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After my omega dropped down into pieces, my heart is broken

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Walrus Walrus
And I hate to say it but I’ve had plenty of automotive parts break under regular use. Mechanical parts break in ways that are “impossible” the rack of my car literally snapped in half with no rough riding or potholes. I have much more faith in my watch than my car when it comes to reliability

Sorry for your bad experience. Actually I have to commit the car industry type approval standard is too low, and most of the premium companies offer way higher internal standard to show their brand value. The product quality can differ quite a lot from different companies. Generally the car should run good with good care and regular maintenance for at least over 10/15 years no worry needed.

PS: If you are not picky about driving pleasure, Toyota is a reliable brand to trust. If you are a racing guy, BMW/Porsche will then be your ideal choice to choose.
 
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It would have gently floated to the deck of the moon and as it hit it would have been cushioned by the 10-20cm of moon dust. Sadly here on earth mother gravity is not so forgiving.....
That's so true. 😀
 
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JwRosenthal JwRosenthal
I have only dropped a watch twice in my life- the first time was my 17650 GMT, took it off to go through a magnetometer at work, grabbed it on the other side and it flew out of my hand and traveled a good 3-4 feet through the air and landed face down on a hard tile floor-ouch! Stopped dead- $550 repair.
The second was my Titus Supercompressor, as I went to put it on when I took it out of the box (hadn’t even had it 30 seconds)-on a Nato of course, fiddling with trying to get the strap through the little buckle-it slipped off my arm and face down on the kitchen floor. One of the hands came loose and wouldn’t track properly- had to have it serviced (which was due anyway as it was new to me and serviced history unknown).
I use bracelets or straps with deployant clasps-that minimizes the risk of dropping while fiddling with the clasp/buckle.
And agree - be very conscious of the surface you are over while putting it on or taking to off.

After this lessons learned, certainly I will take great care of the watch. As I am a casual guy which intially purchased this watch just for routine use didn't really consider to baby the watch too much. But life taught me a lesson and I am always a guy who wouldn't make the same mistake twice.
 
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Canuck Canuck
Exactly WHAT, pray tell, does all this blither have to do with your having smashed the crystal on your watch?

It won't. But I really will reconsider the next watch brand, as well as the back case material.
 
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It won't. But I really will reconsider the next watch brand, as well as the back case material.
G-Shock is great.
 
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A drop is a drop, you could drop it 20 times at the same height at the same place and not have a issue. It’s the way sometimes

PS NATOs are responsible for most nearly drops I have with watches. Last one I kicked it across the room before it hit the floor to gentle the blow from the drop on the floor. ( Funny as misses STANDY saw it all and thought WTF is he doing )

Been there done that. This should have like 100 likes already 😁

I also dropped a 1 month old Grey Side of the Moon about 3-4 feet to my tiled bathroom floor, and nothing happened to it other than changing from running +1 sec/day to +6 or 7 sec/day. It could have shattered, having a brittle ceramic case.

Took it to to my OB and explained what happened. They sent it to Omega who found nothing wrong. They regulated the watch and sent it back running great at no charge. I was expecting to get a bill for a couple of hundred bucks at the least. It continued to run great for the next 4 years until I traded it towards a Rolex earlier this year.

That was the last watch I dropped onto a hard floor, but twice I've dropped a watch that I was able to intercept with my foot, keeping it from hitting the floor. It's been several years, so I'm not sure my reflexes are up to the task anymore, so I always sit on my bed or stand in a carpeted area with no foreign bodies before I try to put on a watch.
 
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Exactly WHAT, pray tell, does all this blither have to do with your having smashed the crystal on your watch?

You put that much better than I was going to, thanks
 
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It won't. But I really will reconsider the next watch brand, as well as the back case material.

What on earth has the watch brand got to do with it, if you drop a mechanical watch from around waist height onto a hard floor there is a good possibility that you are going to cause some damage to the watch. Whether that damage is a shattered crystal or a movement knocked out of line, or a dent in the case, or something else will be determined by the angle that the watch hits the floor. In very rare occasions the watch may not be damaged at all.

It was an accident, you dropped the watch accidentally, you didn't intend to drop it, you didn't want to cause damage to your watch, it was an accident. Please stop blaming everything else for what has happened and accept that IT WAS AN ACCIDENT and move on.
 
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You seem to be a right clumsy fecker, dropping your phone, dropping your watch and now you will have to drop your trousers and pay Omega to repair the damage you and you alone have caused.

PS: where's the photo of this crack?
 
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You seem to be a right clumsy fecker, dropping your phone, dropping your watch and now you will have to drop your trousers and pay Omega to repair the damage you and you alone have caused.

PS: where's the photo of this crack?

Please..........No!
 
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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.


Weekly event with 8-10 meter tides where I live

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Weekly event with 8-10 meter tides where I live

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Getting a dropped Omega fixed is a bargain compared to that.
 
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Weekly event with 8-10 meter tides where I live

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Haha, brilliant. Only seen that once in the UK, and that was a stupid man leaving his car on the harbour slip as he couldn't get a parking spot, people told him that the tide was coming in but...........
 
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Haha, brilliant. Only seen that once in the UK, and that was a stupid man leaving his car on the harbour slip as he couldn't get a parking spot, people told him that the tide was coming in but...........
Do a search for photos of the Lindisfarne Causeway. Regular occurence there. wpid-article-1308566874270-0c9c4aab00000578-710572_636x440.jpg
 
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Weekly event with 8-10 meter tides where I live

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Obviously a problem with automotive engineers. They just designed to the level of everyone else. If they where built to higher quality water immersion would not damage them.
 
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Obviously a problem with automotive engineers. They just designed to the level of everyone else. If they where built to higher quality water immersion would not damage them.
 
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Do a search for photos of the Lindisfarne Causeway. Regular occurence there. wpid-article-1308566874270-0c9c4aab00000578-710572_636x440.jpg

Ah yes! Lindesfarne. We visited there in 2008. At low tide, you can walk about a mile to the castle. But at high tide, the castle is isolated.
 
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Gone through the entire thread and no pics of the damaged watch in sight... did I miss them?? 😕
 
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Gone through the entire thread and no pics of the damaged watch in sight... did I miss them?? 😕

Omega designers failed to include a built in camera that automatically uploads photos to OF...those idiot designers...
 
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