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2500c - no service in 16 years

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This isn’t a rare, survivor classic car 50 years down the line though - this is a mass produced and incredibly common modern omega dive watch.

It’s perhaps the NOS equivalent of a 2007 VW Golf.

And even if it were a GTI or an R, the people willing to consider it “special” today because no one drove it are fairy few and far between.
Maybe a Golf GTI
I paid a little extra, 10% to 15%, for my safe queen because it was flawless. Most flawless watches command some premium vs. their daily wearer versions.
 
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Maybe a Golf GTI
I paid a little extra, 10% to 15%, for my safe queen because it was flawless. Most flawless watches command some premium vs. their daily wearer versions.

And then you wear it…

Or even worse, you don’t.
 
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I'm looking at buying what appears to be a NOS Planet Ocean from 2007. I assume it has the 2500c movement based on the date wheel font.

Timegrapher shows -1spd and 308 amplitude with 0.3 beat rate error. Seems like it's running very well? Would you try to negotiate servicing?

Date wheels can also be changed and I don't believe that number font is a guarantee of it being a 2500a,b or c - but happy to stand to be corrected. I feel the same way about red dots, meaningless to me.
 
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Date wheels can also be changed and I don't believe that number font is a guarantee of it being a 2500a,b or c - but happy to stand to be corrected. I feel the same way about red dots, meaningless to me.
There is no real mystery there. If it is from 2007 it will have C spec. A or B was never fitted to the PO and the triple layer D spec didn't come along until nearer 2011 or thereabouts. You can't convert a 2500C to D (as was suggested by Bruce above) so unless the entire movement has been changed out, it's a C.
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There is no real mystery there. If it is from 2007 it will have C spec. A or B was never fitted to the PO and the triple layer D spec didn't come along until nearer 2011 or thereabouts. You can't convert C to D (as was suggested by Bruce above) so unless the entire movement has been changed out, it's a C.

Correct indeed. "A or B was never fitted to the PO and D didn't come along until nearer 2011..." Thanks for clarifying.

I guess I am more on target in stating that such a cautionary tale as to date wheels as an indicator of movement type can be more aligned to the Seamaster 300M Co-Axial 2220.80, et al where the date wheel can be changed to make any version look like a D, so therefor it can't be a reliable indicator. But yes, Padders, the best way to tell is to look at the movement.

Also, and heading off the OPs track, but I believe the 1st and the 11th days have a serif font on the C date wheel; so you can't just say it's a D spec while all the other dates including a "1" are sans serif??
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There is no real mystery there. If it is from 2007 it will have C spec. A or B was never fitted to the PO and the triple layer D spec didn't come along until nearer 2011 or thereabouts. You can't convert a 2500C to D (as was suggested by Bruce above) so unless the entire movement has been changed out, it's a C.
I thought I read a post from Archer that the C to d spec conversion was a kit that could be bought from Omega. It had several parts.
Opps, that was for the 3313, so it stays "C".
 
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I have the PO2500C since 2005. I took it for service in 2016, despite being still accurate within COSC.
They gave me a bunch of parts back, including the escape wheel which was well worn on the teeth and the gasket in poor shape. Even if it's been sitting in a safe, I would take it for service, oils have dried up.
 
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