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• Omega PO questions

  PO newbie here and could use the omega forum's collective wisdom.1. I've noticed that the caseback some of the PO 45's (orange bezel) has this circle-ish spot, to the right of the word "Ocean" - what is that? See picture for more clarification. 2. What does the red dot on the caseback signify?3. Should the standard steel bracelet that comes with the PO 45 (orange bezel) be marked as "951" or "952........

• And yet another new guy

  Hey guys pretty new here to this forum but I've lurked around and its cooler then some other watch sites I've been to. I never signed up with them. By way of introduction I started my watch interest almost 20 years ago. It started by taking apart an old mechanical wrist watch I found in a drawer at my parents'. IIRC it was called Hirsch on the dial. "nurse watch" I got it running and then snapped ........

• Yard Sale Find

  Stopped by an inside yard sale (HUH??) and found these two watches. Don't know if they're worth anything, but for $3.00 for both (!), I figured I had nothing to lose.One is a (What I presume to be) mens Bulova. The dial is damaged, but the blue hands are iintriguing. It runs fast, gaining about 4 minutes in an hour. I like the look of this watch.The other one is a ladies Gruen Precision and this o........

• Roy Scheider's Watch in The French Connection???

  I was watching my French Connection DVD and there is a not so great shot of Roy Scheider's watch and I was wondering if there was a way to deduce what it might be from what we can see of the style and the era the film was made. The movie was shot in 1971 and it could very well just be a Timex but I figured someone might actually recognize the watch from this crappy screen shot. My guess is that si........