SEAMASTER 300 CRYSTAL

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Hi. I wonder if anyone can advise please. I have my Seamster 300 (blue) since last May Day bank holiday. It's been great. Keeps amazing time.

But....I have noticed several times like I can see hundreds of dots in the crystal. Like someone sprayed something on it! I never wear watches when spraying anything. I tried cleaning it with a damp micro fibre cloth and tried convincing myself the dots had gone.....I was not totally convinced. One thing I noticed was when I wiped it with a damp cloth, I could see all the dots on there glass when it was wet and they disappeared as it dried.

I used a loupe and found I could still see some white dots (but not the hundreds that seemed to be there when the watch was damp). A couple for example between 12 and 1 o'clock that I could not shift. Maybe they are on the dial! I tried a Zeiss lens wipe and that did nothing as well. No one would see/ notice it. Even someone with a loupe may not pick it up.

Could it be the AR coating gone wrong? Or leftover adhesive from the crystal cover on purchase maybe? I have never come across this on my other watches (Tudor, Longines, Christopher Ward....)...if it's an AR defect then Omega may say that I did it! So I am not really sure what to do next (if anything).

Thanks
Glenn
 
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Maybe take it to a AD probably your best bet
Thanks. Sending to Omega at present seems like overkill....but that might end up as what needs to happen.
 
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I sent the watch to Omega. They said they cleaned the glass. I then asked if they had checked for a mark that I could see between 12 and 1 o'clock. They then came back to me later and said i was right and there was a mark on the dial itself. Now I have the watch back, and am absolutely gutted because the dial and bezel are no longer perfectly aligned. I should never have sent it to them. It looks to me like the dial may not be seated correctly. Now what do I do?!
 
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Wow. I feel like they should have to redo it. Why would they have not fixed it if they noticed it...
 
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In fixing one thing they've screwed up another. Probably by some junior technician.
The only thing you can really do is send it back and tell them to line things up.

I thought you could turn the bezel one click to the left and line it all up. But then after some thinking and toying with my 300's bezel I realised it didn't work that way.