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camkeller30
·Hello all,
It would be great if someone could help me out. I bought a vintage seamaster last week (cal. 565, ref.166.002). I’m having a problem with the seconds hand stopping occasionally. When it stops, it’s not stopping in a consistent location, or getting stuck on the other hands. I don’t think it’s getting stuck on the crystal, but I’m not positive. The watch was apparently serviced about a year ago, and has sat unworn since then. I don’t think that it’s a gear or anything getting binded up or anything either since the movement still keeps perfect time and continues to tick even when the seconds hand has stopped (I’ve held it up to my ear to hear it as well as observed the balance wheel still moving when the hand is stopped) as well as the fact that it was just serviced. Occasionally when it stops I will try tapping it or shaking it a little bit to see if that starts the hand again, and it starts up sometimes, but when it doesn’t start right back up, my shaking/tapping will occasionally move the seconds hand forward/backward by up to 15 seconds (usually only a few seconds though). This made me think that the seconds hand wasn’t seated properly on the post, but I removed the dial a few days ago to work on the date wheel and it continued doing it after I re-installed the hands. It’s possible it’s still not seated correctly, but what are the odds of it still being seated incorrectly after 2 installations? I’d love help addressing this issue, if anyone could help. I’d hate to have to return the watch, because I think it’s beautiful. I hope it isn’t a hard fix. I should add that I’m fairly comfortable with doing medium difficulty repairs. I don’t have tools or expertise to do a full service, but I can do some smaller work, for example, last week I took the autowinding works (to unwind the main spring), balance bridge, pallet bridge and fork, off of a cal.552 movement to get a hair out of the escape wheel. Thanks for any help!
It would be great if someone could help me out. I bought a vintage seamaster last week (cal. 565, ref.166.002). I’m having a problem with the seconds hand stopping occasionally. When it stops, it’s not stopping in a consistent location, or getting stuck on the other hands. I don’t think it’s getting stuck on the crystal, but I’m not positive. The watch was apparently serviced about a year ago, and has sat unworn since then. I don’t think that it’s a gear or anything getting binded up or anything either since the movement still keeps perfect time and continues to tick even when the seconds hand has stopped (I’ve held it up to my ear to hear it as well as observed the balance wheel still moving when the hand is stopped) as well as the fact that it was just serviced. Occasionally when it stops I will try tapping it or shaking it a little bit to see if that starts the hand again, and it starts up sometimes, but when it doesn’t start right back up, my shaking/tapping will occasionally move the seconds hand forward/backward by up to 15 seconds (usually only a few seconds though). This made me think that the seconds hand wasn’t seated properly on the post, but I removed the dial a few days ago to work on the date wheel and it continued doing it after I re-installed the hands. It’s possible it’s still not seated correctly, but what are the odds of it still being seated incorrectly after 2 installations? I’d love help addressing this issue, if anyone could help. I’d hate to have to return the watch, because I think it’s beautiful. I hope it isn’t a hard fix. I should add that I’m fairly comfortable with doing medium difficulty repairs. I don’t have tools or expertise to do a full service, but I can do some smaller work, for example, last week I took the autowinding works (to unwind the main spring), balance bridge, pallet bridge and fork, off of a cal.552 movement to get a hair out of the escape wheel. Thanks for any help!
