Noise when winding up a seamaster 300m

sean2k · Oct 5, 2019

Hey guys I have a new seamaster 300m which is 7 months old it was fine right up to a few weeks ago when it started making a grinding noise from when it's flat and powering up the movement it's since been back to omega twice they have there top guy on the job and they are saying there's nothing up with the watch is this normal? I feel so let down with the watch can any one out any light on it cheers

AntonisCy · Oct 5, 2019

Could you record the sound with your phone?

Slowpoker · Oct 5, 2019

AntonisCy
Could you record the sound with your phone?

I concur, it's really hard to know what you're describing without a recording.
When I first wound my seamaster the noise it made sounded odd, but it was very slight and you could only hear up close. Turned out to be normal. It was a sort of grinding noise.

Other than that the timepiece did make a click sound when it was fully wound. That was the over-wind protection slipping.

Canuck · Oct 5, 2019

S sean2k
Hey guys I have a new seamaster 300m which is 7 months old it was fine right up to a few weeks ago when it started making a grinding noise from when it's flat and powering up the movement it's since been back to omega twice they have there top guy on the job and they are saying there's nothing up with the watch is this normal? I feel so let down with the watch can any one out any light on it cheers

It sounds to me as though you are under the impression that you aren’t getting the straight goods from Omega’s “top guy”! Could that be the case? A lot happens in a self-winding watch when you wind it manually. In all my decades of repairing watches and collecting them, I have never run into an automatic wind watch that didn’t make a sound when wound manually. The sound is often a “whirring” sound as the reversers (which operate at a slow speed when winding automatically), really spin when wound manually. Secret? Don’t hold the watch up to your ear when you wind it manually! And trust Omega. How long has it been since you have owned a mechanical watch?

sean2k · Oct 6, 2019

Cheers guys this has been helpful it's my first automatic watch you don't have to have to close to your ear to ear the noise the thing that is bugging me it's never done it since it was new tho cheers again

Canuck · Oct 6, 2019

S sean2k
Cheers guys this has been helpful it's my first automatic watch you don't have to have to close to your ear to ear the noise the thing that is bugging me it's never done it since it was new tho cheers again

Never done it since it was new? Twice, the technician at Omega has found nothing out of the ordinary with it? I suggest that it is functioning the same way now as it did 7 or 8 months ago, and you only noticed it recently. Are you near an OB or an AD? If so, go and ask them if they will permit you to wind a stock watch. Either the same, or a near equivalent model. Try several, just in case. If you don’t get no satisfaction 😀, maybe stick with quartz watches in the future. (Oh, to be so lucky as to have hearing that will pickup the sounds mechanical watches make!)

sean2k · Oct 6, 2019

Hey mate I done all the testing of other watches in the ad near me York England it's a loud grinding noise just doesn't seem right to me cheers again

sean2k · Oct 6, 2019

The noise doesn't happen every time thou if that helps any one

Noise when winding up a seamaster 300m

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