So here is how the story starts.
My v5 42mm orange Planet Ocean is my favorite and most expensive Rep.
There has been a small bit of fuzz/hair at the #1 indice, I have been trying to ignore it, but recently the second hand caught a piece of the hair and has become all too annoying for me to ignore.
So finally I decide that I am going to tear down my watch and rid myself of this annoyance to my otherwise favorite/perfect rep.
So the tear down goes very well and all is sunshine and butterflies with the world. In fact as soon as I clean the last speck off the dial and out of the case a beam of light shines through my window and lights up the Omega dial.
Hey I could throw it back together and be perfectly happy but then I get a thought...... the watch is apart I now have the tools I need to perform a basic waterproof on it.
So I grease all the gaskets and reassemble without the movement and place the watch in my home made pressure tester.
So I go through and only a few bubbles appear from the crystal at the 50... not too bad I am satisfied that I can now swim with the thing.
So of course I think that everything is fine and dandy in the wonderful world of disney.... I fecking hate being wrong.
Ok so I lift the dial/movement up so I can take one last close look and make sure there isn't any dust that settled and it happens..... I friggen fumbled it!
Dial and movement drop like a piece of buttered toast, butter side down, in my case it was dial and hands down and they bounce off the edge of the watch case......
I hope my neighbor's kids weren't outside as even with my window closed everyone in a 4 block radius must have heard me swear. It was so loud that my dog became startled, jumped straight up and sprinted 2 feet away... right into the wall with a pathetic furry WHUMP before skittering away down the stairs.
So my perfect little PO with its new water resistance and clean dial, isn't so perfect anymore.
Nice chip at :59, scratched up second hand
light mark to the right of :47
Hard to see it but the indice at 40 is marred and scuffed, as well as another view of the damage to the second hand.
Ouch!
Assembled it doesn't look terrible but it is of course instantly obvious to me.
Lastly the now damaged wristy. :facepalm:
So it went from a little annoyance that I was living with to a perminate defect in the dial. Son of a...
Still not even sure how I lost my grip but I hope that the carnage is at least enjoyable for the forum otherwise I would be pissed off, have a damaged watch without the funds to repair it, and it would have been for nothing....
Oh and guess what, no moral to this story as it was a complete fluke.. well there you go.
I didn't want to have to do anything to this watch for a long time, don't have the money anyway, but now when I look at it on my wrist it is mocking me, laughing at me.
So coming hopefully next year when I may be able to afford it, Gen dial and hands will be getting swapped in to replace the damaged ones and to match the Gen strap.
The video of the pressure test ended up being very dark and rather boring but decided I would include it anyway.
My v5 42mm orange Planet Ocean is my favorite and most expensive Rep.
There has been a small bit of fuzz/hair at the #1 indice, I have been trying to ignore it, but recently the second hand caught a piece of the hair and has become all too annoying for me to ignore.
So finally I decide that I am going to tear down my watch and rid myself of this annoyance to my otherwise favorite/perfect rep.
So the tear down goes very well and all is sunshine and butterflies with the world. In fact as soon as I clean the last speck off the dial and out of the case a beam of light shines through my window and lights up the Omega dial.
Hey I could throw it back together and be perfectly happy but then I get a thought...... the watch is apart I now have the tools I need to perform a basic waterproof on it.
So I grease all the gaskets and reassemble without the movement and place the watch in my home made pressure tester.
So I go through and only a few bubbles appear from the crystal at the 50... not too bad I am satisfied that I can now swim with the thing.
So of course I think that everything is fine and dandy in the wonderful world of disney.... I fecking hate being wrong.
Ok so I lift the dial/movement up so I can take one last close look and make sure there isn't any dust that settled and it happens..... I friggen fumbled it!
Dial and movement drop like a piece of buttered toast, butter side down, in my case it was dial and hands down and they bounce off the edge of the watch case......
I hope my neighbor's kids weren't outside as even with my window closed everyone in a 4 block radius must have heard me swear. It was so loud that my dog became startled, jumped straight up and sprinted 2 feet away... right into the wall with a pathetic furry WHUMP before skittering away down the stairs.
So my perfect little PO with its new water resistance and clean dial, isn't so perfect anymore.
Nice chip at :59, scratched up second hand
light mark to the right of :47
Hard to see it but the indice at 40 is marred and scuffed, as well as another view of the damage to the second hand.
Ouch!
Assembled it doesn't look terrible but it is of course instantly obvious to me.
Lastly the now damaged wristy. :facepalm:
So it went from a little annoyance that I was living with to a perminate defect in the dial. Son of a...
Still not even sure how I lost my grip but I hope that the carnage is at least enjoyable for the forum otherwise I would be pissed off, have a damaged watch without the funds to repair it, and it would have been for nothing....
Oh and guess what, no moral to this story as it was a complete fluke.. well there you go.
I didn't want to have to do anything to this watch for a long time, don't have the money anyway, but now when I look at it on my wrist it is mocking me, laughing at me.
So coming hopefully next year when I may be able to afford it, Gen dial and hands will be getting swapped in to replace the damaged ones and to match the Gen strap.
The video of the pressure test ended up being very dark and rather boring but decided I would include it anyway.
Exactly the kind of thing I'd do as I'm a clumsy bugger too 
