jleef

I've had a couple of Omega reps over the last year or two and I'm currently considering getting myself a gen 42mm PO. As I'll be buying this with inheritance money it's going to hold a lot of sentimental value for me, and it'd be something I'd like to hand to to future generations of Jleef =) I'd like to get some engraving done on the back of the case - a few words perhaps, to make it more unique and special to me, but don't know if the PO caseback is best suited to this as the seamonster design already takes up quite a lot of room. Has anybody done anything similar already?

Soon as the rubber strap for mine arrives I'll take some pics too. No point yet

Just paid for mine so it should be on my sweaty anticipant wrist in the next day or two, will get the camera ready

rhack1, how do you think these would hold up against water? Have you taken a look at the seals inside the case, or run them through any sort of pressure test? I doubt my reps would ever get wetter than a splash of rain but it'd be nice to know that one of my "seamasters" at least is worthy of being submerged in the sea! And at the price these are going for I'd feel fairly comfortable wearing one in the pool, waterproof test successful of course...

Ditto, I get the feeling he's going to be an extremely popular guy as soon as he lands on UK soil again

He has a photo gallery but that seems to be out of date / not complete. I sent him a PM.

Mine's on order

Argh black or orange, what to get! I guess life is full of tough choices :-) I should prob start a new topic but whilst on this one, does anybody know where I could get a black rubber strap for this? I'm thinking PT might be a good place to look but if anybody knows elsewhere (UK or EU preferably) please let me know

y'know, I promised myself I wouldn't be diving in and buying loads of reps after I got my SMP, but for that price I have GOT to get me one of these

Tried that, sadly does nothing - it's not the tightness upon rotation that's the problem, and bending the spring only seems to help with that sort. It's the tightness with which the bezel actually clips onto, and stays on, the watch face with. Especially when I read other posts here about users having to strongly pry the bezel off with butter knives and suchlike - when mine pops off now as easy as a Krispy Kreme coffee lid! (I discovered that when sat in the back of a car recently and the lid popped off, spilling the hot steamy beverage all over my crotch. Wasn't amused. Off topic anyway! )

Have emailed seller to see what they can do. Hopefully can get it sorted, and hopefully won't have any more 'teething' troubles with this watch and reps in general! Thanks for all the answers and help by the way DemonSlayer, you seem to crop up on most of the random questions I've had recently

OK, I have to presume there's nothing I can do here since there's definitely no problem with me installing it properly. I don't know why it doesn't snap into place with any reassuring grip but have to assume it's either a poorly-made bezel or poorly made watch face. Think I'm either going to have to try a new bezel or just glue the current one in place and replace functionality for sturdiness!

Yeah that's basically what I've tried, seems no matter what I do though the bezel just pings out of the case far too easily now!

So I was stupidly messing around with my SMP and managed to ping the bezel off. No problem, I though, nothing seemed damaged, it just clips back in again. So I wrapped the metal click spring around the bezel and clipped it back in. Trouble is that now I can literally pop the whole bezel off just by running my little finger under the edge of it. Not good! Am I resigned to having to glue the whole bezel in place now to stop it falling off? I'm wondering how it stayed on there in the first place since I didn't seem to damage anything...

Thanks guys, I can clearly see the differences now and would have to agree that based on the evidence I've seen here, it's definitely a clone. I've emailed my repair guy asking what he would charge to drop a gen 2824-2 into the watch should he deem the current movement not serviceable, so I guess I'll play this one by ear. Thanks again!