'Slow Mo Guys' Get Incredible Shots of Dark Side of the Moon

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Cool, but not the best advertisement for Omega! Lots of debris inside the watch…and the chronograph isn’t adjusted per specs.
 
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This now makes me scared to run my chronograph. It really looks intense seeing all that metal slam together!

This also reminds me, I want to pick up a set of those microscope lenses for some art projects... But that would eat into my watch budget... 🤔
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Cool, but not the best advertisement for Omega! Lots of debris inside the watch…and the chronograph isn’t adjusted per specs.
how can you tell the chronograph isn’t adjusted per specs? just curious! I’m learning the different parts of the movement and how they function together, with the goal of breaking down and reassembling an ST36
 
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The teeth of the coupling yoke wheel are adjusted too deeply into the teeth of the chronograph wheel. The former should extend about 1/3 into the latter…looks like 2/3+ in the video.
 
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The teeth of the coupling yoke wheel are adjusted too deeply into the teeth of the chronograph wheel. The former should extend about 1/3 into the latter…looks like 2/3+ in the video.

Do you think it's been incorrectly serviced, or is it possible Omega let it past QC like this? The tiny little fibres I would think are unavoidable but that big bit the size of one of the teeth was visible with the naked eye through the caseback, I was pretty surprised by that. It is an older model, I wondered if maybe it's been opened up before. The owner didn't seem to care, that would annoy the hell out of me!

The video was excellent. I knew it was a fairly violent action but seeing wheels vibrating and just how much the hands swing like pendulums on the reset was still surprising.
 
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Do you think it's been incorrectly serviced, or is it possible Omega let it past QC like this? The tiny little fibres I would think are unavoidable but that big bit the size of one of the teeth was visible with the naked eye through the caseback, I was pretty surprised by that. It is an older model, I wondered if maybe it's been opened up before. The owner didn't seem to care, that would annoy the hell out of me!

The video was excellent. I knew it was a fairly violent action but seeing wheels vibrating and just how much the hands swing like pendulums on the reset was still surprising.
I doubt it’s been serviced just given the age of these, so likely came from the factory like this. But only the owner can say for sure.
 
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Cool, but not the best advertisement for Omega! Lots of debris inside the watch…and the chronograph isn’t adjusted per specs.
Thats just "gnats popcorn" according to the owner. 😀😀