zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

1)georges: do you happen to be interested in
cars?

2)Anything mechanical can only last or perform if
it is well lubricated. Please don't tell me certain brand or modeled cars don't need oil
change. Isn't it the same with watches? Isn't that common sense?

3)I guess you should service your watch more
often if you want them last longer.

4)Well, I have no reason to doubt your experiences, but your argument about "in-house" is better than "non in-house" is logically
flawed. A product is better is because it's
indeed better in performance, rather not
because it's "in-house". I believe there are a lot of "in-house" craps too.

5)A product is priced at "mid-range" still does mean it has less performance. This is a pure production efficiency and marketing issue, not necessarily related to quality. A simple example: A watchmaker likes to design watches. He likes to use the best materials in the industry. But he can only make 2~3 watches each year, you can imagine the prices for his watches. Are you : serious thinking his watch will perform better than mass produced product? because his watch is marketed as build to last or of the best quality. You actually seem to be more easily to be persuaded by marketing hype, even though you said you are not.

1)I am interested in vintage cars (muscle cars, personal cars, full sizes and big prestige sedans)not much into the modern cars with lots of plasticplastic, too many assistance and too many electronics.

2)False the northstar engine from cadillac need an oild change every 165000km, the 500ci cadillac eldorado engine was tested over 900000km and needed an oil change every 80000km and this in 1970. What I am trying to explain you is that some movements have better tendancy to keep time and need less service than others.

3)My Omega hasn't an eta and if it ain't broken don't fix it.

4)No it isn't. Can you make the difference between a 175$ movement and an inhouse one? An inhouse movement is a better movement because it is designed to the maximum reliability accuracy and reliability.An inhouse movement uses higher grade parts than an eta.The only inhouse faulty movements I have seen was the cal 3000 from rolex as well as the very early series of cal 1000 from Omega. Besides that I would like to know what are the "inhouse craps" you are talking about.Name them and give valid points to be sure you know what you are talking about.

5)I am not talking about this, you are off topic again. I am talking about a firm not a watchmaker being able to make its own movement and offering the highest quality as possible. Union Glasshütte is a not so known firm but it produces watches with very well finished and extremey accurate movements, Jacques Etoile remanufactures the venus 178 to the highest grade available,Rolex is a manufacture who proposes wery solid watches with proven movements,Parmigiani Fleurier is also a manufacture manufacturing very high grade watches using some of the finest quality movements and I can go on and on.