Curious if anybody has had experience with an X-33 not working when the dead battery is changed. No corrosion and made sure the little spring is making good contact. I even tested the battery with a special tester that puts a light load on the battery and it was holding the 3V. The person I got it from said it was working and the battery died. Thanks for any info. I am thinking sending to an Omega service center is the best thing but have heard some expensive stories.

 

I know the problem: it's powered by a battery. Solution: buy a mechanical.

 

Doing a battery change isn't difficult but you need a fresh battery of the correct type (CR2320 only).

Some battery testers can suck the juice from a battery so special testers are required.

If you can't get it going with a battery change your options are:

Send it to a watchmaker who specialises in electric/electronic watches.

Send it to an Omega Service centre.

 

Good thinkin' 99

 

Thanks for the pointers, all of the normal stuff seems intact to off to Omega for service.

 

hopefully they give you the blue light 1666D

 

There is no D version of the 1666....

Cheers, Al

 

A mechanical Quartz watch?

 

I believe there is a D movement which is the thermal compensated variant. I thought I read it here http://omegaforums.net/threads/speedy-x33-1-gen-strange-behaviour.6971/

 

Yep - I thought there was one also based on people saying they had a D installed when they sent their watches in for service. But recently someone was told that there wasn't a D version so I went digging on the Extranet to find out...

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f20/omega-seattle-service-x-33-old-quartz-finally-321-a-963431.html

Only the A, B, and C are shown on the Extranet, and I would expect to see a D there if there was one. Also someone in the thread received "official" word that the D does not exist...

So it appears that there is only the C version as the latest...

Cheers, Al

 

JLC mecha-quartz, as seen in the IWC 3741.

Double to you!

 

It still has a battery?
All the tuning forks are even more mechanical!

 

Sure does. Battery powered quartz base with a mechanical chronograph. Only the original Hamilton 500 series are true hybrids though - battery powered but with balance wheels.

 

Do not forget ESA9154 Dynatron. 28800ah
The Speedsonic is also a fully mechanical chronograph. COSC even!!!

 

Or ESA9156. Most silly complication ever made?
Biorythms......

 

Had my 1st gen X-33 for a complete service in Biel/Bienne last autumn. Talked to the watchmaker who made the full service in person when I had the chance to visit a watchmaker course (de- and assembling the Railmaster XXL). He said there is no 1666D version (+1 for Al). But I think they put the C-version in. Before the service I had +4 secs a week and green light and now +1 sec per month and blue light.

 

A month ago I found my F300 stopped, so I took it to my watchmaker for a change of batteries (I know better than opening one of'em fork things), and I was scared sockless when he told me that it did not work...

We had been talking about the old mercury based 1.35 batteries, and he told me he still had some somewhere around his shop, but that the F300 did not need those old batteries. He kept the watch, I went home worried, because I quite like my Geneve F300, but I am not ready to buy another one, and I didn't know where to take it (my watchmaker had already told me he wouldn't touch a F300 with a barge pole, "been there, bought the microscope and got fed up to the teeth" were his words, only in Spanish we are way more vernacularly colourful, not Aussy colourful, but getting there).

When I got back the next day, he was as puzzled as me. He had put one of those old 1,35 batteries in the thing, and it went buzzing like there was no tomorrow. I hope he has more of those next time.

Batteries are a thing of the devil.

 

Yes they are.