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Ahh the legendary Spencer Klein. I’ve been meaning to send him my 63097290 for a proper service. Does he still have a long queue?
Oh man but with proper pressure test and gasket replacements it should go in the water and also this watch is tough and still serviceable—life is short, use it.
This Seamaster has been serviced and pressure tested for diving but the only thing that keeps me from taking it to water is the Bakelite insert where in most cases the seal is no longer keeping water from seeping thru the tritium. Tritium expands and will bleed out even crack the Bakelite. I’m considering getting a new bezel with a new insert from Omega just so I can use it while keeping the original safe. More on the Bakelite stuff, you’ll see lots of these references for sale and had shitty looking inserts. Most of them were caused by watchmakers who have no clue and dunked it in the ultrasonic.
I’ve always wanted that Seamaster you got there, but the one from Spectre. But I found it chunky and large on my wrist. Still a great looking watch to me.
You’ll occasionally find vintage true blue scuba dude from the 90’s or earlier. Some have spider dials (cracks), others faded. Some have the Soviet writing at the bottom and some have russia. The teal showed up around 5-6 yrs ago as far as I remember when I was looking for a blue one.
Who knows? Meranom might be making blue dials again.
Actually it’s the other way around, the true blue is the classic, the teal appeared later and seem to have replaced the blue.
All I know it’s a 420 case but not sure if you’re going to get the true blue as most of their “blue” is more teal.
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