Loose Date Wheel Issue - Quartz Seamaster Pro

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Hi all,

I’ve got a 2009 Seamaster Pro Quartz that is exhibiting a strange issue with the date wheel.

When the date wheel changes overnight, it never ends up sitting centrally within the window the next morning. Giving the watch a gentle shake pushes the wheel up into the correct position where it remains for the rest of the day.

I had the watch serviced by the official U.K. service centre in May last year - when it returned it starting showing this issue. The watch has already been back to them four times and they have failed to fix the issue.

Any ideas on what might be the issue?
 
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If the service centre was unable to diagnose the problem after four trips back to them, it is highly unlikely that we will be able to specify the nature of the problem. I think you should be sending it back again. And keep doing it until they get it right.
 
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If the service centre was unable to diagnose the problem after four trips back to them, it is highly unlikely that we will be able to specify the nature of the problem. I think you should be sending it back again. And keep doing it until they get it right.

The last time I sent it back their watchmaker managed to destroy the dial, crystal and bezel and they replaced everything free of charge along with a full refund of the service. Not entirely sure I want to risk sending it back again at this point.

The icing on the cake was that the replacement bezel was really sloppily installed and is badly misaligned. Oh well
 
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There are so many things that we don’t know that it is hard to know how to advise you. When you took the watch in, initially, did you take it to an authorized dealer, to an Omega boutique, or neither. If you returned it to the original storefront location each of the four times, the onus should be on them to send it somewhere where a proper repair can be completed, and to have it done N/C to you! It sounds as though your watch was handled very unprofessionally. That sounds very much unlike the professional service you would have gotten, had it been done by Omega. Do you have a receipt for the repair which tells you who actually did the “repair”? At this point, I think it should be up to whomever you took it to initially, to intercede on your behalf, and send it to an actual OMEGA service centre to have it put right.