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Have an old vintage Omega watch. It’s a thin dress watch in, I think, 18k.

I can’t find any visible notches so I have a hard time understanding how to open it up. It runs poorly and just want to get an idea of the shape of the movement and also ge...

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Have an old vintage Omega watch. It’s a thin dress watch in, I think, 18k.

I can’t find any visible notches so I have a hard time understanding how to open it up. It runs poorly and just want to get an idea of the shape of the movement and also get to know a little bit more about it since it has been passed on to me by my grandfather.

After some trial and error I finally managed to open the front with a thin razor blade in the only thing that sort of looked as a thin thin line on the…

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