone hands and applied Omega signature have kept their colour, and the case, gold-plated rather than solid, shows wear I'd expect on a piece this age: thinning at the lug edges where the plating has gone through to a paler metal, visible once tilted into the light. It runs on the Omega 30T2, a manual-wind caliber Omega used widely through the 1940s in dress watches of this size, and the caseback carries a legible serial along with its gold-plating marks. I haven't had the back off, so I can't speak to the movement's condition beyond what's stamped there. This suits someone who wants a modest, well-proportioned dress watch to wear, not shelve.
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
