Another accuracy question

Airbus · Sep 5, 2021

So - - I now have three Omegas. The new Moonwatch, the new Seamester 300 and the Seamaster Diver 300m. The first two are very consistant in their accuracy - around 2s + per day no matter position. The last one - the 8800 diver - not the same story. During the day while wearing it, it is almost bang on - perhaps -0,5 s per day but so small variance that it is hard to tell. However, during the night it is a different story. 9 pm - 7.30 am it lost 2.5 s. I have it crown up - I can try other positions but my other watches shows very little variances in this position.

I can live with all of this, but if something is wrong with the watch I would like to fix it.

Is the 8800 movement more likely to show these variances than the other movements in my watches?

Since my watch is 3 days old - shold I take it back? My ad got it from Omega the day before so I guess it is very new.

dstfno · Sep 5, 2021

Did you give the watch a full wind when you got it? Accuracy may drop when you're on the end of your power reserve

Airbus · Sep 5, 2021

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Did you give the watch a full wind when you got it? Accuracy may drop when you're on the end of your power reserve

Thanks, I gave it a full wind friday morning. After having it on the wrist the whole day I also wore it during Saturday. I will try to wind it again, but my other watches doesnt show this behavior.

FL23833 · Sep 5, 2021

Try it in other positions overnight. My 8800 gains 5 sec just overnight when I leave it face up I think crown up slows it down. Remember that Omega's 5 spd accuracy claim is just an average of 6 positions.

Archer · Sep 5, 2021

Airbus
So - - I now have three Omegas. The new Moonwatch, the new Seamester 300 and the Seamaster Diver 300m. The first two are very consistant in their accuracy - around 2s + per day no matter position. The last one - the 8800 diver - not the same story. During the day while wearing it, it is almost bang on - perhaps -0,5 s per day but so small variance that it is hard to tell. However, during the night it is a different story. 9 pm - 7.30 am it lost 2.5 s. I have it crown up - I can try other positions but my other watches shows very little variances in this position.

I can live with all of this, but if something is wrong with the watch I would like to fix it.

Is the 8800 movement more likely to show these variances than the other movements in my watches?

Since my watch is 3 days old - shold I take it back? My ad got it from Omega the day before so I guess it is very new.

There is nothing wrong with your watch based on what you have posted, so there's nothing to fix, and no reason for a return.

ducatiti · Sep 5, 2021

I am in the same situation with three new metas but my AT 8900 is running -.5 slow. It bothered INITIALLY considering what omega claims but that is based on the their lab testing. I agree with archer, and given time you wouldn’t care much about it and just continued wearing the watch. Just human nature that we want to get what we pay for but I learned just to move on. Besides, it’s not worth opening a case for such a small discrepancy IMO.

Airbus · Sep 5, 2021

ducatiti
I am in the same situation with three new metas but my AT 8900 is running -.5 slow. It bothered INITIALLY considering what omega claims but that is based on the their lab testing. I agree with archer, and given time you wouldn’t care much about it and just continued wearing the watch. Just human nature that we want to get what we pay for but I learned just to move on. Besides, it’s not worth opening a case for such a small discrepancy IMO.

Thanks - I guess you are right both of you. I guess I expected more consistent results, and going from 0- -0,5 to -2,5 during the night was not what I expected. Maybe the 8900 is more consistent with its dubble barrels…

gbesq · Sep 5, 2021

You have to keep things in perspective. There are 86,400 seconds in a day and your mechanical watches are counting out every one of them, day after day, year after year. If a watch is only 99.9% accurate it would be off by 1 minute and 27 seconds per day, which is unacceptable in the luxury watch world. The deviations that you are talking about are miniscule. Don't worry about it.

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