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Broken Watch
- ronk
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My Seamaster (2225.80) has been running slow for a couple of years or more , 5mins a week -eventuallly it's stopped.
I dropped it into a local and well respected jeweller and it needs some work / parts on the balance assy then a re seal .
That's £550 to you sir!
The moral here is I suppose is if your quality watch starts to run slow - get it serviced .
The upside is that I've been using a cheapo Malayan Rolex look alike and it's been super accurate for such junk - 15secs a week gain!
I dropped it into a local and well respected jeweller and it needs some work / parts on the balance assy then a re seal .
That's £550 to you sir!
The moral here is I suppose is if your quality watch starts to run slow - get it serviced .
The upside is that I've been using a cheapo Malayan Rolex look alike and it's been super accurate for such junk - 15secs a week gain!
You don't stop playing when you get old - You get old when you stop playing!
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
- Behr
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I sent my Breitling Emergency in to its maker for a battery and it came back 3 months later/£850 bill. I feel your pain.
Not sure the guy at Timpsons would have been happy to tackle it though.
Not sure the guy at Timpsons would have been happy to tackle it though.
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- Lifer
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I have a Rolex Submariner thats more or less wrote off...
I have had ot for years and it took plenty of abuse.I have a friend who is a certified Rolex engineer and it needed servicing and seals,Bezel,crystal,case recut, strap repinning and one of the fingers has started to delaminate.
He estimated about £1600 and that was 7-8 years ago. I chucked in my watch box and started to use my Ball Hydrocarbon Chrono and thats been a much better watch and timekeeper,
I have had ot for years and it took plenty of abuse.I have a friend who is a certified Rolex engineer and it needed servicing and seals,Bezel,crystal,case recut, strap repinning and one of the fingers has started to delaminate.
He estimated about £1600 and that was 7-8 years ago. I chucked in my watch box and started to use my Ball Hydrocarbon Chrono and thats been a much better watch and timekeeper,
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Like anything mechanical, they need TLC. You wouldn't drive a car until it stopped running, or I hope not
Give Swiss Time Services a call, might bring the cost down.
Alternatively there are some great independents that can do the work much more cheaply, such as Rocco who is at Watchworks in Bristol.
Give Swiss Time Services a call, might bring the cost down.
Alternatively there are some great independents that can do the work much more cheaply, such as Rocco who is at Watchworks in Bristol.
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- ronk
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My Omega is being done by an independent and using, I'm told, Omega parts.
You don't stop playing when you get old - You get old when you stop playing!
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
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Excellent nothing worse than a watch being left in a drawer.
Love to see photos of the sub, Z4M has certainly given it a tough life!
Love to see photos of the sub, Z4M has certainly given it a tough life!
2016 F82 M4 Comp Pack, Mineral White
2016 F56 JCW - GONE
2007 ZMR, Titanium Silver for sunny days
2012 N18 JCW - GONE
2007 3.0si Z4C, Stratus Grey, Amarone Leather - GONE
2013 520d F10 - GONE
2007 3.0si Z4C, Stratus Grey, Amarone Leather - GONE
2016 F56 JCW - GONE
2007 ZMR, Titanium Silver for sunny days
2012 N18 JCW - GONE
2007 3.0si Z4C, Stratus Grey, Amarone Leather - GONE
2013 520d F10 - GONE
2007 3.0si Z4C, Stratus Grey, Amarone Leather - GONE
- ronk
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The watch still has a reasonable value so is worth spending a bit cash - I don't know what went wrong with the watch as yet.
I hope it comes back as the accurate time piece it was when new .
You don't stop playing when you get old - You get old when you stop playing!
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
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Probably just old lubricant gunked up. Most bits will just clean up perfectly well, watch manufacturers just have a default 'replace' mindset when parts can be cleaned properly etc.
It's a great watch, am sure it will come back perfect time keeping wise - I sent off an Omega I received as a 21st gift from my parents decades ago & it came back keeping time like it was fresh from the shop.
2016 F82 M4 Comp Pack, Mineral White
2016 F56 JCW - GONE
2007 ZMR, Titanium Silver for sunny days
2012 N18 JCW - GONE
2007 3.0si Z4C, Stratus Grey, Amarone Leather - GONE
2013 520d F10 - GONE
2007 3.0si Z4C, Stratus Grey, Amarone Leather - GONE
2016 F56 JCW - GONE
2007 ZMR, Titanium Silver for sunny days
2012 N18 JCW - GONE
2007 3.0si Z4C, Stratus Grey, Amarone Leather - GONE
2013 520d F10 - GONE
2007 3.0si Z4C, Stratus Grey, Amarone Leather - GONE
- ronk
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I collected the watch today
All seemed good until I tried the stop watch facility - It got almost to a minute and stopped the watch. The bill shows £550 !!!!
To add insult to injury, there is dirt in the knurled caps of one of the buttons.
Am I happy ????
All seemed good until I tried the stop watch facility - It got almost to a minute and stopped the watch. The bill shows £550 !!!!
To add insult to injury, there is dirt in the knurled caps of one of the buttons.
Am I happy ????
You don't stop playing when you get old - You get old when you stop playing!
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
- DMC63
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Are you sure you're not being abducted by aliens on a weekly basis? That would explain the lost and gained time on both watches. I have a cartier panthere, womans size, small wrists, it runs like clockwork, even tho' there's no clockworks in it. Quartz. Never looses a second, even during abductions.ronk wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:04 am My Seamaster (2225.80) has been running slow for a couple of years or more , 5mins a week -eventuallly it's stopped.
I dropped it into a local and well respected jeweller and it needs some work / parts on the balance assy then a re seal .
That's £550 to you sir!
The moral here is I suppose is if your quality watch starts to run slow - get it serviced .
The upside is that I've been using a cheapo Malayan Rolex look alike and it's been super accurate for such junk - 15secs a week gain!
BMW Z4 2003 2.5i and lots of bits and pieces - 2016 - 2020 Sold
- ronk
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No doubt quartz is the more accurate mechanism but there's something nice about a mechanical timepiece.
A certified mechanical watch is +6/ -4 secs a day
A certified mechanical watch is +6/ -4 secs a day
You don't stop playing when you get old - You get old when you stop playing!
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.
So I bought a 35is with all the toys to play with.