Okay, your friend wins. Game, set, match. Mic drop.
Sorry you broke your watch, it's an unfortunate accident. You are going to have to swallow your pride, accept that your month old watch has to go to the service centre for repair and throw yourself on the mercy of Omega hoping that they will feel sorry for you and do the repairs free of charge, if you are really, really, really, lucky they might.
Just be grateful that it was only a watch, my friend took his 24 hour old BMW for a drive the day after collecting it, he parked up in a nice spot overlooking the River Thames in Oxfordshire, with the car silent my friend sat for a few moment talking to his wife and considering his lot in life and feeling very pleased with himself. As he took his foot off the brake the car burst back into life and because his foot was slightly depressing the the accelerator the car shot forward, through the chain link fence over the edge of the bank and down headfirst into the water.
After his car had been dragged out by a combination of the fire service, BMW rescue and a breakdown truck the car was taken to the dealers for a diagnosis of the damage. My friend had to pay just under £8,000 to put the car right, BMW offered him nothing as it was a self inflicted error, he forgot that he was in gear, didn't apply the parking brake and the cars auto cut-out to conserve fuel turned the engine off as though he was at the traffic lights, removing his foot off the brake restarted the engine and as his foot was resting on the go faster peddle the car assumed that the driver wanted to go so it accelerated.
You dropped your watch, it broke, it happens. Next time you take your watch off make sure it's a soft surface beneath you, hope you get it sorted okay.
FWIW, my son broke the screen on an iphone when he was 2 years old. He dropped the phone only about one foot, and onto carpet over a hardwood floor. But there was a small object on the rug, and the point load cracked the screen. Sure I cursed crapple because I had to pay to have the person's phone repaired, and why the heck did they assume the phones would ever only fall on nice flat, even surfaces? But that is because I am not a fan of their products, and not because I thought it was practical to design for that type of impact with a substantial increase in the already-high price. It was an unfortunate accident, and it had a repair bill resulting from it. It happens.
Sorry for your friend. But actually nowadays the car is designed with several these functions which could potentially prevent the occasion like this:
1. deep press the brake to activate the Autohold, for VW cars you may need to activate in the center console area. This could naturally self brake your car and when you press the gas pedal it will run for good without deactivation of autohold needed.
2. Always remember to use the hand brake/E-parking brake to hold the car when needed
3. For the automatic transmission/dual clutch these gearboxes, switch to P when standstill needed, then there will be a mechanical design which will lock your gear as well as your car.
The good thing is in the automotive industry we deliver the technology to make the driving more joyful and convenient, whilst the mechnical watch industry are more about design, heritage, mechanism a bit, but durability I believe is not the most urgent and important factor...
A simple phone call to an Omega AD or Boutique could have had you an answer in minutes, instead of waiting hours for a smart ass answer like this.
Happened to me with my Carrera 360, with sapphire case back,w fell on the bathroom tile floor but I was lucky as only the case was dented. If it had fallen at a different angle I could have been in your predicament.
Vintage watches are far more fragile and after a couple of frights I took a few habits to minimize risk.
One habit is to put your watch on and off only when you’re sitting comfortably at a desk or on a bed, or on a chair. Or to avoid doing it in a place where there’s no carpeting.
If you’re standing, it means you’re possibly on the go, thinking about something else or doing two things at the same time— and that’s when things slip out of your hands.
And if the watch falls from a standing height, a good trick is to try to catch and amortize the fall with your foot.
Sorry to hear about this accident mate. I hope there is no internal damage to the movement.
