60's Seamaster losing 60s-70s/day

Hi all,

My early 1960's Seamaster has been losing around 60s to 70s per day lately and I was wondering if anyone thinks it's just a service issue- I just had it serviced just under 2 years ago. I know that it's a vintage watch but I somehow feel that 2 years or less between services is a little too frequent...

As an FYI cal is 552 and I had the rotor replaced during my last service as it was damaged (according to the servicer). I wear the watch every day.

Any ideas/help solving the problem would be appreciated- I don't want to go in for another service so soon just to have it not fix the issue...

Pic for fun 😁

Time loss has been gradual over the last 6 months- possibly over the entire period since serviced but nothing noticable to me until 6 months ago when I started losing 20s-30s per day I think. I didn't really recognize a problem until a few weeks ago when I looked at the time and it was noticeably behind.

No warranty (or none that lasted this long- I think it was like a month warranty). The watch was non-functioning when I brought it in so I was just happy to get it running at all at the time of original service.

Yes will do. I used STAR watch repair in Manhattan based off some info on NYC repairs on this site- I will look around for someone more specialized...

552 is a nice movement, mine is averaging -4 sec per day. Let the forum know if you need recommendations for a watchmaker near you. Good luck with it!

PS, I've read that +/- 15 seconds (or up to 25) is not a terrible outcome for a watch of this age
https://omegaforums.net/threads/acc...master-ref-14765-25c-cal-552-automatic.88676/

Thanks- yea I don't really mind up to +/- 20 or so but -60 is too much for me lol. If anyone has any watchmaker reccomendations I'm all ears