Omega Genève Seamaster ref. 166.0190 / 166.0211 cal. 1022 35mm Gold-Plated Day-Date Dress Watch from 1973
Ref. 166.0190 / 166.0211 · Calibre Omega 1022 · 35mm Gold-platedCondition — Sharp original unpolished case with original brown dial and applied markers, original crystal and crown
Provenance — Privately bought, as the whole collection was.
I sat with this one for a while before photographing it, because the dial does something gold-plated Genèves rarely manage: it shades from a warm bronze at the centre out to near-black at the edges, so the applied baton markers catch light differently depending on the angle you hold it. The day-date window at three sits flush and clean, "MAR 9" showing plainly against the dark surround. Case is unpolished, and I've left it that way; the lug edges are still sharp rather than rounded off, with the kind of soft brassing at the corners that comes from decades in a drawer rather than a buffing wheel. The caseback engraving is crisp, legible down to the fabrication marks. Inside, the cal. 1022 automatic winds and sets properly, rotor and bridges showing marks from use but no damage. This suits someone who wants a 1970s Omega dial that hasn't been refinished, on a case that hasn't been polished into a rounder version of itself.
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
