Not impressed with my PO 8500

STANDY

It's a mechanical watch, you are going to get that. Buy a Quartz if you want better than -1 to +6 a day

Do the math 63 divided by 14. Your watch is fine. That's why you have a crown to tweek the gain once a week.

No mechanical watch is going to be as good as a Quartz. As not many Quartz are going to be as cool as a mechanical

Chill and enjoy the stylish watch you have.

M Moswissa

i probably don't really need to open a thread but I would like everyone's input. The PO 8500 42mm with the orange bezel was my dream watch and I finally pulled the trigger. It's my first high end watch I ever owned and one that I value greatly.

It's been 2 weeks so far, the watch is very precise but not accurate. Gained a good 63 seconds in 2 weeks. I wear my watch everyday and I'm very active. It gains 2 seconds overnight regardless of resting position and the rest gains consistently throughout the day. I told omega and they say it's normal. I go online and people are getting +1 per day or just way better accuracy in general. Something the 8500 is meant to be doing. , so I guess I'm the unlucky one. My $99 seiko 5 automatic does a better job...The omega tech didn't even wanna touch my watch he said "it's running fine, we make our watches run fast by design blah blah"

Second thing is a common complain I hear everywhere and there isn't a solution. The watch is either too tight or too loose when I add or remove a half life. So I'm just trying to live with it on the loose side.

So it's been 2 weeks and I thought about returning the watch. I really don't want too plus I already feel bad cuz of all the desk scratches it acquired. I probably won't return it but I want you guys to give me some advice on what to do or any similar experiences. I like when I hear others say their watch acts the same but so far from why I have research, everyone is mostly getting excellent accuracy.

Thanks !

oddboy

I have quite a bit of variance across the 8 or so watches I rotate through. Some run fast, some run slow. Averaged out across all of them, they're about 0.01 spd fast, good enough for me!

M Moswissa

i probably don't really need to open a thread but I would like everyone's input. The PO 8500 42mm with the orange bezel was my dream watch and I finally pulled the trigger. It's my first high end watch I ever owned and one that I value greatly.

It's been 2 weeks so far, the watch is very precise but not accurate. Gained a good 63 seconds in 2 weeks. I wear my watch everyday and I'm very active. It gains 2 seconds overnight regardless of resting position and the rest gains consistently throughout the day. I told omega and they say it's normal. I go online and people are getting +1 per day or just way better accuracy in general. Something the 8500 is meant to be doing. , so I guess I'm the unlucky one. My $99 seiko 5 automatic does a better job...The omega tech didn't even wanna touch my watch he said "it's running fine, we make our watches run fast by design blah blah"

Second thing is a common complain I hear everywhere and there isn't a solution. The watch is either too tight or too loose when I add or remove a half life. So I'm just trying to live with it on the loose side.

So it's been 2 weeks and I thought about returning the watch. I really don't want too plus I already feel bad cuz of all the desk scratches it acquired. I probably won't return it but I want you guys to give me some advice on what to do or any similar experiences. I like when I hear others say their watch acts the same but so far from why I have research, everyone is mostly getting excellent accuracy.

Thanks !

Superdoc

I suggest you quickly buy several more Automatic watches.... Wear a single model, at most 2 days consecutively.
You'll find that you never have an accuracy issue again...