First post, thanks for having me on board
I purchased my seamaster 300m (latest version) brand new from an authorised dealer at the beginning of 2020. My first serious watch and It was incredible to join the club of those lucky enough to be able to have such a watch.
The watch ran at around + 0.3 sec per day, maybe even less all of last year.. incredible accuracy.
However around September I noticed it was slightly slow and had lost time. I reset the time several times over the coming weeks to make sure this was the case. I used the atomic time using a g shock, my phone and the time is website as a reference each time.
In December I called my AD who said that a master chronometer omega should not lose time and should not go from being consistently gaining time to suddenly losing it.
I took it to the AD at their request and they gave it to their watch maker to assess if it needed to go back to Omega ( they are authorised to service Rolex and omega)
I was told that the watch was not losing time and was in fact gaining time slightly... and well within 5 seconds per day.
I felt like I had been really silly bringing it in as it appeared they didn’t believe me. They said they would send it back to omega if I wished but it would mean up to 3-4 months without my watch, and that the best option was to monitor it over the coming months.
Here I am in mid January, the watch is crazy accurate when the time is reset and will stay exact for 2-3 days it seems, then after this it will lose more noticeably.
I would suggest it is losing 0.5 sec per day at worst. Which I can live with and don’t mind really at all.
My two questions are;
- Does going from being + time to - time indicate a issue inside the watch?
- Is allowing it to continue going to cause problems.
I am more than happy living with this level of accuracy as it is still incredible my only concern is that it is doing what omega claim it shouldn’t.
Thanks guys
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