Omega

Happy Thanksgiving all!  I received a wonderful family gift from my aunt after Thanksgiving dinner tonite - a vintage steel Omega Seamaster that was given to her husband by my grandfather in 1962.  I am a vintage JLC and Patek guy but totally new to Omega. I had a few questions for any vintage Seamaster experts out there willing to help:

Hi !


So basically you can find some answers here : www.omegawatches.com e

And if you want to know a bit more about your watch, you can go there aswell : www.omega-fanatic.com p

For the two others questions, i can't help you with that. I know that you can send your watch to Omega and they can repair pretty much everything even take care of an very very old dial.

Welcome to the vintage omega world

Hi and welcome,

Do not consider to send the watch to Omega - it might cost you more than the actual value of the watch.

Every well trained watchmaker can offer you a service for a fraction of those costs Omega asks.

I would have it locally done...

Pls post pictures of your inherited piece!

regards

erich

Yes, i forgot to mention that, it's very expensive to send the watch to omega for repair. I have a seamaster cosmic who wasnt running very well (if i may say so) and ask for a devis in Omega store. They asked me 3 times the price of the watch to repair it (only revision)...

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1. Yes, Omega offers an Extract of the Archives, similar to the services offered by JLC and Patek. 

http://www.omegawatches.com/spirit/history/extract-of-the-archives

Only 80CHF vs. 420 for JLC, a bargain, I suppose.  Then again, they used to do it for free as a courtesy.

2. Agree with the others.  Omega has a bad habit of using whatever replacement part will fit, rather than the correct parts for things like crowns, dials and hands.  Then, to add insult to injury, they charge several times what a local expert will charge.

3. Once you've had the watch opened up and have recorded the case reference number, you can go to the Omega website (Omegawatches.com) and they have a vintage database there. It isn't complete and doesn't have pictures of every watch listed, particularly those models made specifically for the US market. 

http://www.omegawatches.com/spirit/history/vintage-omegas/vintage-watches-database

Hope this helps,

gatorcpa

This message has been edited by gatorcpa on 2013-11-29 11:03:43 This message has been edited by gatorcpa on 2013-11-29 11:06:12

Gatorcpa - you helped me immensely!  I am looking fwd to seeing my watchmaker next week to get the reference numbers and begin service. 

A quick update for everyone -- both watches are in the hands of a terrific local watchmaker to service (based on everyone's advice here).  I also noted both movement numbers and case reference numbers.  I was able to locate my the gents piece on their database.  I was not able to locate the ladies piece.  I went to order Archieve for each piece only to discover that the Archieve service is not available to US customers!  Any suggestions?  Thanks all for the advice.
Best,
Miko