What watch do you wear?

That depends on the model.

A "fiddy" (PAM127) was about £4K new, now £10K or more. I'm not sure there are any others that stand out, other than the vintage stuff. I've paid little attention to Panerai for almost a decade.
 
I ended up getting the battery done in my Tag for a £25 plus £8 postage to a place in Aberdeen, found via eBay. Very quick turn around and it's nice to be wearing a watch, although I am missing my Bremont a lot.
 
The clasp on my Seamaster is playing up, the spring behind the bit you push to release the clasp seems to have failed - making the watch unwearable for fear of it falling off my wrist.

Omega store in Westfield have quoted £400+ to fix it plus service and it can take up to 8 weeks. This seems to be a very large amount to me (both time and money), can anyone recommend a place in London (west preferably) to get this fixed?

Many thanks
 
BongoHunter said:
The clasp on my Seamaster is playing up, the spring behind the bit you push to release the clasp seems to have failed - making the watch unwearable for fear of it falling off my wrist.

Omega store in Westfield have quoted £400+ to fix it plus service and it can take up to 8 weeks. This seems to be a very large amount to me (both time and money), can anyone recommend a place in London (west preferably) to get this fixed?

Many thanks
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You sure thats to fix it and not to replace it? You can buy a brand new one for not much more.
 
BongoHunter said:
The clasp on my Seamaster is playing up, the spring behind the bit you push to release the clasp seems to have failed - making the watch unwearable for fear of it falling off my wrist.

Omega store in Westfield have quoted £400+ to fix it plus service and it can take up to 8 weeks. This seems to be a very large amount to me (both time and money), can anyone recommend a place in London (west preferably) to get this fixed?

Many thanks
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True story:

I bought a Tag Link on the auction site and the strap was too big. I worked near Holborn so took a walk down to Goldsmiths (could have been Ernest Jones but it's not relevant to the point) on Fleet Street. They took a look and said it needed to go to Switzerland for the strap to be adjusted and that the watch needed a full service, quoting me around £400. I'd paid less than that so left the shop.

Across the road was a little dusty unimpressive watch shop called Alsal Watches. It's still there. They said they could do the adjustment while I waited and quoted me £15. So I waited.

A few minutes later, the sales assistant from the Goldsmiths came in with a watch to be adjusted.

Alsal Watches is still there. Take your Omega along there and I bet they can fix your strap.
 
MikeTimbers said:
True story:

I bought a Tag Link on the auction site and the strap was too big. I worked near Holborn so took a walk down to Goldsmiths (could have been Ernest Jones but it's not relevant to the point) on Fleet Street. They took a look and said it needed to go to Switzerland for the strap to be adjusted and that the watch needed a full service, quoting me around £400. I'd paid less than that so left the shop.

Across the road was a little dusty unimpressive watch shop called Alsal Watches. It's still there. They said they could do the adjustment while I waited and quoted me £15. So I waited.

A few minutes later, the sales assistant from the Goldsmiths came in with a watch to be adjusted.

Alsal Watches is still there. Take your Omega along there and I bet they can fix your strap.
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I suspect most of the £400 was for the service, though (which you didn’t get from the watch shop).
 
MikeTimbers said:
True story:

I bought a Tag Link on the auction site and the strap was too big. I worked near Holborn so took a walk down to Goldsmiths (could have been Ernest Jones but it's not relevant to the point) on Fleet Street. They took a look and said it needed to go to Switzerland for the strap to be adjusted and that the watch needed a full service, quoting me around £400. I'd paid less than that so left the shop.
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They were surely trying it on... they should still have been able to do the watch strap no problem. Muppets!
 
BongoHunter said:
The clasp on my Seamaster is playing up, the spring behind the bit you push to release the clasp seems to have failed - making the watch unwearable for fear of it falling off my wrist.

Omega store in Westfield have quoted £400+ to fix it plus service and it can take up to 8 weeks. This seems to be a very large amount to me (both time and money), can anyone recommend a place in London (west preferably) to get this fixed?

Many thanks
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The one on my PO failed, fixed it myself with a 5 quid watch toolkit from eBay and the part was about 20 quid from Omega I think.

https://forums.watchuseek.com/f20/seamaster-clasp-spring-replacement-how-576548.html#/topics/576548

It's really easy tbh
 
sorry guys for my homage watch but i like the look for under fifty quid

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Im trying to get out the apple eco system, got really accustomed to wearing my apple watch

So ordered a 6T and a Citizen AT4008-51E for a daily driver, don't think a smart watch enhanced my productivity in anyway that id miss it, but i didn't want to daily wear the Tag

Does anyone have any experience with the Citizen, ive read so many good things, just wondering if anyone had anything negative about it - more so im aware
 
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