zOwie Omega Discussion Forum

I've used an SMP quartz now for over four years and in that time I've found it loses, for me, one second every four to five weeks (and out of curiosity I was checking it). I've given mine an allmighty workout over the four years submitting it to the rigours of my work environment which is physically demmanding in environments which are inhospitable. It has been under the sea, in the air, in the sand, in the snow and it has been dinged and bumped here there and everywhere. That being so it looks very little worse than the day I bought it. It still keeps to within a second off every five weeks or so and I've had one battery change after four years (which was more about getting it checked for water tightness than anything). In the time I've had it I've asked serious questions of it and it's one of very few items of my every day equipment that I would tell you I trust 100% and it has never let me down.

I would reccomend it to anyone who needed equipment they can rely on.

Hope this helps

Pete J

: I've been considering an SMP auto, but I'm not
: sure if it wouldn't be better for me to just
: get a quartz SMP, especially considering the
: costs for servicing an auto every few years.

: I know Breitling has upgraded their quartz
: movements used in the Colt models to the
: Chronometer Certified Super Quartz, and am
: wondering how the Omega quartz movements
: compare?

: Have they made any improvements? How do they
: hold up? Anyone have one fail on them?

: Any help will be appreciated. Thank
: you,.....marcb