I recently bought my first vintage watch (Omega Seamaster). On day one it was running very fast, +20 seconds a minute and would occasionally get stuck and stop moving. If I bumped it (manual wind so not a lack of power issue) it would start back up. On day two, I was golfing with some friends and put the watch on to show one of them, I forgot to take it off and hit my drive. I noticed a few minutes later that the watch was still on... It's now keeping almost perfect time. With my very imprecise method of starting and stopping the timer on my iphone it's almost perfect. It's been running this way for 4 days now.
Obviously my watch needs to be serviced, and I probably shouldn't wear it while golfing
but it's at least an example of something that may have worked properly when the seller had it in front of them but got knocked during shipping and threw it off.
I'm going to contact the seller and let them know my experience but I can't fault them, though I was leaning heavily in that direction when it was +20 seconds fast a minute on the first day.
I also only paid $400US for the watch so it's on a very different scale.
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