Omega Railmaster - 1963

The Omega Railmaster may just be the coolest watch from a major manufacture that you've never heard of.  Designed as an anti-magnetic tool watch from engineers, it is very much the Omega counterpart to much more commonly known Rolex Milgauss or IWC Ingenieur.  Originally released in 1957, the Railmaster initially featured a manually winding movement, but later moved into automatics.  The example we have featured here is an early example from 1963, featuring the Calibre 286 manual winding unit. Although we typically stray from "overhauled" vintage watches, a pass can be given to those with restorations performed (sympathetically) by their original manufacturer.  Such is the case with this piece, which after receiving some nasty water damage at some point in the past, was treated to a full restoration to the internals by Omega itself.  The prior owner of this piece was careful to specify that all original parts that could be kept should be kept, as is outlined on the do