Omega 286 suddenly running fast- what to do?

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Is there anything I can do to fix this? It was serviced a couple of years ago so don’t think it’s that. I’m not sure if I overwound it or something but it’s now gaining 10 minutes an hour. Magnetised? It was running fine before.
 
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most probably magnetised. there are plenty of cheap demagnetisers on ebay.
 
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My advice is to go to an watchmaker . I think it's possbile to cost you less than buying a demagnetiser and maybe the watch has other problem.
 
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Buy a Chinese made one off Ebay for under $10.00 if you don't mind the wait. If something else. Then you can take it to a watch maker, but $10.00 is cheaper than the watch maker if just magnetized
 
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Buy a Chinese made one off Ebay for under $10.00 if you don't mind the wait. If something else. Then you can take it to a watch maker, but $10.00 is cheaper than the watch maker if just magnetized
Any recommendations?
 
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This is always the misunderstanding. Yes demagnetizing itself will cost less than 30 seconds, but good practice is to test it first for timekeeping, measuring if it really magnetized, if yes demagnetize (yes that alone is <30 seconds) afterwards it will need a check on the Witschi or timegrapher again to see if the issue has resolved. But what many members forget here on the forum is in addition the time to pick up the phone for the initial contact, actually getting the watch handed over, booking it, calling the customer it has been repaired, making the invoice, receiving the customer and informing him on the procedure and the results, waving goodbye etc. So a simple 30 seconds job in reality is more often 20 minutes or more due to all the things around it.
 
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Hello there. The thread was from a while ago. I bought a demagnetiser as advised, used it and the watch is keeping perfect time again.