Here's a possibility about why it could be considered fake, following BNorth's assessment. My uncle owned a Rolex given to him from his uncle. My great uncle was a surveyor with the Corps of Engineers, and made landing strips all over the world. The watch had been introduced to extreme humidity and sweat, and the guts of the watch gummed up, and even the watch face shows signs of heavy use. It could be a similar story with your watch, and if a previous owner still wanted it to work, it's possible he had a watch repairman replace pieces and that those pieces were generic rather than specific to Omega. I think it was about 15 years ago that Rolex started to restrict the ability for outside firms to work on their watches. So using whatever was available many decades ago is not that far out of the ordinary.
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