zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

I'm not sure if right or wrong is even applicable to where you are, because it's so far out in left field that we can barely see you, and it looks to me like you might be bent over and holding on to your ankles.

A 66% discount on an Omega isn't even in the gray market area - the choices you probably have are pawned, broken and supposedly fixed, and stolen. Just as a reality check, ask yourself if you would ever give up an Omega that you really liked, unless it was so far gone that it wasn't repairable. I doubt anybody in here would consider doing that - (I can hear John Rochowicz saying: "You'll get my Omega off my wrist when you pry it out of my COLD, DEAD FINGERS!!")

So begin with, you are buying an Omega that is questionable at best, and there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that it's even close to new with a 66% discount.

Now comes the assumption that ANY of these "Authorized" repair services can find their bottom with both hands when it comes to fixing an Omega. So you send the watch in, and it comes back and works for maybe a year, and then quits. Are you going to send it back to the same idiots who couldn't do the job right the first time and get another round of incompetent fixing for free, or pay for the privelege of playing Russian Idiot Roulette with repair services 2, 3, and 4?

Bottom line - repair services aren't any more reliable than gray market dealers. They'll take a $250 repair job in whether they really can do it or not, because thery're going to get the money up front, and in the long run they will be money ahead by trying to fix anything that they are asked to.

I went through this with the original Omega Speedmaster I owned, and the last five years of that poor watch's life were spent in the hands of an assortment of idiots that call themselves watch repairmen in St. Paul , Minnesota.

How good is this 66% discount REALLY going to look to you in five years after you have lost all faith in the watch's ability to reliably keep time for more than a year, and you have nobody left to turn to for repair that you can trust???