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You watch is a calibre 540 handwind dress watch. Quite uncommon as only 8000 of these movements were made and used over a range of models. The movement appears in good condition as there are no rust spots or corrosion that I can see.

Your case number appears to be 3981 and the sixteen million serial number indicates that the movement was produced in around 1958. There are also watchmakers marks on the inner case back indicating service at some stage of its life.

There is also OXG stamped on the movement which indicates that it was produced for the US market. It is however a fully swiss made watch, indicated by the key stamp with a 1 inside the case which tells us that the case was made by Ed. Wenger SA, a known supplier of precious metal cases to Omega, based in Geneva. It was imported into US by Omega's North America agent Norman Morris Corp.

The bracelet is beautifully made and may have been attached to the watch either at or after point of sale. If the watch has an Omega symbol on the clasp and/or an Omega triangle stamp (and I cant quite see enough of the clasp to tell) then its a factory bracelet. If not, then its more than likely an addition.

Never-the-less it is a fine dress watch from the late 1950s with a good quality movement.

You could probably get an extract from archives from Omega at a cost of 55 CH. Check out the official website and you will find an email for 'customer service'.

Regards

desmond

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Hello Folks

: I inherited an Omega watch. The watch at the time it was made was
: claimed to be the thinnest watch made.

: It is made of 18k solid white gold and the watch is as one piece.
: That is to say, the watch band is welded to the watch as it was
: always meant to be one piece.

: I have looked everywhere to find out details about the watch. It
: was gifted to my father about 35 years ago.

: I have no idea of its worth. It does of course need servicing and
: cleaning as it has been sitting for about 30 years.

: It looks to me to be in good shape as my father always took good
: care of it.

: Any help in finding info and value information would be greatly
: appreciated.

: I do have some photos on photobucket. The photos include the
: insides and the underside of the back, giving all the ID numbers
: both on the watch and the back.

: When I go to post this message along with the photo link it comes
: back with a message saying, sorry we do not accept files in mpg,
: tiff, gif, jpeg, etc.

: These photos are in Jpeg. What in the world else would they want
: and why do they not say which file type they do accept? These
: are all in jpeg I believe.

: Anyway, here is the link to my photo bucket. Perhaps you can get in
: by copy and pasting this URL into the address bar of a blank
: page.

: http://s328.photobucket.com/albums/l327/hdlcx2/Omega
: %20Watch/Omega%20Watch%20Photos/?action=view¤t=DSCN0047000000047.jpg&#!oZZ1QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs328.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fl327%2Fhdlcx2%2FOmega%2520Watch%2FOmega%2520Watch%2520Photos%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3DDSCN0036000000036.jpg%26

: Please have a look in the file named Omega watch. There are 9
: photos total. On the photos with information written on paper,
: it would be good to copy the image and paste it into a Photo
: Viewer so as to be able to enlarge it to your readable size if
: you are unable to do so in Photobucket.

: Thank you

: Will