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DoctorEvil
路Greetings all.
I've come across several posts from members on this forum who say that mechanical watches are often not put back together the same way once they've been taken apart and that they don't work as well as before.
Sadly that's been my experience. I bought a midsize SMP 2551.80 brand new in 2005. It had been running flawlessly until it started losing a minute every couple of days in mid 2017 so I took it for its first service (I know, it was naughty of me but I didn't know better at the time 馃榿). After it came back from the Omega service centre, it looked and performed like a brand new watch. But after almost 2 years, the date display started getting stuck halfway every day so I sent it back again for service under warrranty. After this was fixed, one year later the watch stopped working completely even though it was on a watch winder. I suspected that it had developed a fault in the auto winding mechanism. Once again, it was fixed under warranty and now it seems fine again (fingers crossed). Needless to say, this has caused me to lose a lot of confidence in the Omega service centre but at least their customer service was good.
Has anyone else had a similar experience when servicing their watches? Would love to hear from you and thanks in advance for your responses.
I've come across several posts from members on this forum who say that mechanical watches are often not put back together the same way once they've been taken apart and that they don't work as well as before.
Sadly that's been my experience. I bought a midsize SMP 2551.80 brand new in 2005. It had been running flawlessly until it started losing a minute every couple of days in mid 2017 so I took it for its first service (I know, it was naughty of me but I didn't know better at the time 馃榿). After it came back from the Omega service centre, it looked and performed like a brand new watch. But after almost 2 years, the date display started getting stuck halfway every day so I sent it back again for service under warrranty. After this was fixed, one year later the watch stopped working completely even though it was on a watch winder. I suspected that it had developed a fault in the auto winding mechanism. Once again, it was fixed under warranty and now it seems fine again (fingers crossed). Needless to say, this has caused me to lose a lot of confidence in the Omega service centre but at least their customer service was good.
Has anyone else had a similar experience when servicing their watches? Would love to hear from you and thanks in advance for your responses.
