So after being told by my usual dealer to just go buy the genuine because the rep is a piece of shit morbid curiosity got the better of me and I bought this from the private sales section. I had a flawless transaction with the seller and the watch arrived two days after it was shipped in perfect condition, well as good as a rep gets anyway.
After aligning the bezel and checking the watch for defects I proceeded to inspect the chronograph pushers.
For those of you who have never played with the genuine the pushers have screw down locks for water resistance and on the rep these are purely decorative! to add insult to injury the pushers are pressed into the case with no retainer at all so they are free to fall back out. ok they are super glued, hardly a solution.
This is the part where I would normally insult the parentage of the people who designed and made this rep but I will take the high road and just think it to myself this time.
I suppose it's not really a big deal but for an extra ten dollars they could use real thread in screw down pushers and this would be fantastic watch!
Also apparently still a problem in reps is poor quality spring steel, the crown has a spring in it that allows you to screw it down while it freewheels and when you unscrew it it should pop out into the locked position so that you can wind and set the movement. The spring in the crown on this one is failing so you have to actually pull it out and hold it out to wind and set the watch. If this poor quality spring steel is used in the movement too it will surely lead to problems and early failure.
If you are the kind of person who can look at a shiny belt buckle for hours and be amused these problems won't bother you one bit but the devil is in the details and I would rather they spell Omega wrong and get the watch right than have these kinds of shortcuts show up on a watch!
