Broken Watch

[ronk]

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!

 

[Behr]

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.

 

[Z4M-2006]

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,

 

[mj2k]

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.

 

[ronk]

My Omega is being done by an independent and using, I'm told, Omega parts.

 

[mj2k]

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!

 

[ronk]

Excellent 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 .

 

[mj2k]

Excellent 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.

 

[ronk]

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 ????

 

[DMC63]

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.

 

[ronk]

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