Lemania redial?

biennois
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Stumbled upon this Lemania. Description says “321” but I assume this is in reference to the Omega calibre 321. It does seem to have a CH 27 inside but unbranded from what I can see. I haven’t found a similar watch and the contour of the subdials look unusual. Appreciate any insights or opinions on this specimen. Thanks!

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Vitezi
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Hello @biennois and welcome to the forum. That looks like an early Lemania CH27-C12 movement, and the dial and handset look OK to me based on those pictures. What do you mean by "the contour of the subdials look unusual" ? Do you have any better (close up, well-lit, sharply-focused) pictures?
 
biennois
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Hi @Vitezi. Thanks for your quick reply. I’m not sure how to describe it, I mean most chronos from that time period seem to have just a simple
tick line for each second/minute/hour mark in the subdials (sometimes with elongated marks for 3/6/9 in the minute subdial). Here it is lines within a ring for the minute and running second sub dial.

But then this one here has the same subdial style, also with differing hand between the running second and minutes subs, although in a bi-compax layout only (https://www.gros-delettrez.com/lot/86437/7804755?)

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jsflog
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Very early movement number (1650) for that movement, for me dial looks OK
 
sweets
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I would suggest that it all looks pretty good, given the available picture quality (but better would allow a more accurate assessment)
Chronograph dial reprinting is not as good as it should be, and usually nothing like as good as the original.
Quite often a load of different mistakes are made, because re-printers cannot always be bothered to make up a perfect and unique cliche to print a single dial at a high quality (bearing in mind that there are many many different designs out there, and the chances that they will be asked to print another identical one is minimal)

As a result re-printed dials often end up with inappropriate (or inconsistent) sub-dial fonts or styles, sub-dials mis-placed in the recesses, sub-dial numerals with missing ends, no serifs (if a serif font is used), or tails with wonky angles.
In the sense that all your fonts are a good match (the only difference I can see is the style of 3 in the 12 hr subdial, but that is normal) and that stylistically they also match (with all sub-dial and main second scales inside railtracks except the 12-hr, which is always different), it would seem that this is an original and consistent design. The spaces to the edge of the recesses is also excellent and consistent.
What looks very like an original crown, and the correct lozenge or diamond hands for this luminous dial also lends weight to the idea that this is an original watch (and a nice one too).
 
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