| | We now have extra copies of the Omega Red Book of case parts listings by case numbers. Order the Red Book and you will have the same information on case parts used by most of Omega's World Service Organization network of parts suppliers and retail repair service. Get the same information as I have on Bezels, Bracelets, Crowns, Crystals and many more case parts by case numbers. No need to wait for email replies to your case parts questions, again now it is possible to get a copy of the red book allowing you to look up your own part numbers.
Unfortunately, Omega has only been producing Red Books for about 30 years and Red Books have never had early Omega case number information. In the pre-industry crash years of the 70’s Omega had a lot of different agencies around the world that handled Omega in certain countries like the USA, where the Norman M. Morris Corporation was the official Omega Agents in charge of Omega inside the USA for many decades. Some Cases and Crowns were made right here in the USA and movements came from Switzerland. The final assembly of some watches were done inside the USA, to avoid high duty on finished watch charged by US customs back in the day when the USA still had a watch production industry.
When the watch industry crashed and the long recovery began the new Omega was a different company in many ways than before. It started producing Red Books however as done by all watch companies thru time did not include information on cases that they considered to be old and obsolete. So the Red Books do not contain information on thousands of Pre-1970 case numbers, while it does contain a few. In order to get parts for these older cases companies like Otto Frei www.ofrei.com have to use parts data distributed by Omega and their agents in the 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s to locate part numbers. However, these old data lists are now no longer available and do not give as much information as now found inside the Red Book on models produced in past 35 years or so. When we do not have the part number we put the order in by description like this:
case/mvt ring for case number 166.024 and hope that Omega can still provide us with such an item.
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