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gobofraggle
June 17th, 2009, 06:45
I've noticed on a couple of vintage ladies Omegas that the "A" in OMEGA seems to have a pointed top. Is this a sure indicator of a bad redial, or did some Omega ladies watches, like this Ladymatic, have the pointed "A"?

Also, on this one, there's no "T Swiss Made T", even though there appears to be lume on the hands and a few of the hour markers...

May contain nuts
June 17th, 2009, 21:03
Hi,

The T's either side of the swiss made indicate that tritium was used as the lume. As its radio-active, its use was stopped some time ago and alternative products are now in use, hence more recent watches don't have the T's on the dials.

I've seen threads before about this but from memory, the change to super luminova was about 1992 but may be wrong.