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·Am I the only one comfortable with asking his watchmaker to tweak the timekeeping for me after the watch has been on the wrist a couple of weeks?
I see a lot of you complaining (or at least commenting) on +12 every day... keep track of the rate and ask for your watch to be "adjusted for wear". My watchmaker says, "the first one's for free" because like most of them, they don't want to be fiddling with the regulaton, but on chronometers it's not all that difficult to turn a screw.
I get it, the coaxial is a pain to adjust because of the free-sprung balance, but it can be done. Once it's close enough, for example +3 a day, then I'll set the watch -15 when I pull it out of the box and wear it until it's +15, when I either reset it or wear a different watch.
I see a lot of you complaining (or at least commenting) on +12 every day... keep track of the rate and ask for your watch to be "adjusted for wear". My watchmaker says, "the first one's for free" because like most of them, they don't want to be fiddling with the regulaton, but on chronometers it's not all that difficult to turn a screw.
I get it, the coaxial is a pain to adjust because of the free-sprung balance, but it can be done. Once it's close enough, for example +3 a day, then I'll set the watch -15 when I pull it out of the box and wear it until it's +15, when I either reset it or wear a different watch.
