Job Number 190052
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Not a Good Day, Job Numbers 190031, 190026, 190030, 190042
Job Number 190031
Returned to me barely running, I found it to have been very strongly magnetized. That’s easy to fix, but it is still on the bench. I can not get consistent timing in any position. Some runs it’s fine, then the next day it will be 2 minutes off, no detectable cause.
Job Number 190026
Mysteriously arrived with the crystal off. It’s on its way back.
Job Number 190030
Arrived unable to go into setting position, sent back. I took the dial off, examined the setting/winding parts, found no problem, put it back together, works fine again just as it did when it left the first time.
Job Number 190042
This watch tested for 4 days with less than 1 minute of error. It’s on its way back reported to lose 10 minutes an hour.
A typical test period before I send watches back is five to six days, very rarely less. I wind and set them every morning, recording the times and error. I do this dial up, dial down and hanging pendent up. If I have to adjust anything, anything at all, I start the whole process over from the beginning. Many watches are tested for a couple of weeks. I keep testing them no matter how much the owner emails me. When I know someone wants to carry the watch, I often carry it myself for a day just to make sure. When watches come back, no matter what, whether I fix something or not, I literally triple the entire testing process.
Long before getting to practical testing, checking and servicing everything in a watch is a meticulous and time consuming procedure. There's dozens of things to inspect and test from the mainspring barrel to the escapement to the hands and every pivot, pinion and tooth in between. I don't skip anything, whether the watch is a complete wreak or near mint. After all that, all there is I can think of to do is the practical test of actually running a watch for days and days. When it's good, I send it back.
That isn’t good enough and I don’t know what to do about it. I don't know what else to add. I have been at this for 15 years but for some reason it’s worse than ever. I think I am going to give up this work.
Returned to me barely running, I found it to have been very strongly magnetized. That’s easy to fix, but it is still on the bench. I can not get consistent timing in any position. Some runs it’s fine, then the next day it will be 2 minutes off, no detectable cause.
Job Number 190026
Mysteriously arrived with the crystal off. It’s on its way back.
Job Number 190030
Arrived unable to go into setting position, sent back. I took the dial off, examined the setting/winding parts, found no problem, put it back together, works fine again just as it did when it left the first time.
Job Number 190042
This watch tested for 4 days with less than 1 minute of error. It’s on its way back reported to lose 10 minutes an hour.
A typical test period before I send watches back is five to six days, very rarely less. I wind and set them every morning, recording the times and error. I do this dial up, dial down and hanging pendent up. If I have to adjust anything, anything at all, I start the whole process over from the beginning. Many watches are tested for a couple of weeks. I keep testing them no matter how much the owner emails me. When I know someone wants to carry the watch, I often carry it myself for a day just to make sure. When watches come back, no matter what, whether I fix something or not, I literally triple the entire testing process.
Long before getting to practical testing, checking and servicing everything in a watch is a meticulous and time consuming procedure. There's dozens of things to inspect and test from the mainspring barrel to the escapement to the hands and every pivot, pinion and tooth in between. I don't skip anything, whether the watch is a complete wreak or near mint. After all that, all there is I can think of to do is the practical test of actually running a watch for days and days. When it's good, I send it back.
That isn’t good enough and I don’t know what to do about it. I don't know what else to add. I have been at this for 15 years but for some reason it’s worse than ever. I think I am going to give up this work.
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