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Post by ronk » 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!
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Post by Behr » Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:46 am

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.
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Post by Z4M-2006 » Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:30 am

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,

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Post by mj2k » Sun Apr 16, 2017 1:52 pm

Like anything mechanical, they need TLC. You wouldn't drive a car until it stopped running, or I hope not :lol:

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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Post by ronk » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:03 pm

My Omega is being done by an independent and using, I'm told, Omega parts.
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Post by mj2k » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:08 pm

Excellent :thumbsup: 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!
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Post by ronk » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:26 pm

mj2k wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:08 pm Excellent :thumbsup: nothing worse than a watch being left in a drawer.
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 .
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Post by mj2k » Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:43 pm

ronk wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:26 pm
mj2k wrote: Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:08 pm Excellent :thumbsup: nothing worse than a watch being left in a drawer.
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 .
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.
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Post by ronk » Tue May 02, 2017 4:54 pm

I collected the watch today :thumbsup:
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 ????
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Post by DMC63 » Tue May 02, 2017 5:24 pm

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!
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. :thumbsup:
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Post by ronk » Tue May 02, 2017 6:04 pm

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
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