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philwal
·As mentioned above, it may be keeping time well, but if it hasn’t been serviced in years the oils will be very dry and contaminated, causing wear to the movement. If it’s worn very sparingly, you could perhaps justify not servicing for a while. However, if it’s worn often, it really should be serviced very soon imo
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Fallout Boy
·this view: 😉
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Davidt
·I’ve decided to take your advice. I’ll take it in for servicing tomorrow. It’s too nice a watch!!
You can post your rough location (country/county/state etc) and people might be able to suggest a watchmaker.
Equally, there are countless threads on this forum recommending watchmakers in various countries.
Almost as bad as leaving it unserviced is getting a poor service.
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philwal
·You can post your rough location (country/county/state etc) and people might be able to suggest a watchmaker.
Equally, there are countless threads on this forum recommending watchmakers in various countries.
Almost as bad as leaving it unserviced is getting a poor service.
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philwal
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·I live in Lisburn, Northern Ireland and was planning to take it to Lunn, the official Omega dealer, who will send it off.
I certainly wouldn’t send this watch to Omega. The market value of the watch is around £600/700 give or take. An Omega service will likely cost the same.
Furthermore, they aren’t always as sympathetic to vintage as they ought to be.
Personally, I’d be sending that watch to WatchGuy, Mitka, Swiss Time Services or Simon Freese in the uk.
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philwal
·I certainly wouldn’t send this watch to Omega. The market value of the watch is around £600/700 give or take. An Omega service will likely cost the same.
Furthermore, they aren’t always as sympathetic to vintage as they ought to be.
Personally, I’d be sending that watch to WatchGuy, Mitka, Swiss Time Services or Simon Freese in the uk.
I certainly wouldn’t send this watch to Omega. The market value of the watch is around £600/700 give or take. An Omega service will likely cost the same.
Furthermore, they aren’t always as sympathetic to vintage as they ought to be.
Personally, I’d be sending that watch to WatchGuy, Mitka, Swiss Time Services or Simon Freese in the uk.
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Davidt
·You can send direct to STS and save the percentage that the jeweller likely adds to their cost.
I have a watch with them now.
I have a watch with them now.
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philwal
·You can send direct to STS and save the percentage that the jeweller likely adds to their cost.
I have a watch with them now.
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Dan S
·I reckon it’ll save time to go direct to Omega..
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··Purrrr-veyor of luxury cat box loungersI spoke to STS and described the watch. I was told that the calibre may not be one that they are licensed to work on, and if they were allowed the quote was not much different from sending to Omega. As it may have to go there anyway, I reckon it’ll save time to go direct to Omega..
This is an odd response from STS, given the likelihood of a fairly common movement inside your watch but it is what it is.
Try Simon (ex STS) if you think the watch might need major parts or Mitka or Christian (all members here and all with very sound recommendations) - they will surely provide you with a much more cost effective and more-collector friendly solution.
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philwal
·This is an odd response from ST, given the likelihood of a fairly common movement inside your watch but it is what it is.
Try Simon (ex STS) if you think the watch might need major parts or Mitka or Christian (all members here and all with very sound recommendations) - they will surely provide you with a much more cost effective and more-collector friendly solution.
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··Purrrr-veyor of luxury cat box loungersAs the watch has been running so well this last week, I assume (perhaps wrongly) that no major parts will need replacing. Anyway,I have left it with Lunn, in the hope that it needs a full service without major repair.
Ah well - what's done is done.
I hope (if it goes to Omega) that they don't do anything to the watch that you weren't expecting them to do.
Best of luck - let us know how it turns out.
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philwal
·I will.
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··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...Simon or Mitka are highly recommended for this piece.
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philwal
·In the meantime, my 1967 Seamaster has returned.
Now the hour has gone back I assume I have to wind forward 23 hours and then dial through the dates!
Now the hour has gone back I assume I have to wind forward 23 hours and then dial through the dates!
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·Here’s a question about my 1967 Seamaster which recently returned from being fixed under warranty by STS.
Working very well and then I allowed it to run down while wearing another watch. Wound it and set the time and date, and still keeping excellent time, and then stopped around 11:00 at night. I reset it and then it stopped around midnight, and then, next morning found it had stopped around 1:00. I’m wearing it now and it has been behaving perfectly and not stopped. So I’m wondering if it stopping is connected to the date change? Also, I have to say that the crown seems stiffer since I got it back.
Any thoughts? It is under a two year warranty since August.
Working very well and then I allowed it to run down while wearing another watch. Wound it and set the time and date, and still keeping excellent time, and then stopped around 11:00 at night. I reset it and then it stopped around midnight, and then, next morning found it had stopped around 1:00. I’m wearing it now and it has been behaving perfectly and not stopped. So I’m wondering if it stopping is connected to the date change? Also, I have to say that the crown seems stiffer since I got it back.
Any thoughts? It is under a two year warranty since August.
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philwal
·Just keeping an eye on the watch as it gets closer to midnight. As the second hand reached 10:00 it stopped moving. I shook the watch to start it ,Then a couple of minutes later when it was in line with the minute hand it stopped again. It is happening every minute after that. When it lines up with the minute hand. Then at 10:05 it wouldn’t move when shaken, so a gentle turn of the crown to wind it once started it moving again.
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·Once it reached 10:08 the second hand works as normal. I’ll see if it behaves the same at 11:00.
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