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What are your thoughts on the Speedmaster reduced? Worth it?
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03Hemi
·I really like the black dial, something about it that just "pops" with the stainless. It'll be my next, unless something else different just falls in my lap.
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ExpiredWatchdog
·I rebuilt the Reduced, including the movement AND DD module.
Did you do it yourself or have a watchmaker do it? I'm curious if you had any technical documentation to follow.
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mzinski
·Did you do it yourself or have a watchmaker do it? I'm curious if you had any technical documentation to follow.
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ExpiredWatchdog
·I did all the work myself and for the movement I did indeed have the technical guide.
Very impressive. Cousins has the tech sheet listed as Omega 3220. While searching for it, I saw that several watchmakers mentioned a holder and said that it was absolutely necessary, but then others said the instructions were all that was needed. I do realize that there are several modules out there and wasn't trying to find any one at the time, so that's maybe the source of my confusion.
To the OP; someone posted this same question on WUS last week and one DD defender said he had his watch serviced without having anything done to the module and it worked out ok. In the defence of such a strategy, the only part that's going to run at speeds fast enough to require Moebius 9010 (the thin lube) is whatever is driven by the seconds wheel staff, everything else is going to be HP-1300 or thicker (which evaporates/spreads/dissimulates much slower).
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerTo the OP; someone posted this same question on WUS last week and one DD defender said he had his watch serviced without having anything done to the module and it worked out ok. In the defence of such a strategy, the only part that's going to run at speeds fast enough to require Moebius 9010 (the thin lube) is whatever is driven by the seconds wheel staff, everything else is going to be HP-1300 or thicker (which evaporates/spreads/dissimulates much slower).
This "defence" doesn't make a lot of sense. There are plenty of places in movements that use heavier oil that wear out - in fact they are more likely to have wear due to the higher loads than areas with lighter loads - that's why they use a heavier oil in the first place...
