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Dombo63
·My Speedy is averaging +2.2 seconds per day.
I guess it's only downhill from here🙁
I guess it's only downhill from here🙁
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Spacefruit
··Prolific Speedmaster HoarderWhen purchasing a used or vintage watch and considering if you should service it, unless the seller has evidence (not just his word, but a service receipt from Omega or other well known servicer) that it has been serviced recently, I would count on needing a service. If it turns out that it doesn't need a service, consider that a bonus.
The problem with using timekeeping as any sort of indicator is that a watch could be in great shape and running poorly due to not being adjusted well, or not being regulated well, or it could be dried out oils etc. On the slip side, I have shown that a watch that does keep time well isn't necessarily an indication that it doesn't need servicing:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/if-...-does-that-mean-it-doesnt-need-service.20475/
The watch I showed in that thread would have easily run within the -4 to +6 per day tolerances, and yet it was completely dry inside...if I left it to run like that, there is no doubt parts would be damaged.
Cheers, Al
In case anyone missed it:
When purchasing a used or vintage watch and considering if you should service it, unless the seller has evidence (not just his word, but a service receipt from Omega or other well known servicer) that it has been serviced recently, I would count on needing a service. If it turns out that it doesn't need a service, consider that a bonus.
I think that phrase could be on an auto respond for all What do you think?/Should I? posts.
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w.finkenstaedt
·In case anyone missed it:
When purchasing a used or vintage watch and considering if you should service it, unless the seller has evidence (not just his word, but a service receipt from Omega or other well known servicer) that it has been serviced recently, I would count on needing a service. If it turns out that it doesn't need a service, consider that a bonus.
I think that phrase could be on an auto respond for all What do you think?/Should I? posts.
Long story short: if you don't know the last time it was serviced, it's time. [emoji23]
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