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Diver88
·So let me throw this out here. As a bench mark, If I asked Omega to fix this watch what do you think they would quote?
Thoughts on Seamaster Professional.
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Nobel Prize
·I'll let others respond on pricing but it will most likely be worth it....considering todays prices. It may be a lot against what you paid for the watch 20 years ago.
It's a good watch....and competence under water does not really equate to impact resistance. You can go 10. 000 miles under the sea and never hit a rock....Or hit a door and never go under water. Truly only a cozy G-Shock has a good level of impact safety and even then, shit happens.
It's a good watch, and a beautiful one at that, so I would recommend fixing it.
It's a good watch....and competence under water does not really equate to impact resistance. You can go 10. 000 miles under the sea and never hit a rock....Or hit a door and never go under water. Truly only a cozy G-Shock has a good level of impact safety and even then, shit happens.
It's a good watch, and a beautiful one at that, so I would recommend fixing it.
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dinexus
·lol, you lost me at "this happened in 2003."
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rainking
·Look at it this way, you're actually coming out ahead financially at this point LOL. Had you never had an issue with the watch and worn it all this time and maintained it as you should, you would have serviced it at least twice in 16 years, maybe even three times. So forgetting about it and not seeming to really care again until now is a good thing for you. Get it serviced and it'll be like you just got a new Seamaster.
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Bp1000
·Regardless of its operation it really needed a service 7 years ago. In fact it probably should have had 2 by now.
A service would correct the issue anyway.
If you dropped your phone on the floor and broke the sapphire glass that is suppose to be super tough you can’t really blame to manufacturer.
Look on the bright side you’ve saved on at least 1 service.
A service would correct the issue anyway.
If you dropped your phone on the floor and broke the sapphire glass that is suppose to be super tough you can’t really blame to manufacturer.
Look on the bright side you’ve saved on at least 1 service.
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Diver88
·A 16-year grudge... you make my exes look sane
10/10, would give breakfast to
Just get it serviced and call it adaydecade
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Vega Mike
·I too am puzzled as to why you waited so long.
In any case I suggest you at least get the watch assessed by a qualified watchmaker. If after that you decide to repair and keep it, you will then only have to wait a short few more years before your watch is considered vintage!
In any case I suggest you at least get the watch assessed by a qualified watchmaker. If after that you decide to repair and keep it, you will then only have to wait a short few more years before your watch is considered vintage!
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Diver88
·Why did I wait 16 years? Good question. Honestly...life stuff got in the way, watch was out of sight/out of mind, the cost of the repair...probably a couple of other different reasons. I don't think I truly knew the cost of service befor tehe watch was purchased...nobody told me that the full service from Omega was like $400 in 2002. I also seem to remember that it being a chronometer also added service cost to it because it was a more precise mechanism. I fully understood the watch had to be serviced at regular intervals to keep everything working and watertight. I don't consider myself to be a stupid or dumb person either, but in retro-spec, I guess I didn't ask the right people the right questions at the time.
Does this make me an idiot unworthy of owning a Omega Seamaster...I'm sure some will think that (and I'm sure they'll put it in a reply). But hey that's what you open yourself up to on a blog/fourm site.
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Vega Mike
·So what will you do?
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Diver88
·Look at it this way, you're actually coming out ahead financially at this point LOL. Had you never had an issue with the watch and worn it all this time and maintained it as you should, you would have serviced it at least twice in 16 years, maybe even three times. So forgetting about it and not seeming to really care again until now is a good thing for you. Get it serviced and it'll be like you just got a new Seamaster.
Thanks for the ecouragement. It has always been my intent to get it repaired; just never did it. If I truly didn't care about it, my original post would have taken on a different slant...probably would have been more along the lines of getting rid of it....which was never my plan.
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Vega Mike
·Well done.
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ScubaPro
·I've been diving for decades, and never ever seen an Omega on anybody's wrist. If the design of the 300M is any indication, it's not a watch to be taken seriously by anybody who dives regularly. Skeleton hands? Why? Then there's a really bad bezel design if you're wearing gloves, and the biggest joke of all, a "manual" He escape valve. This valve alone shows the company has no clue what saturation divers actually do and why they need a system of pressure release (depending on their return profile) that they don't need to "manually" activate. And then there's the fact that now they put a display back on it which is just another seal to potentially leak. This was never a popular watch until the whole James Bond product placement marketing, and apparently a lot of guys though they'd look cooler if they had the "Bond" watch on their wrist. It's sad, really. What is also interesting is the fact that they started building the Proplof again a few years ago; a watch that was basically a failure in the commercial dive world. The locking bezel system is a mess, again they've put that stupid display back on it. And it's a huge hunk of metal that is unwieldy at best and seems to be popular only with watch types who have never been diving in their life. But Omega is better at marketing than designing dive watches, and that's all that matters when it comes to selling watches apparently. Look at how successful they've been (since the internet) with the moon watch, the first watch worn on the moon and also the first watch to fail, at least twice, on the moon. The co-axial movement has absolutely no advantages in practice at all, and is harder to service. But it sure makes for good ad copy for people who don't know any better. Rugged indeed. There's a reason all but a few don't hold their value well at all.
