Bezel misaligned. Advice please...

Earlier this year, I purchased a Omega Seamaster Professional watch, skeleton back, 2012 model, full purchase documentation, certificates, polished wooden box for an attractive price, from a local independent jeweller.

It is a beautiful watch. The jeweller owned it before going into the business and due to the nature of his job, only wore it occasionally. It is in excellent condition.

It was his own watch and I even have the receipt from when he first purchased it.

He was going to pass it onto a family member of his, but put it up for sale in his shop. He had it serviced to check the seal, prior to thinking of passing it on to the family, of which I have the receipt also.

However, it has recently started to irritate me a bit that some time ago, I noticed the bezel only slightly misaligned at 12 o'clock. To be honest, the camera makes it look far worse than it actually is.

I understand from watch forums that other Omega owners have the same with their watches. Some owners have the bezel adjusted and others simply accept it and live with it.

A different local jeweller, who has a repair shop in another town, feels she personally would not be concerned with the misalignment as it is minor, but sought advice from the repairer who said if it is sent to him, he would price up an alignment job for me. Also, she staid that is is not a major job or else it would have to be sent to Omega.

Her advice is to leave well alone, as there are risks in servicing.

The jeweller I bought it from showed me on his own Seiko that his bezel is slightly out. My Tag Heuer's F1 bezel is perfect.

Have you had a slightly misaligned bezel and did you have work done to put it right.

I appreciate any advice.

Am I obsessing too much?

Overall, it is a superb watch, in pristine condition, which is lovely to wear.

When buying a 12-year-old mechanical watch you should probably count on the cost of a service, which will fix your bezel issue. I would leave it until you are ready to do that, but, plan on doing it.

It looks similar, one click before it.

I do know that other Omega watches, from online forum searches, have had misaligned bezels.

Does age/usage cause them to become misaligned?

My 2298.80.00 seamaster's bezel was slightly off and it bothered me. Not enough to have it corrected, but I completely understand.

I do suffer anxiety.

Am I over-thinking something which is easily fixed and no big deal?

As others have said, the bezel issue alone is probably not worth sending in for, but if the watch is due for a full service anyway, then yes, I’d definitely make a note of the issue and ask them to address it when doing the rest of the stuff too. It should be no problem for them to do so.

Just be prepared: a full Omega service is expensive (can be around $700 US), and the time from when you send it in to when it’s back on your wrist can be almost half a year. (I just got one of my watches back today—it was five months.)

But when it’s returned it will look like new, the bezel will be correct, and you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing that it’s running well, is fully water resistant, and shouldn’t need any other attention for a decade or so. It’s worth the short-term unpleasantness of waiting and spending.

And it will come with a new 2-year warranty from Omega. (So if they don’t properly realign the bezel you can send it back and they will, free of charge, and it will be much faster.)