Omega watch

[brickyParticipant @bricky]

I own an Omega DeVille Prestige automatic cronometer .The escapement was designed by an Englishman and was taken up by Omega .My watch loses .7 of a second a day all year long without deviation.I have never bothered about rating the watch as this is near enough for me.The English inventor was George Daniels and I think it is great that after a lifetime of designing this escapement that an internation company fitted it to their brand.

Frank

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

At the moment my day watch is a Tag Heur which is very heavy to wear.

I got a Seiko solar titanium about 10 years ago, much much lighter than a steel watch

Yet to see any strap pins go too, the steel watch I had decades ago got through a few

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

I've never treated myself to a "posh" watch, for fear of damaging it while in the workshop or out fishing or shooting. However, I do have my father's Tissot Seamaster I inherited when he died in 1974. I've read that Tissot watches were made in the Omega factory when it was bought in the late 1960s, and the mechanisms were pretty much the same. Since '74 I used the watch for about 20 years, then retired it to spend most of its time gathering dust in a drawer. But last Sunday, when I tried to subtract the hour on my cheap Accurist, there was a nasty noise inside it and it ceased to function. I brought the old Tissot out of retirement, and it's kept absolutely perfect time. It seems that even moderately good quality is a wise investment.

[thaiguzziParticipant @thaiguzzi]

Posted by Sam Longley 1 on 31/10/2017 13:21:35:

My Rolex ( 1963) has to be laid on one side or the other at night depending on whether it is gaining or loosing time to allow it to compensate. Still does not keep very good time though. I paid 5 euros for a watch in Dieppe a few years back & it keeps perfect time. price included a spare battery which I have not needed yet.

Does not quite have the "bling" though

Ha! My auto mechanical Oris goes through periods of either gaining 4-5 minutes per week or losing 4-5 minutes a week. Purchased 2000, last serviced 2007, recommended service intervals every 3 years.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Omega and Tissot are the same make really, Now Omega is witholding spares to non distributors and the prices have hone up extraordinarily.

There are some very up and coming watch makers/names, but prices are off the Richter scale. One thing was mentioned, 'Bling' Instead of being functional in use and looks they seem to be all singing and dancing like smart phones!

I like a plain functional watch, no day/ date for me. I often browse the watch displays to try find a nice looking useful watch.

Clive

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

I have a Rotary Aquaplunge, bought for £1 at a car boot, an Accurist analogue quartz which I like, a Casio Waveceptor which I can't gt onto GMT and a chronometer lookalike, which tells only the time, but cost only £3 from Amazon.

Geoff

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

I have a Longines VHP watch which is alleged to be +/- 10 seconds per year. Have not bothered to verify this in day to day use.

[Roger Provins 2Participant @rogerprovins2]

I don't wear a watch at all. I've no need for one since I retired and I can guess the time to the next meal fairly accurately.

Rog

[jaCK HobsonParticipant @jackhobson50760]

Gaining 5 seconds a day is within COSC certificaiton limits so isn't bad. It could be tricky to get it better and easy to make it worse.

[larry PhelanParticipant @larryphelan54019]

My watch was bought for 5 Euro in a local shop. Not "Top of the range",but then,neither am I.

So what if a watch gains or loses 5 seconds a day? it,s not going to make much difference to anyone.

Nice to have things "Dead on" but I dont think I,d worry too much about it.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by jaCK Hobson on 01/11/2017 10:27:25:

Gaining 5 seconds a day is within COSC certificaiton limits so isn't bad. It could be tricky to get it better and easy to make it worse.

Love this forum and the Internet! I had a vague idea that the Swiss had a standard but couldn't remember what it was called. This morning I find Jack has scratched that itch by naming COSC. Thanks Jack.

Looking COSC up on Wikipedia is 'Quite Interesting' too. There's a table showing that quartz watches are expected to outperform mechanical movements across the board by a factor of about 10. There's one exception: quartz COSC certified watches are also expected to withstand 200 shocks equivalent to 100 X gravity. For some reason they don't shock test the mechanical movements …

Dave

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by larry Phelan on 01/11/2017 10:38:50:

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Nice to have things "Dead on" but I dont think I,d worry too much about it.

Curious isn't it that we all wander around wearing ultra-accurate timepieces but very few bother to set them properly, and far far fewer need that level of accuracy.

Even more odd is people spending a small fortune on a high quality mechanical watch that doesn't keep time as well as a 5 Euro cheapie. I 'm not claiming the moral high-ground, I'd be tempted to splash out if I won the lottery!

Dave

[blowlampParticipant @blowlamp]

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Dave, you might ask why people build beautifully-machined and well-presented steam engines, when they are nothing better than an inefficient relic of a bygone age. It's because they are wonderful things to own and admire – just like precision mechanical watches. And like you, if I won the lottery………….

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Ah Clive

"I like a plain functional watch, no day/ date for me"

Just you wait!

With age I've found the date useful for some time but, increasingly, the day is becoming more useful too.

We live out in the sticks and nothing much marks the passing of time ( other than the seasons with the change of landscape) At one time one kept a track to see favourite TV progs but, with the advent of "YouView", pretty much everything is recorded and watched later. I know we go out for "supplies" on Mondays and Fridays so the day IS useful – without it we could starve!

Norman

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

About 25 years ago I was tasked to automate the starting and stopping of a conveyor. This was controlled by a PLC and had about 20 operators working on it. Shop stewards keep a very close eye on start and stop times and PLC clocks drift terribly in this case about 8 seconds a day. The MSF atomic clock broadcast seemed to be quite accurate so I built a receiver and decoded the slow code in the PLC. This worked very well and even the stewards were sort of happy. Sometimes seconds do matter as this saved quite a few cars every week from being lost due to late starts and early finishes.

Mike

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

When I had my joinery business I was asked to install a shop front in the Burlington arcade for Lacroix. Whilst doing it I took a walk to the shop selling Rolex watches. I was amazed to see the B & Q 99p factor still prevalent even at those prices. There was a watch for sale at £ 39,999-00 One would have thought that they would have put it at £ 40K so that the buyer could have said he had a £40K watch instead of a £39K one

The cheaper ones at £ 11999-99 was even more blatant & I immediately thought of buying a litre of fuel.

Oh!!!– and as for Lacroix— Lacroix himself visited one day & told the foreman that he could have anything in the shop at half price. But as the cheapest thing at the time was a tie at £ 100-00 he declined the offer.

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

I was in the bar above the harbour masters office in Boulogne & was talking to a doctor's wife . Also in the bar were her husband & the crew of his yacht.

She said he had something special. She called him over to show me his Rolex watch & on the back it was engraved

Rolex Fastnet Race 2005 Winner overall

Considering owners spend £100's of k's trying to win one of those it has to be something really special. He was proud of his French crew but just as proud of his British designed & built boat. He actually had a couple of class wins & Rolex watches for those, but this was his crowning glory. No amount of money can buy a winner's watch as many a millionaire will tell you

 

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 01/11/2017 14:45:01

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