zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am the proud owner of an Omega Seamaster professional calibre 2500 co-axial that I bought from an AD in May 2007. Since then the watch has run at incerdible accuracy gaining about 1 second a day only. However on 2 occasions there has been a problem:

In late december I noticed one day that the watch was 90 minutes late. I always wear the watch (usually night time as well) but on this occasion I had taken it off for about 3 hours. I reset it and subsequently it run to the same accuracy as before until 2 days ago.

Again after taking it off for 2 hours or so noticed the watch was 45 minutes late (I know as a fact it was right on time a few hours earlier). I reset it to the correct time and monitored it but noticed it was losing 2 minutes an hour. I decided to manually rewind it (about 15 turns before I hear the click) and since then it has been running beautifuly.

What could be the problem? It seems that on both occasions the watch was low on 'energy' since once rewind it run perfectly. But these watches are supposed to have a 44 hour store of energy? I repeat that I rarely take the watck off my wrist. I am not the most active person in the world (I drive to work, have an office job, do not exercise) but I dont think the watch should be low on energy because of that?

Please advise what you think.

Many thanks

Tom