Hello, and please tell me about my watch!

V Vizard

That's the sort of thing I was expecting to see, honestly.

Out of interest, why would you not advance it slightly so that it gains, rather than loses?

I have returned the watch and told the seller that I might buy it back if they can demonstrate that it's been attended to properly.

Canuck

I’ll let it run for a day or so, on the wrist. Timing machines are useful in the repair of a watch, in terms of ironing out watch conditions that cause significant variations in rate. But I feel that final adjusting is best done after actually wearing the watch. This one has gained 3 seconds after 12 hours on the wrist. Even though the timing machine shows a slight loss in all six positions. This watch is not rated as a chronometer, and probably was only timed to three positions at the factory. So testing it to six positions as I did, is sort of an acid test! Besides, this watch (and yours) don’t have micrometer regulators, and adjusting these standard non-micrometer regulators for seconds per day is a crap shoot. If you can see how much you’ve moved it, you’ve moved it too far. This exercise (with my watch) is useful to point out either that yours has problems that have not been attended to during the servicing it was supposed to have had, or it simply was NOT serviced!

I’ve shown two images. One shows a standard regulator (yours and mine), and the one with the arrow shows a micrometer regulator which is better when adjusting for seconds in a day.

Canuck

End of test. When I last checked the 283 yesterday, after a 48-hour run, it was still within 3 seconds. Got up this morning and found I had forgotten to wind it yesterday. But as far as the time test went, it indicates that a calibre 283 that hasn’t been previously butchered, once thoroughly serviced and adjusted, can be made to keep much better time than to original subject watch in this thread.