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The KL series were indeed encased in the US. Should be a Ross case. Your KL6312 is a 10K gold filled case housing a calibre 560 movement
KL 6312s were sold in the US between 1965 - 67. These 560s with 17 jewel movements were imported to save money on Customs excise....anything above 17 jewels attracted a much higher duty.
Your model was one of only 3000 pieces that were produced for case numbers KL6068, KL6292, KL6312 and KL6610. This has been confirmed by JLM at Omega Museum. That is, 3000 pieces across the entire collection of these models.
It makes your watch quite rare as fewer numbers out of the 3000 were devoted to the plain auto model, the rest were Seamasters.
How do I know this? I have one, and also I'm about to post an essay on these case numbers on my site within the next ten days
I believe they are a sleeper collectible. Ive watched them over the past 12 months on on-line auctions and most are seriously undervalued.
Dragoon a friend into providing a pic - you have us all interested.
Cheers
desmond
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