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Am I Crazy? SMP 300 Question

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Hey all. First time poster and first time Omega owner. I recently went to an Omega Boutique and got a new SMP 300 white dial with the bracelet.

About a week after taking it home and staring at it over and over, I noticed what I think is a misalignment between the raised lume indeces and the little lines on the outside of the dial face ( not the bezel, that seems ok ).

Can you guys look at this picture and tell me if I'm crazy? The 6 o clock small box is a little too far to the left and the 9 o clock box is a little too low when compared to the -

When you turn it and view from slight different angles but head on the 6 o clock looks weird.
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Thanks in advance.
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Looks off to me (6 o clock) but honestly, I know I would never have noticed this - and I definitely don't want to look at any of mine now. Hard to tell in photos because of the angles but if you notice it in real life then I guess so.
 
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Just think about the conversation you’d have with the service centre and the look they’d give you… this is not a real problem. Let it rest.
 
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I see it a bit with the 6 o'clock marker, assuming the picture was taken with no angle.
 
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I see it a bit with the 6 o'clock marker, assuming the picture was taken with no angle.
If I angle it, it makes the 6 o clock look perfect. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. I've looked at stock photos and YouTube videos of others with this watch and none look like mine. Yes it's minor and yes it can be overlooked.

I don't really care what customer service thinks. For a watch this price, I don't expect Seiko quality ( got a seiko spd51 that has horrible misalignment like this ). I'm sure warranty will fix, but just leaves a poor taste in my mouth with the first Omega.

Thought they had elite attention to detail and a strong QA process. Guess not... I'm very surprised by this.
 
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I don't expect Seiko quality ( got a seiko spd51 that has horrible misalignment like this ). I'm sure warranty will fix, but just leaves a poor taste in my mouth with the first Omega.

Thought they had elite attention to detail and a strong QA process. Guess not... I'm very surprised
If it’s bothering you, take it to Omega and make your case. I personally don’t think it’s a problem. There’s tolerance in manufacturing and this stuff happens all the time in entry level luxury watches. For your expectations you need to level up a few tiers to Patek, Lange, etc.
 
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It seems worse in the first picture, I can hardly see it in the second. A combination of parallax and the the shadows around the markers?

Welcome to the club @BlackHawk31 we are all crazy here,

Beautiful watch!
 
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This is one of the things I checked - every single date - among many other things when I bought my green Seamaster to ensure it was acceptable to me. It took about an hour, but it's why I wanted to "pick" my watch in person and not order it over the internet or whatever. Plus the local AD was about $500 cheaper than any of the other retail or grey market sellers I found. POS is when to address these potential issues.

That said, it looks "normal" to me. It's a product of parallax and how thick the dial is, I think. It doesn't bother me because it's just not bad enough. I also think how could it be off enough to actually notice? Dial manufactured quite wrong, movement clocked wrong, movement made wrong, date disc misprinted, etc.? I guess the date disc could be off, I suppose. I don't think you have a problem.
 
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Hey all. First time poster and first time Omega owner. I recently went to an Omega Boutique and got a new SMP 300 white dial with the bracelet.

About a week after taking it home and staring at it over and over, I noticed what I think is a misalignment between the raised lume indeces and the little lines on the outside of the dial face ( not the bezel, that seems ok ).

Can you guys look at this picture and tell me if I'm crazy? The 6 o clock small box is a little too far to the left and the 9 o clock box is a little too low when compared to the -

When you turn it and view from slight different angles but head on the 6 o clock looks weird.
17510680306223375913184987077390.webp

Thanks in advance.
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100% completely disagree with your view of this dial.

I have magnified and rotated the image for a closer look at the indices. They look perfect, I do not see what you are seeing. Date window & 6 o’clock as well as 9 o’clock are both aligned perfectly to the outer track.

Probably just the angle you are viewing it combined with lighting creating an OCD fueled optical illusion. Nothing wrong at all with this dial!

Fine to ask the question here but honestly I do think Omega would think you are crazy 🤪 if you insist there is a manufacturing defect on this dial in need of repair. All I see is a beautiful SMP you should be enjoying on your wrist instead of staring SO HARD looking for imperfections.

It’s just head trash getting in the way, let it go and enjoy!
 
