Ferrari Mailing List: [NFC] Watch regulation

[Martin Stark (MStark]

Being the onset of the holiday season, isn't it the time to begin a new 
watch thread?

Has any other lister ever tried to regulate his watch?

I recently sent my Rolex Daytona (16528) in for service and when it came 
back it was running +6 sec/day when compared to  The official U.S. time 
- clock <http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java> .  Mind 
you, +6 sec is a lot better than its previous state of being exactly 
right twice a day, but it still kind of pissed me off that the repair 
guy didn't bother to regulate it. Not wanting the send it back to the 
service station, I purchased a micro-stella tool (a very small, very 
strange wrench) and pair of brass tweezers on eBay and dove right it.  
DIY watch regulation is not quite as daunting as home dentistry, but 
certainly not for the faint-of-heart. Somehow I got lucky and managed to 
not mangle the hairspring or bend the balance wheel pivot shaft whilst 
wrenching five and a half counter-clockwise graduations on the smaller 
pair of micro-stellas.  It now appears to be running within a half 
sec/day of  The official U.S. time - clock 
<http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java> Quit while you're 
ahead now comes into play.




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