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Is it normal or a manufacturing defect for an omega to have off centered date wheel? What causes it?
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ErichPryde
·I think there may be something wrong with the date window on one of my cats tbh
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Scarecrow Boat
· ·Burt Macklin, FBIare these tolerances across all brands? Have you owned any rolex, iwc etc etc. Do they have the same tolerances?
Tudor misaligned date wheel
Misaligned hands. The proper way to see how “off” the hands are is to line up the hour hand with the hour marker… not the minute hand with the hour marker.
Bezel that wouldn’t line up precisely at 12
Engraving that doesn’t line up precisely at 12
There are loads more examples across other brands, but I’ll leave you to do the rest of the work.
My own personal Sub had misaligned hands
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ErichPryde
·Each brand has their own tolerances and each brand offers a warranty for a reason… no brand is perfect. You seemed to have been well equipped enough to find a number of QC issues with Omega but couldn’t be bothered to look for the same with others brands. So, here are a few examples for you. These are all images you could have found if you did the search yourself
Tudor misaligned date wheel
Misaligned hour hand
Bezel that wouldn’t line up precisely at 12
Engraving that doesn’t line up precisely at 12
There are loads more examples, even across other brands, but I’ll leave you to do the rest of the work.
Ironically when I did a Google search for these issues with omega, that same search came up with a whole bunch of Rolex examples, including unaligned text and non-rotating bezels that weren't straight. Oh, and they were real watches, not "reps."
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hen
·Hi Apurba sorry if I am late to the discussion, but maybe what you are are experiencing is parallax. It is very common in watch fotografi. Please view a Omega in real life, and I guarantee you will be a fan forever. Welcome to Omega Forum.
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Apurba
·Each brand has their own tolerances and each brand offers a warranty for a reason… no brand is perfect. You seemed to have been well equipped enough to find a number of QC issues with Omega but couldn’t be bothered to look for the same with others brands. So, here are a few examples for you. These are all images you could have found if you did the search yourself
Tudor misaligned date wheel
Misaligned hands. The proper way to see how “off” the hands are is to line up the hour hand with the hour marker… not the minute hand with the hour marker.
Bezel that wouldn’t line up precisely at 12
Engraving that doesn’t line up precisely at 12
There are loads more examples across other brands, but I’ll leave you to do the rest of the work.
My own personal Sub had misaligned hands
Because I see people to have a polarised stance on this. On one hand, some say that it costs a lot of money, it better be perfect(specially on reddit). Others say that it is just entry level l, can't expect much.
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·It never ceases to amaze me how some people can obsess over something thing as trivial as the bloody date display! if it bothers them that much they should perhaps go for a watch without that particular complication
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Apurba
·It never ceases to amaze me how some people can obsess over something thing as trivial as the bloody date display! if it bothers them that much they should perhaps go for a watch without that particular complication
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josiahg52
·Hey! Thanks for replying. Sorry if I sounded aggressive, it was immature of me.
Since you have been in this hobby, as you stated for quite some time; are these tolerances across all brands? Have you owned any rolex, iwc etc etc. Do they have the same tolerances?
A tolerance, as I'm referring to it, means an acceptable error rate, let's call it. Every brand has their own tolerances. I've no idea what each brand sets their tolerances at, maybe a little of Omega's since we have multiple certified service providers who've discussed things like the date window, hour and minute hand alignments, time keeping, etc. I've seen all manner of misalignments and only a very, very, very few were totally bothersome and even fewer where I obtained or pursued correction. I don't pore over hyper-macro photos, draw lines in Photoshop, or inspect each watch with a 10x loupe. Be less critical. The watches offered now by haute horology, "luxury" brands, and even the tiny companies making their watches in China are TONS better than anything of the past. Enjoy them.
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· ·Burt Macklin, FBIHow many watches out of 10 watches would have such "imperfections"? Are bezel, seconds hand misalignment common? Or a rare case? If you could clear that up for me
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Dan S
·Let me just pop into HQ to retrieve this data for you
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ErichPryde
·Thanks for doing that, Aaron. Apparently there is a controversy on Reddit.
Controversy on Reddit?
Surely you can't be serious, Dan!
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Apurba
·Let me just pop into HQ to retrieve this data for you
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·I didn't exactly ask for the stats, it should be obvious
Gosh, with as much research as you were able to do and with as obvious as this should be I'm shocked you can't figure it out for yourself. Could it be that figuring it out was never the point?
But seriously if I've gotten every single thing in this entire thread wrong, I'm sure you can spend some time around here figuring out for yourself just how uncommon these issues actually are.
Right?
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A classic if ever there was one
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Canuck
·It never ceases to amaze me how some people can obsess over something thing as trivial as the bloody date display! if it bothers them that much they should perhaps go for a watch without that particular complication
I spent 25 years in the retail jewellery business, selling Rolex, Omega, Longines, Tag, B & M, Rado, Cartier, and many other more pedestrian brands. Never in all those year was I aware or the obsessive, compulsive disorder (and a disorder is what it is IMO). I got out of the jewellery business before people succumbed to such a condition.
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Gabguzro
·OP, my only recommendation would be to buy your watches in person, no matter the brand. Seems like you are very OCD about all the details, so buying online might cause some headaches. There are great examples and there are lemons in every industry and every brand. $5K is no pocket change so I can understand the question, but those expectations in the current world of mass-produced things are hard to live with.
