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Wiscomega Bill
·Hello everyone,
New here so I'll start with a picture of my watch. It's new to me and my first Omega.
The thing is I took it to my local watchmaker after doing research on the various forums and determining that I wanted to repair it and wear it.
Since I'm an old guy I have left a trail of broken watches in my wake. I'm an active and adventurous kind of old man that rides a motorcycle and a bicycle and paddle a kayak, one or all of the three every day.
So the Omega ran slow and I thought it needed a cleaning, the watchmaker did that aand it keeps time accurately. He replaced the crystal, over polished the back of the case(a unishell) and I picked it up. Wore it for a week, kept good time. Started wearing it intermittently because I was doing some heavy construction and eventually it stopped. I tried t wind it, it basically wouldn't wind(turned a couple of times and dead stop).
It stopped again. So I went kayaking for a couple of hours, came home, took it off and set it aside...it ran fo 50 hours and stopped, I tried to wind it, again a couple of turns and no more. Wore it for a 12 hours, took it off fot the night, it stopped.
The watchmaker told me to set the date I need to rotate the hands around the clock twice to advance a day, that's how this model is.
I thnk it's still broken. So a couple of questions. BTW I really like this watch! So simple, no nonense, clean lines.
I know it's not real water resistant and that's OK.
Should I take the watch back to the same watchmaker?
Any guesses on the model year, movement(I asked the watchmaker what caliber it was and he looked at me with a shocked look and said I forget.).
Why does it have the crazy S in Seamaster?
How should the calendar work for reset.
But mostly...Should it wind???
Thanks so much.
Bill
New here so I'll start with a picture of my watch. It's new to me and my first Omega.
The thing is I took it to my local watchmaker after doing research on the various forums and determining that I wanted to repair it and wear it.
Since I'm an old guy I have left a trail of broken watches in my wake. I'm an active and adventurous kind of old man that rides a motorcycle and a bicycle and paddle a kayak, one or all of the three every day.
So the Omega ran slow and I thought it needed a cleaning, the watchmaker did that aand it keeps time accurately. He replaced the crystal, over polished the back of the case(a unishell) and I picked it up. Wore it for a week, kept good time. Started wearing it intermittently because I was doing some heavy construction and eventually it stopped. I tried t wind it, it basically wouldn't wind(turned a couple of times and dead stop).
It stopped again. So I went kayaking for a couple of hours, came home, took it off and set it aside...it ran fo 50 hours and stopped, I tried to wind it, again a couple of turns and no more. Wore it for a 12 hours, took it off fot the night, it stopped.
The watchmaker told me to set the date I need to rotate the hands around the clock twice to advance a day, that's how this model is.
I thnk it's still broken. So a couple of questions. BTW I really like this watch! So simple, no nonense, clean lines.
I know it's not real water resistant and that's OK.
Should I take the watch back to the same watchmaker?
Any guesses on the model year, movement(I asked the watchmaker what caliber it was and he looked at me with a shocked look and said I forget.).
Why does it have the crazy S in Seamaster?
How should the calendar work for reset.
But mostly...Should it wind???
Thanks so much.
Bill
