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As John said, the Co-Axial movement is still very new to the market.
As with all brand new movements, some weaknesses could occur that can only be spotted through on the field experiences. Since the Co-Axial movement is so new, I'm sure that there will be improvements made to it, and in the long run, I'm sure it will become a classic. I'm very happy with my Omega Co-Axial movement. I could have waited another 10 years in order to make sure that all the initial weaknesses are fixed, but frankly, who wants to wait that long? Definitely, not me! :-)

Common man

: Hi

: Advantage of the Piguet 1150 is its
: construction with very high tolerances and
: great power reserve (near 4 days). The
: piguet 1150 has a triovis precision
: adjusting system which far superior to the
: etachron found on the eta 2892-2. The piguet
: 1150 is existing since 1987 and it has been
: widely used by Blancpain and Breguet.The
: piguet 1150 is a true marvel of quality I
: suggest you to read the article written by
: Walt Odets on Timezone. About accuracy the
: accuracy of the 1150 is simply amazing.
: About the 33xx, the problems were depicted by
: Chuck Maddox a long time ago and on his blog
: as well. I think those problems are specific
: to the U.S. because I have never heard
: problems of 33xx powered chrono in Europe.
: Many persons think that the 33xx is based on
: a piguet 1185, that is wrong. The 33xx is
: based on a specific movement made by
: Frederic Piguet for Omega, the movement in
: question the 33xx is based on is the
: Frederic Piguet 1285 ES (es means special
: edition) de Luxe. The difference between the
: two movements? the 1185 has a savonnte form
: and the 1285 a lepine form.the 1185 has 37
: jewels and is 21600bph and the 1285 has 33
: jewels and is 28800bph. The 1185 is built
: since 1987 and it is one of the highest
: grade column wheel chrono movements. The
: 1285 was introduced in 2001 as the base of
: the calibre 33xx and uniquely used by Omega
: who owns part of Piguet. The problems
: according to what I read on the other forums
: seems to be less frequent than before.
: I think what makes a watch accurate is its
: adjustement. My old 1973 markIV chrono runs
: +5/+9 sec per week and it is fitted with a
: lemania 1340 based movement. My watchmaker
: has a 1989 rolex sea dweller with a 3135
: that runs +0.5sec per 4 days. The extreme
: quality of the adjustement makes a watch
: accurate,coaxial or not.The best accuracy I
: have seen with a vintage omega movement was
: +1.5 sec per 2 days with a calibre 551. The
: adjustement is vital when you want a watch
: to be accurate if it is done very well then
: the watch will be very accurate but of
: course some movements have a better tendancy
: to be more accurate over the long run than
: others.

: regards

: georges