Took my watch in today for the upmteenth time as the strap keeps falling to bits,fair play to the shop as they have repaired and replaced pins but today when out riding a canal towpath, my watch went awol found after retracing our route.
So said to them how about a new strap hoping they would do one @ cost Nope £400 said I would leave it and to give me a quote for new pins all the way round. Just checked online and the cheapest I could find was £295.
Not very happy even though I have worn it daily for the last 4 years surely the straps should last longer than that!

Yes, that is crap. Plenty will be along shortly to tell you how their £7 casio is going strong…

Mind you did you expect a new strap to be cheap?

As requested:

thats not good – is worth an email to Omega?

the strap on my Seamaster is 12 years old now -I’ve had no problems so it has to be worth asking

I am sorry to indulge in schadenfreude, but I do often wonder whether the sheer quality of an obscenely expensive watch means that it is a good investment.

😉

I’ve used this chap for my Tag before. Might be worth a look if you have to fork out for it.
clicky

I have had mine for nearly 5 years and no problems. Get on to Omega. I found watches of Switzerland the cheapest place for Seamaster maitenance. One bit of advice is dont wear it on the bike. I bought a cheap rubber one for that purpose. A G Shock or something is propably more than suitable.

PISS MYSELF laughing at ENFTH and cynical al 😆

Nick one out of the post ?

can you not buy an animal watch strap!?

The stupid thing is that I can get you a replica with a bracelet that is identical to ‘gen’ for about a £150 – you can just bin the movement…

(they’re good enough copies to be have links removed at an Omega main dealer without raising an eyebrow)

Postierich, I had Seamasters and realised after cracking the screen etc (difficult but I knew how to fall down stairs etc) that posh watches as for sedatory/dress times. Every other time a Suunto will suffice.

Blimey…hope mine does not go! The spring on the clasp went on mine about 2 years ago, and even then they charged me £100 for a new clasp. Wrote them a big letter of complaint (Omega UK) but they were’nt interested. The jeweller who i bought it from (Beaverbrooks) even backed me up. Lovely watches, crap aftersales…

Omega Seamaster = Swatch – Obsolete after a year I was told. My Seamater binned 🙁

Get a Casio 🙂

Ouch! Had mine 8 years only problems are the orange on the second hand has faided and it lost time, couple of minutes a week that kind of pissed me off as thats the whole point of a watch to keep time?? Wore it every day till about two months ago and have retired it to its’ box, couldn’t face sending it away for a service due to the cost and chance of losing it in the post, now using a casio g-shock, the one that is solar and gets its’ time check via the radio, spot on and deadly accurate,
PJ.

Where’s the buy cheap buy twice brigade now ?

Ouch, dont like reading this thread after shelling out on one last year. Mind you I shopped around and bagged one for £860. I’m hoping its going to ‘see me out’

As for Swatch owning Omega, well they own a lot of watch manufacturers dont they? Also as far as I understand most Swiss watch houses dont make all of the components in their watches anyway.

£860 for a watch? 😯

Swatch saved the swiss watch industry, the guys a billionaire, they bought Omega as jewel in the crown and to save to from the Japanese as they’d offered £400m or something like that in the 70s/80s

Nowt wrong with swatch.

Well I was given some money for 20 years service at work and I wanted a keep sake and I’ve always wanted one. You know how it is, money burning a hole in your pocket, you really NEED one etc etc etc!
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No nowt wrong with swatch

I had my Omega for my 21st Birthday.I’m now 47 and despite a couple of motorbike accidents and falling down the stairs(not drunk and with a baby in my arms)it’s still going strong. I’ve got a Casio for when i’m mountain biking.
Post script,my Dad had his Omega for his 21st….still going strong,he’s now 74. Mine is a proper wind-up watch,none of this battery bollocks 😀

If you like inaccuracy then I guess that’s ok. :p

I had a thread on here about a week ago re Omega service. The advice given was aim for the top, and use humour. Very good advice as it turns out.

I found the name of the top Omega bloke in the uk simply by asking the jeweller, and the power of google gave me his email address easy peasy. 1 humour tinged email to the guy and everything was sorted.

Worked for me anyway.

Where’s the buy cheap buy twice brigade now

Not anymore, I remember shopping abroad and you’d buy a full sized automatic Seamaster for say £550

I’m wearing an Omega Flightmaster that’s almost 20 years older than I am and still going strong…

http://www.thewatchforum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=39293&hl=seamaster+braclet

Worth asking if this is still for sale?

cheers

Paul.

maybe go for the rubber version, which incidentally you can get a replica of on ebay for £20.

My everyday Rolex Oyster is from the 1930’s, beat that!

I also have a seiko and citizen from late 1950’s.

cynic-al, is your Oyster one of the Swiss-made or the Canadian-Franchised Oysters?

i’ve got a 38 year old speedmaster i got it serviced by a good chap in bristol for 130 quid (it’s a wind up model) new glass 30 quid new bezel as old one had scratches 60 quid – ebayed the old one for 45 quid. just use a decent watchsmith it’s a lot cheaper! oh and it only keeps perfect time.

I don’t like the “I told you so” comments that you sometimes get on here but… there is something in the Seamaster manual saying that they are not suitable for impact sports. I’ve got a G-Shock for messing about in because I’d hate to break my Omega.

A mate of mine wears his Seamaster whilst riding. It makes me wince.

I have one of those £7 Casio watches and the strap snapped.I called into the local key cutting/shoe fixer/watch repair kiosk and the guy says that a new Casio strap will be £14 and will need to be ordered in. Ended up with a new non Casio strap from Argos but even that was £4.

Surely there must be a website for sad watch poseurs? No point in clogging up mtb bandwith this drivel…

hora – Member

cynic-al, is your Oyster one of the Swiss-made or the Canadian-Franchised Oysters?

I have no idea. How could I tell?

Swatch own a whole heap of watch companies, Omega being a tiny part of their empire!

They own;

Balmain
Blancpain
Breguet
Certina
cK/Calvin Klein
Endura
ETA/Valjoux (movements)
Fendi
Flik-Flak
Glashütte Original
Glashütte Union
Hamilton
Jacquet-Droz
Lanco
Lemania (movements)
Leon Halot
Longines
Mido
Omega
Pierre
F. Piguet (movements)
Rado
Swatch
Tissot
Unitas
Universo (watch hands)

Generally, customer service is pretty good amongst the Swatch group companies, but then the main gripe in the top post seems to be about price? Nothing in the Omega world is cheap!

How about a nice custom leather strap from this guy?

Straps

*googles* – yes it appears to be a low rent Canadian one hora.

Watch bloke is making me some new steel pins for the strap which will be slighty thicker due to the wear on the links.

Only £35 lets see how long they last,its an everyday watch and I,m pretty active hence the wear,girl in the Jewellers always frowns when I go in wearing it when I pick up the post from there.

Rich

Aphex,inaccuracy? only if you forget to wind it up. A great watch,that I expect to outlast me.