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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 170049, member: 25"]If the Omega is a lady's watch, the value will be far lower than a man's size example.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing is that only men collect or hoard old watches, and all they want is something that they can wear without going for full drag.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it is a man's watch, then it should do a couple of hundred dollars. The overspeed may be due to a magnetised hairspring, ask a watch repairer to de-gauss it and then put it on the timing machine. If you have a bulk tape eraser lying around you could try that to demagnetise it. A watch de-gausser will automatically lower the magnetic fields before switching off. For any other bulk demagnetiser, slowly move it a couple of feet away before switching off, for the same efffect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any competent repairer can clean such a watch, there is no need whatsover to be bled dry by the main dealers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 170049, member: 25"]If the Omega is a lady's watch, the value will be far lower than a man's size example. The thing is that only men collect or hoard old watches, and all they want is something that they can wear without going for full drag. If it is a man's watch, then it should do a couple of hundred dollars. The overspeed may be due to a magnetised hairspring, ask a watch repairer to de-gauss it and then put it on the timing machine. If you have a bulk tape eraser lying around you could try that to demagnetise it. A watch de-gausser will automatically lower the magnetic fields before switching off. For any other bulk demagnetiser, slowly move it a couple of feet away before switching off, for the same efffect. Any competent repairer can clean such a watch, there is no need whatsover to be bled dry by the main dealers.[/QUOTE]
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