zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

Few days ago, I went downtown just to look at some watches. One thing I noticed, was that
one of smp (bond) really was eye catching.
It didn´t catch my attention because of its well known visually high quality model, but at a closer look, I found quite many visual "odd" stuff:

1. The whilte lines surrounding the luminous material - Almost no hours markers were properly set into the center of the white line.
I looked at the watch in a distance of 30 cm, and
saw this immediately. Especially the twelve mark, the white line in outer/right side of Luminova was totally missing! Because of the luminova set too far to right, you could actually see a black stripe without the luminova on the left side. (where the luminova was supposed to be in the first place)
Other round hour markers showed similar problem.
Even though you don´t examine your watch under a loupe, it is noticable.

2. date window - Either the date window or the white line surrounding it was not properly adjusted/painted, because there was no rectangular uniform when comparing the window "edge" and the white line painted.

Ofcourse, bezel markers not lining up perfectly etc, is fully acceptable and probably technically almost impossible to set properly, but immediate visual "dark spots" on dial is somehow strange.

If I were to encounter this specific watch I saw, at the streets, I´d certainly question myself if it was genuine.
This watch I saw at a authorized dealer.
Fortunately, These kind of visual "flaws" isn´t common (I think!)
But, my question is : Does omega make any *visual*
quality controls of their manufactured watches?
Surey, I don´t have any doubts that they make rigurous control regarding COSC standard etc, but
I think visual quality is at least very important.

Please don´t consider my post as a whining, it isn´t. I´m just being little curious.

rgds, Keo