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You’re not crazy. I don’t see the flaw you’re talking about (though I may have lower standards than you do), but I 100% guarantee that if you spend enough time looking for a flaw in your Omega you will find one.

Omega is my favorite watch brand—it’s why I spend time on this extremely silly forum. But I’d urge you, do not buy into the hype: yes, it’s a “luxury” brand and they make superb watches, but as has been said here many times, it is also a mass-produced item courtesy of SWATCH corporation. They crank these things out by the thousands and pretty much all of the manufacturing and qc is automated. These are not rare. They are not flawless. They are not—in any logical sense—worth even a fifth of what we pay for them. You bought a beautiful stainless steel watch that was mostly made by machines with tolerances. The pricing is part of the marketing drama—just as it is for Rolex. It’ll be a step up from Seiko, perhaps, but it’s still a mass-produced watch that you overpaid for because of branding. We all do it here.

If you want the highest standard of quality control where every index is hand placed and pored over by a horological master craftsman, then look into Patek, Vacheron or Lange—maybe even Audemars. Omega is not in that tier of watchmaking.
 
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DougPhx DougPhx
have magnified and rotated the image for a closer look at the indices. They look perfect, I do not see what you are seeing

I don't know, I saw it so after you said this, I wondered if the visible Shadow was impacting my perspective, so I flipped the image and magnified it and I still see it.
 
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100% completely disagree with your view of this dial.

I have magnified and rotated the image for a closer look at the indices. They look perfect, I do not see what you are seeing. Date window & 6 o’clock as well as 9 o’clock are both aligned perfectly to the outer track.

Probably just the angle you are viewing it combined with lighting creating an OCD fueled optical illusion. Nothing wrong at all with this dial!

Fine to ask the question here but honestly I do think Omega would think you are crazy 🤪 if you insist there is a

DougPhx DougPhx
100% completely disagree with your view of this dial.

I have magnified and rotated the image for a closer look at the indices. They look perfect, I do not see what you are seeing. Date window & 6 o’clock as well as 9 o’clock are both aligned perfectly to the outer track.

Probably just the angle you are viewing it combined with lighting creating an OCD fueled optical illusion. Nothing wrong at all with this dial!

Fine to ask the question here but honestly I do think Omega would think you are crazy 🤪 if you insist there is a manufacturing defect on this dial in need of repair. All I see is a beautiful SMP you should be enjoying on your wrist instead of staring SO HARD looking for imperfections.

It’s just head trash getting in the way, let it go and enjoy!
One would have to be some what crazy in the first place to hoard enough $$ to spend it on an Omega rather than an appreciating asset lol.
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I don't know, I saw it so after you said this, I wondered if the visible Shadow was impacting my perspective, so I flipped the image and magnified it and I still see it.
Yes, it's there for sure. I'll take it to the Boutique and see if they can show me others to compare it to. No harm in checking.
 
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I don't know, I saw it so after you said this, I wondered if the visible Shadow was impacting my perspective, so I flipped the image and magnified it and I still see it.
IDK either, I just don’t see it. I think if we look too hard and too long at anything built by humans and machines we will find imperfections. I’m just baffled at how something so slight (if it is there at all) that requires “staring” for a long period of time to see it gets elevated to a level that creates a problem and prevents enjoyment.

These items help me with keeping perspective/managing expectations on a 5k purchase:

Vehicles can easily run 50/60k plus these days, imagine going through one with this much scrutiny what you would find lol.

Homes are super expensive. If the average consumer could see behind walls and understood how many construction flaws there were, how out of square almost every room is, and overall how much the finish carpentry and drywall hides all the sins of the builder they would LOSE THEIR MINDS!
 
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One would have to be some what crazy in the first place to hoard enough $$ to spend it on an Omega rather than an appreciating asset lol.

Yes, it's there for sure. I'll take it to the Boutique and see if they can show me others to compare it to. No harm in checking.
Honestly and no insult intended: I could care less about tracking the value of a watch. I buy them to enjoy and use, not as an “investment” I’m afraid of scratching or dinging.

Goes up? Great. Stays flat? Great. Loses value? Great. Has zero impact on my ownership experience and love of the reference. ZERO.

Owning it and enjoying it for many years is payment enough for me.
 
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