I saw your post today, djt...
..and I got exactly the same problem with my Seamaster chrono pro. About three weeks ago I sent it to service here in Sweden for the second time, and I'm still waiting for it. They did not scratch the watch the first time, but they did not fix it either. This is what I posted in another watch forum:
"I have an Omega SMP Chrono (7750) wich I bought new in Oct. 2002. The second hand on the chrono didn't reset properly, and in May the watch stoped running even when I was wearing it. I sent it in for service in Jun, and got it back thursday evning this week ( after 10 weeks). Now the second hand was reseting. I wound it manually and put it on my wrist and listened to the rotor after shaking the watch: the rotor freewheeling in one direction, and making a "ratching" sound when going in the winding direction. Good. But when I did this again after about 3 hours (still wearing the watch) the sound in the winding direction was exactly like before service: I can hear the rotor freewheeling but when it changes to the winding direction it just "fall down" with a klucking sound. On friday the same sound. On saturday the same sound. Saturday evning, ~50h after putting the watch on my wrist it stoped running. The rotor had in fact not done any winding at all when I was wearing the watch! What I also noticed before sending it in was that after winding it manually, (5 twists would do), the ratching sound was there again, but only for about 2-3 hours."
Regards
Magnus
