Watch Omega - Customer reviews - Omega Men's Speedmaster Professional Mechanical Chronograph Watch #3570.50.00

Manufacturer: Omega

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Name: Robert Orr Jr.
Location: Franklin TN
Date: 2007-12-04
Customer Rating: -

Summary: My last watch
Comment: When I graduated from college in 1966, my parents gave me a fine very slim gold Swiss watch. It didn't last a month in the Amazon. The stainless automatic Seiko I bought at the PX in Vietnam was stolen out of my car. Then I bought my last watch, the Omega Speedmaster Professional.

I was half way through law school when I bought it at Al's Pawn Shop in Nashville in 1974 for about $125, the most I could afford. A year later my wife gave me a tooled silver bracelet watch band for my birthday. It's the only watch I have worn since.

It has always been amazingly accurate. When it quits because I forgot to wind it, that means I have been too busy and I try to slow down. As a litigator, I use the stop watch function frequently to time my work. When it finally wore out after some 25 years, I sent it to an expert near Seattle I located online and he put it back into like new shape...for five times what I had paid for it.

In 1997 I saw the same watch in a store window in Geneva. I made a note of the price in Swiss francs and later calculated it cost around $3500 in US dollars. That's when I realized my treasured watch had probably been stolen and fenced at Al's Pawn Shop all those years before. Until then I had thought I was merely the beneficiary of a man down on his luck who needed money to get home.

To see the exact same watch on the wrist of the space suit at the Huntsville Space Museum and playing a critical role in the movie, Apollo 13, gives me a funny sense of pride at my uncanny good luck to have a watch I will never replace at such a low price. On a subconscious level I hope the satisfaction the watch has given me for these past 30+ years is somehow sensed by the owner from whom it was stolen and he is pleased. Especially since he had it adequately insured.

Name: Mr 3Putt
Location:
Date: 2006-02-22
Customer Rating: -

Summary: What time is it???
Comment: I've had this watch for 4 years. It looks great, but mechanically it's been a disappointment. It has never kept good time. Plus, I had to have it "fixed" twice. The first time it was 4 days out of the 1 year warranty, it cost me $85 to get it "unfrozen".

A few years later, the stem got bound up and wouldn't turn. Another trip to my authorized Omega dealer costs me $200.

The watch is working fine, but still loses about 2 minutes a day. Imagine, $1,800 for a watch you have to set everyday. Buy yourself the entire Timex collection for that price. You'll have 150 watches that work!

Name: G Fresh
Location: Massachusetts
Date: 2006-07-28
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Always wanted one - Disappointed by what I got...
Comment: Since I was a boy, I wanted one of these watches. When I spent 6 weeks in Switzerland in 1972, I hucked my Mom crazy to buy me this watch. Instead, she did get me an Omega deVille stainless design chronograph which reminded me of the Moon watch and cost only a fraction as much. This watch needed multiple repairs during the 1970's and cost more in repairs by several fold than the original purchase. I retired it and it sits in a jewelry box for the last 25 years, unworn.

Fast forward to the late 1990's with the stock market boom and I finally got what I had wanted for so long - this Moon watch! I wore it with enormous pride for about a year and a half until it broke, while winding it, and that lead to the revelation that repair was expensive and inconvenient. It had kept such poor time, losing two or more minutes a day, that I boxed it on my dresser and it sits there to this day unworn, broken. A deep disappointment...

Oddly, I spied a Wenger Swiss Army chonograph in stainless at a large retailer that had style and substance and was electronic to keep perfect time and cost $100!

I still wear that today after 6 years and one battery change.

Watch out what you wish for - it may be more desirable in the mind than on the wrist!

Name: D. Druker
Location: WI, USA
Date: 2008-07-17
Customer Rating: -

Summary: The Value is not here.
Comment: I have two speedmasters and have had them for about 8 and 5 years respectively. They both have the same attibutes, they run slow after being serviced by Omega, the bracelets -- the pins fall out of them [they don't use better threaded type screws], the sliding clasps just don't stand up. Omega does not make the movements for these watches, ETA makes the majority of the automatics. You are buying what you believe is an authentic watch from the ground up but its not the 'case', you are buying only the 'case'. Omega is a Swatch company, and you can buy them anywhere, heavily discounted. As you are aware Swatch makes costume jewelry quartz throwaways. This corportate link degrades from from the value of the watch. I have owned two Rolex watches, one since 1984 and the other since 1995 both bought new. They are superior in quality, time accuracy, look, finish and value. They run for years after servicing and keep running fast within tolerance-- about +1 to +6 seconds/day. You will be getting a much very value with the Rolex, so just spend the money and enjoy it. Rolex movements are great and the reputation for customer service is flawless. The bracelets are very good. They protect their name and their dealerships are hand choosen. This value means greater pride to own the best, and why spend this much money without pride & heritage. Go to Rolex.com and read about how they build their movements and the extreme detail to attention. If you own an Omega and enjoy it thats fine.

Name: Trevor Walker
Location: cali
Date: 2008-12-16
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Be Careful
Comment: I was sold a FAKE omega speedmaster!!! The seller had no pictures, just a stock file photo and when it arrived it was a horribly made copy! It took a month but amazon credit my account!!!

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