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路You Europeans put mayonnaise on your fries/chips...that just totally strange 
Please help identify this Seamaster Heirloom
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路路Oooo subtitles!What is meant by the above is that the thread starter has little say as to how the thread evolves. Next time the brawl will be about tobacco policies, penguins or which is the best mayonaise (home made, naturally).
Welcome @matchanw 馃榾
Sorry just practicing. 馃槜
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Edward53
路You Europeans put mayonnaise on your fries/chips...that just totally strange
Tsk tsk. Only the French and Belgians do that! We Brits put ketchup on our fries and salt and vinegar on our chips. And if you didn't know, Brit chips are not US chips, which we call crisps.
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Archer
路路Omega Qualified WatchmakerDepends on your goal. Omega certainly has the replacement parts and they can reproduce some of the more unusual finishes. My local watchmaker, the Rolex guy, says they sent a vintage Constellation with instructions on what not to do, and their customer was pretty happy. He says the price for service was competitive too but he is a Rolex watchmaker after all.
Tom
Just be aware that instructions sent by the customer are not the final word - Omega is. If Omega determines that a parts requires replacing in order to provide the full two year warranty, and not potentially have the watch come back, they will either insist on replacing it or return the watch unserviced if you refuse. Also note that sometimes they don't ask, and just replace parts that the customer may not want replaced - hands are the most common.
They will not do things like stabilize lume on hands for example in order to use them again safely, so the only option they have is replacement. Omega is typically the last place any vintage collector who wants to preserve the originality of the watch would want to send their watch.
On the refinishing aspect, it's completely up to the customer, but the point made is valid one - once done refinishing can't be undone, so if there's any doubt whatsoever about what someone wants, better to leave it unpolished until they have decided.
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JwRosenthal
路Tsk tsk. Only the French and Belgians do that! We Brits put ketchup on our fries and salt and vinegar on our chips. And if you didn't know, Brit chips are not US chips, which we call crisps.
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路Just as long as nobody starts talking about how great that vile spread Vegemite is. 馃槈
Give the Aussies a break. Vegemite is far less of a crime against tastebuds than Bundaberg rum, which I suspect is really bottled demonic urine. Having these two items in their diet alone makes them tough enough to survive the many native animal and insect species that want to kill them 馃槣
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路Just be aware that instructions sent by the customer are not the final word - Omega is. If Omega determines that a parts requires replacing in order to provide the full two year warranty, and not potentially have the watch come back, they will either insist on replacing it or return the watch unserviced if you refuse. Also note that sometimes they don't ask, and just replace parts that the customer may not want replaced - hands are the most common.
They will not do things like stabilize lume on hands for example in order to use them again safely, so the only option they have is replacement. Omega is typically the last place any vintage collector who wants to preserve the originality of the watch would want to send their watch.
On the refinishing aspect, it's completely up to the customer, but the point made is valid one - once done refinishing can't be undone, so if there's any doubt whatsoever about what someone wants, better to leave it unpolished until they have decided.
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路路Omega Qualified WatchmakerAfter reading this forum for some time, this is one of two things I just can't understand. (1) How is it that Omega is unable to respect its own vintage models? Giving a vintage watch a brand-new dial and polishing the $%^& out of the case may make it look beautiful, to some anyway, but it will never look like it did originally, nor will it somehow magically morph into a brand new watch. There are musical instrument makers with a history dating back to the late 19th century that will lovingly restore an antique example as near as possible to its original condition, certainly its original cosmetic condition, and would probably refuse to do what Omega insists on doing. But (2) as Tom says, if after due reflection an owner wants to take a watch with a badly scratched case and pitted dial that has a collectors' value of $150 - $500 and have Omega make it look like new, isn't it good that he has that option?
1 - Why doesn't Omega respect their vintage models? Because it doesn't help them sell new watches I suspect.
2 - Yes it's great that the people who want a watch to look new have that option if they want it, and I've never said it was a bad thing that those people get what they want.
Giving people what they want would be great, and if they offered an option to "make it look as new as possible" and another option to "preserve the patina at all costs" that would be even better, but unfortunately they don't offer the latter at this time.
People who have sent a watch in with a note, who get the watch back exactly as the note asked often make the mistake of thinking that Omega follows instructions you send - that's not the case.
If you send a note along that says "please leave my vintage dial on" and it comes back with the vintage dial still on it, you can be sure that even if you didn't send the note it would have come back with that dial still on it. Omega will not leave a dial (or conserve a dial) that is flaking the finish off, no matter what note you send along. They will either force you to replace/refinish the dial, or send the watch back without completing the work.
I just want people to understand this before they send off a watch that they want to keep as it is, and end up with something they were not expecting.
Cheers, Al
