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Good Deal Invest in getting it serviced by omega and it will be a real gem

Merry Christmas all! Val.

So for $248 you get a stainless watch with a bracelet, a reliable movement (i will come to the QC later) known design, superlume, more than likely good water resitance (as i sad QC later) Saphire crystal. So make this with another logo like MK II add some QC and sell them on the open market for well over a grand My glass is half full

Rehaut wooky, bezelteeth not deep enough, same bad crystal than on SSD,bad crown etc... Not worse the money!

Precisely. Anyone with more money than brains can have a new Rolex in 30 minutes. If you want something like this it takes some looking and research and anticipation. And in my case a very generous late friend.

nice post Freddy, looks like one Redford has the stem pulled out

Yep, it hearkens back to the days when men were men...when we measured days by the stubble of our beard, and knew the time by the Sun...When women were women and no surprise packages from the hookers...When children were seen and not heard and showed respect (OK, enough. I just about choked on that one!)

like old whiskey and classic cars!

Thank you guys for the kind words and advice! I will try to post some better full frontal pics later on. For the dialI got a little crazy trying some stuff to age it.. I started by putting it in the oven for about 40 mins, checking on it every 3 minutes or so. It simply made the markers a bit darker then I sprayed it a few times with workable fixative to try to get a bit of texture. The fixative didnt really have the thick texture I was looking for so I bought some matte varnish spray. I sprayed a thick coat of matter varnish then as it was drying just placed some really really coarse sand paper on top of the dial (not moving it at all to sand) as a negative mold to create a 3d textured effect. After that coat dried I sanded the dust from a rusty nail onto the dial and spayed another coat of matter varnish on top of it. This sealed in small rust colored particles that added some discoloration to the dial. Finally i took a little bit of watercolor to the markers to make the color less consistent throughout. I think if I were to do it again I would probably do all the same steps with the exception of the oven. I feel like they may be a bit too dark in color for my taste. For the hands I started by scratching them up with a loupe and an exacto knife. I went as far as to remove a chunk of lume in the middle of the minute hand. After this I just dunked them for about a day in a mix of water, coffee, salt, rusty nails, mud, dirt, and brake fluid. Once I pulled them out I cleaned them up and added a touch of watercolor to make them a little more consistent with the markers. The look came out quite aged as there is a hint of green rusty patina in some areas. For the next one I am going to try to buy some lume and try to build up the puffy tritium marker look, but ive got to go in baby steps.