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For all those who dont like reading long posts here are the main punchlines of this post:
- GET your 7S26 regulated - you will be amazed at the performance
- DONT do it yourself and LET A PROFESSIONAL DO IT!!
WHY SHOULDNT I DO IT?
1. you will most likely end up scratching the caseback as i did - the damn thing was WAAAAY tighter than i asumed it to be, so the tool popped out and scratched my beloved caseback on 3 places.
2. You WILL NOT regulate it right the first 10 million times which means you will keep opening the caseback and with that you risk getting more dust (and some other particles, like a guy whos eyelash fell onto the spring) with every new regulation.
3. the Lever From Hell takes such a small touch, where you think it didnt even move, to make the watch fast or slow by tens of seconds!!
4. You have to wait for a couple of hours to see the effect which means you will be doing it a couple of days, and although i love to fiddle with such things, it does get frustrating when you keep overshooting the goal!!
Why should i let a PRO do it?
1. He will not scrach your caseback
2. he will do it with one opening of a caseback
3. he will get INCREDIBLE results (in two days my OM has lost 2 seconds)
4. It will be over in 3-5 minutes
5. It is either cheap or (in my case) free of charge!!!!
The story:
i have had my monster for half a year now and most of that time it was in a 6-10 sec/day window!
I thought that was quite good, since i had another 7s26 (snk805) and it ran 12-15 sec/day!
It was acceptable for me, although the first mechanical i bought (Orient STI) was better
always being around +5sec/day!
This changed when i dropped my Monster (the clumsy idiot) on to a tile floor from about a meter (i think it comes to 3 feet, hehe) and since then the monster ran constantly at -15 to 20 sec/day!!
that kind of got annoying so after i recieved my watch tool set (we all get one eventually ) i tried regulating it myself!!
Someone on this forum i think once called the lever with which you regulate a Lever From Hell, and that is SUCH a fitting name for the damn thing!!!
My endevour started on friday!
tried opening my OM and what do you know, the robots that screw casebacks must be the ones that have enough torque to spin our planet, because nothing else can explain the amount of tightness in the caseback!!!
this resluted in me scratching the caseback and getting pissed!!!
But since i already scratched it i decided to continue with it anyways! So after another try where i used my inner animal spirit, i succesfully unscrewed the caseback!!
Since my watch was loosing time i nudged the little lever to the + side (being carefull not to touch the "NEVER TOUCH THIS" thingie that adjusts the ticks).
i closed the caseback but not tighten it with the tool since i asumed i will have to open it up again.
i then timed my watch to the online atomic, and wrote down when i measured it and how fast or slow it was at that moment, relative to the atomic.
I wrote it down cause i thought i will have to check the result in 24 hours and wanted to make sure i dont forgett what the difference was!!
Writing it down was SO not neccesary, since i noticed a difference within half an hour, and what a difference it was.... i calculated it to be about +60 and more sec/day.
to cut the long part short, i kept nudging the lever in the oposite dirrection of the watches tendency but ALWAYS overshot the right position. And before some of you say "you have to think about moving it, but not ACCTUALLY move it", i did! i did it like that, all damn day, and the next, and the next!!!
the closest i got was worse then when i began so i gave it up afraid i might damage the spring by slowly losing my nerves!!
On monday i went looking for a professional (something i should have done right away), and found out that most "watchmakers" in my town sell quartz watches, change batteries and resize bracelets, and thats about it.
No one regulates mechanicals anymore (the excuse being their timing device is broken, with 3 out of 4 watchmakers, i mean what are the odds of them all having the same problem at the same time)!
I guess they just didnt have requests like these anymore and probably sold their timing devices!!
They all pointed me to some guy who still does mechanicals (that being the 4 out of 4).
i went to this guys place and the difference between him and the others is that he had only about 5 watches on display for sale and a whole lot of disasembled watches in front of himself working on them!!
I knew he is THE GUY, i mean he even had the loupe on one eye!!
i showed him my watch and explained the problem, expecting him to say to come back after couple of days, but he opened it, hooked it on to a machine and started fiddling with it.
in about 2 minuted he gave it back to me and said it should be within a couple of seconds a day!!
i asked him how much does it cost and he just waved his arm, said its nothing and went back to the parts in front of him!!
i cuoldnt believe it!!
i told him i have some more mechanicals that i would like to regulate but only if he would charge me, and he said bring them, and pay me whatever you like!