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Canuck
·If you want a timekeeper that is impervious to damage as a result of an accident such as you described, buy a sundial. The exact problem you encountered after bumping your mechanical watch would not have happened to a quartz watch. Quartz has no hairspring! But any watch, quartz or mechanical, can suffer damage in a grocery list of ways as a result of an accident. If an Omega costs 20 times the price of a Swatch, it is NOT 20 times more resistant to bumps and bangs. And if it has never happened to you before, you bin lucky. Watches fail, and watchmakers keep fixing them.
My watch was not put out of order due to aextraodinary event.
You really have no,idea, do you?
My watch was not put out of order due to aextraodinary event.
You really have no,idea, do you?
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Diver88
·I've been diving for decades, and never ever seen an Omega on anybody's wrist. If the design of the 300M is any indication, it's not a watch to be taken seriously by anybody who dives regularly. Skeleton hands? Why? Then there's a really bad bezel design if you're wearing gloves, and the biggest joke of all, a "manual" He escape valve. This valve alone shows the company has no clue what saturation divers actually do and why they need a system of pressure release (depending on their return profile) that they don't need to "manually" activate. And then there's the fact that now they put a display back on it which is just another seal to potentially leak. This was never a popular watch until the whole James Bond product placement marketing, and apparently a lot of guys though they'd look cooler if they had the "Bond" watch on their wrist. It's sad, really. What is also interesting is the fact that they started building the Proplof again a few years ago; a watch that was basically a failure in the commercial dive world. The locking bezel system is a mess, again they've put that stupid display back on it. And it's a huge hunk of metal that is unwieldy at best and seems to be popular only with watch types who have never been diving in their life. But Omega is better at marketing than designing dive watches, and that's all that matters when it comes to selling watches apparently. Look at how successful they've been (since the internet) with the moon watch, the first watch worn on the moon and also the first watch to fail, at least twice, on the moon. The co-axial movement has absolutely no advantages in practice at all, and is harder to service. But it sure makes for good ad copy for people who don't know any better. Rugged indeed. There's a reason all but a few don't hold their value well at all.
This is the candid response I was looking for. So in your opinion, what watch brands are taken as serious dive watches? What watches are found with saturation divers?
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Bimmerman77
·I dive in sometimes extremely murky water usually looking for evidence or dead bodies. But even when I recreational dive, I’ve never seen someone wear an Omega or a Rolex. We leave them in the glove boxes of our cars. Don’t get me wrong, I love my seamasters and my submariners, but I use a Suunto Eon dive computer. A regular watch is honestly useless.
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Please expand on why I have no idea? It's been pointed out to me that basically impact is impact and depending on the exact sequence of events and conditions, a seemingly minor bump is able to bring the watch to it's knees. I understand that now. My "extraodinary" statement above was in reference to the wrecked Ferrari...I would say a head on collision is a totally different scenario than driving over a speed bump at 3-4 mph and twisting the car's frame. I'm asking these questions here so I can have/get an idea...don't knock me for that.
If you want a timekeeper that is impervious to damage as a result of an accident such as you described, buy a sundial. The exact problem you encountered after bumping your mechanical watch would not have happened to a quartz watch. Quartz has no hairspring! But any watch, quartz or mechanical, can suffer damage in a grocery list of ways as a result of an accident. If an Omega costs 20 times the price of a Swatch, it is NOT 20 times more resistant to bumps and bangs. And if it has never happened to you before, you bin lucky. Watches fail, and watchmakers keep fixing them.
My watch was not put out of order due to aextraodinary event.
You really have no,idea, do you?
Please expand on why I have no idea? It's been pointed out to me that basically impact is impact and depending on the exact sequence of events and conditions, a seemingly minor bump is able to bring the watch to it's knees. I understand that now. My "extraodinary" statement above was in reference to the wrecked Ferrari...I would say a head on collision is a totally different scenario than driving over a speed bump at 3-4 mph and twisting the car's frame. I'm asking these questions here so I can have/get an idea...don't knock me for that.
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·Extraordinary only in that, your watch might survive for decades encountering “door jamb bumps” and worse, to never behave the way yours did at that particular nano-second. Extraordinary only in that (as has been explained (ad nauseum), the particular point in the oscillation of the balance wheel and the particular state of the hairspring, it likely vibrated in a momentarily erratic fashion vertically (it normally only operates in a horizontal attitude as it “breathes”), and it likely got caught up on the stud carrier, or the regulator. When you begin to know watches the way many of us do, you would acknowledge as this being a very minor occurrence. But then it’s not my watch.
