by Sam Tamborello | Oct 30, 2026 | Ask TamboWatches, Tambo's Tips
A customer recently called me about an Omega he had just bought online. “Hey, I picked up a vintage Seamaster 300. I wanted to see about sending it in to have the movement serviced and gone through.” I told him, “Send me detailed macro photos of the dial, case...
by Sam Tamborello | Oct 29, 2026 | Ask TamboWatches, Tambo's Tips
If your Omega Speedmaster chronograph stops short of or resets past the 12 o’clock mark, don’t panic. And don’t keep winding it, thinking it needs more power to reset. Ninety percent of the time, an off-center chronograph hand is caused by a loose hand tube slipping...
by Sam Tamborello | Oct 17, 2026 | Ask TamboWatches
The Japan import reality: your Speedmaster arrives on a steel bracelet that is three links too short, so you put it on leather just to wear it. An Omega listed by a seller in Japan can look like a bargain. Sometimes the asking price is hundreds less than a comparable...
by Sam Tamborello | Oct 16, 2026 | Ask TamboWatches
You wear your Omega all day, take it off before bed, and set it on the nightstand. The next morning, you find that it stopped at 3:15 AM. Your first thought may be that something is broken and you’re looking at a repair bill. Before you get to that point, I’d check...
by Sam Tamborello | Oct 13, 2026 | Ask TamboWatches
Before you stress over your watch’s timing, let’s get the obvious out of the way: a mechanical watch is not a cell phone. If you check your watch against an atomic clock every morning and get bent out of shape because it gained 10 or 15 seconds over a couple of days,...
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