Omega 1250 cal - quartz replacement?

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Hi Guys

Thanks for the add 馃榿

I've got a seamaster 300hz cone which I love dearly - love the look of it .

I got it as not running due to battery leaking and corroding everything. I'm pretty good fixing watches mechanical and quartz been a hobbist for your years .

I did lots of research and took it apart cleaned it all out and serviced and oiled it . Got it running but I'm pretty sure the index wheel is toast. It runs like a stop watch now 馃槀 the seconds hands goes round in 20 second ish .

I've done all the adjustments and that's best I can get it . So I'm waiting for a new index wheel to come up ( at a reasonable price) as I know they are like hens teeth.

Is there an old eta or quartz movement I can put in the meantime? ( Please don't burn me I know it's sacrilegious 馃檹) I love wearing it and would like continue until I'm in a position to fix it .

If it's not possible no worries 馃槑 I'm happy to do abit of moding ( but not to the original parts )

TIA

 
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Replacing the movement a quartz movement is a bit on a long shot, imo.

I successfully serviced an Accutron 214, which is a similar predecessor to your Omega 1250. My experience was that it requires a very clean index wheel with no damage. Did you verify yours under a good microscope? Once you verified the index, the pawls need to be adjusted under microscope for alignment and proper phasing.
 
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Yes , was really rusty the 300 small teeth didn't look great. I tried rust a little bit of white vinegar because at that point I pretty much knew it was that . Adjusted the paws up and squared them up . Which got it running but not how it should be .
 
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The best technical guide I've found is for the Longines cal. 6312 (really an ESA 9162 like the Omega cal. 1250) but that manual, same as the Omega and ESA ones, doesn't provide dimensions. Assuming you're okay using temporary hands to go along with a temporary movement, the critical dimensions will be date position and stem height. Since you have the movement, you can measure those. My guess would be that the stem height will be significantly more than common quartz movements, but that's just a guess. No idea about the date position, but maybe you could live with an empty placeholder there temporarily.

One thing that probably isn't a concern is movement size. Esslinger sells an inexpensive collection of plastic movement holders that are made to be cut to fit. There are like 50 in the package, and surely one will fit whatever quartz movement you find. You just cut the plastic to fit the watch case. It's not necessarily a long-term solution, but will work fine for your purposes.

As others have said, it's probably quite a long shot, but you might get lucky.