kernow Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 My gen Omega Seamaster GMT has just crapped out on me. Luckily I have several reps with me, including my rep Omega Great White. Looks like another one for Micky on my return to the UK. Who says that gens are better than reps :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephane Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 I'm with you. But then a mechanical watch is a ...mechanic isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mule play Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 BOOM, $400 repair job minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSTEEL Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Probably related to high humidity there G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
occb2 Posted November 19, 2015 Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Funny thing. My friend from works Omega crapped out on him last week. It started to lose time, about 5 mins a day and I told him it needed service. Then the other day no movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow Posted November 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2015 Hope it's not the humidity being a diver and all that lol. I can survive a few weeks without it no problem. I know the UK is only 2 hours ahead and my maths isn't that bad.* *normal beer disclaimer applies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marrickvilleboy Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Yeah thats the downside with mechanical watches - the service component of it is just so expensive.I'm not even wearing the vintage watches now as I know its just a wallet burn if it dies.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automatico Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 "Yeah that's the downside with mechanical watches - the service component of it is just so expensive."Official omega repair prices (this has been posted before): http://forums.timezone.com/index.php?t=tree&goto=7108527&rid=12189#msg_7108527 "I'm not even wearing the vintage watches now as I know its just a wallet burn if it dies...."The saving grace for 'common' vintage watches (Benrus, Bulova, Wittnauer etc) is that you can usually buy another complete watch for not much $$ but higher grade vintage watches and parts (GP, rolex, omega, JLC etc) are now out of the ball park in price. Rolex 1520/30/60/70 movement parts prices are so high now that I parked all my genuine rolex watches along with a couple completed 'Frankensteins' and removed the genuine movements from any unfinished F-stein projects and will either stick Etas in them or sell the cases and dials. As for the left over genuine rolex movements...I will either put them in genuine cases or sell the movements later. Pizzing $$ away on these projects had to stop.One good thing is I have gathered up some new and nos watches with swiss 28xx Etas in them so I am Ok on Etas. Otoh I have quite a few watches with DG, NN, Seagull etc movements and they are basically worthless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow Posted November 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 I'm not wanting to replace the movement as it's the original with the watch. Hopefully just a light service will get it running sweet again. Time will tell as for now it's on the back burner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surgcmdr@yahoo.com Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Buy a repSent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow Posted November 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Buy a rep Sent from my SM-N910T using Tapatalk Great idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyaboutwatches Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Yeah I second buying a rep. I would imagine gen watch components are rather expensive to replace, probably so much that you could buy an entire rep for the cost to replace the component in the gen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernow Posted November 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2015 lol, but have a 'few' reps already, including one of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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