I have to say i am a very happy man these couple of days!!
the only question that remains is, how long will the monster act like this?
To conclude, REGULATE YOUR SEIKOS!!!!!
Cheers from the owner of a Chronometer Monster :-d!!!
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- GET your 7S26 regulated - you will be amazed at the performance
- DONT do it yourself and LET A PROFESSIONAL DO IT!!
WHY SHOULDNT I DO IT?
1. you will most likely end up scratching the caseback as i did - the damn thing was WAAAAY tighter than i asumed it to be, so the tool popped out and scratched my beloved caseback on 3 places.
2. You WILL NOT regulate it right the first 10 million times which means you will keep opening the caseback and with that you risk getting more dust (and some other particles, like a guy whos eyelash fell onto the spring) with every new regulation.
3. the Lever From Hell takes such a small touch, where you think it didnt even move, to make the watch fast or slow by tens of seconds!!
4. You have to wait for a couple of hours to see the effect which means you will be doing it a couple of days, and although i love to fiddle with such things, it does get frustrating when you keep overshooting the goal!!
Why should i let a PRO do it?
1. He will not scrach your caseback
2. he will do it with one opening of a caseback
3. he will get INCREDIBLE results (in two days my OM has lost 2 seconds)
4. It will be over in 3-5 minutes
5. It is either cheap or (in my case) free of charge!!!!
The story:
i have had my monster for half a year now and most of that time it was in a 6-10 sec/day window!
I thought that was quite good, since i had another 7s26 (snk805) and it ran 12-15 sec/day!
It was acceptable for me, although the first mechanical i bought (Orient STI) was better
always being around +5sec/day!
This changed when i dropped my Monster (the clumsy idiot) on to a tile floor from about a meter (i think it comes to 3 feet, hehe) and since then the monster ran constantly at -15 to 20 sec/day!!
that kind of got annoying so after i recieved my watch tool set (we all get one eventually ) i tried regulating it myself!!
Someone on this forum i think once called the lever with which you regulate a Lever From Hell, and that is SUCH a fitting name for the damn thing!!!
My endevour started on friday!
tried opening my OM and what do you know, the robots that screw casebacks must be the ones that have enough torque to spin our planet, because nothing else can explain the amount of tightness in the caseback!!!
this resluted in me scratching the caseback and getting pissed!!!
But since i already scratched it i decided to continue with it anyways! So after another try where i used my inner animal spirit, i succesfully unscrewed the caseback!!
Since my watch was loosing time i nudged the little lever to the + side (being carefull not to touch the "NEVER TOUCH THIS" thingie that adjusts the ticks).
i closed the caseback but not tighten it with the tool since i asumed i will have to open it up again.
i then timed my watch to the online atomic, and wrote down when i measured it and how fast or slow it was at that moment, relative to the atomic.
I wrote it down cause i thought i will have to check the result in 24 hours and wanted to make sure i dont forgett what the difference was!!
Writing it down was SO not neccesary, since i noticed a difference within half an hour, and what a difference it was.... i calculated it to be about +60 and more sec/day.
to cut the long part short, i kept nudging the lever in the oposite dirrection of the watches tendency but ALWAYS overshot the right position. And before some of you say "you have to think about moving it, but not ACCTUALLY move it", i did! i did it like that, all damn day, and the next, and the next!!!
the closest i got was worse then when i began so i gave it up afraid i might damage the spring by slowly losing my nerves!!
On monday i went looking for a professional (something i should have done right away), and found out that most "watchmakers" in my town sell quartz watches, change batteries and resize bracelets, and thats about it.
No one regulates mechanicals anymore (the excuse being their timing device is broken, with 3 out of 4 watchmakers, i mean what are the odds of them all having the same problem at the same time)!
I guess they just didnt have requests like these anymore and probably sold their timing devices!!
They all pointed me to some guy who still does mechanicals (that being the 4 out of 4).
i went to this guys place and the difference between him and the others is that he had only about 5 watches on display for sale and a whole lot of disasembled watches in front of himself working on them!!
I knew he is THE GUY, i mean he even had the loupe on one eye!!
i showed him my watch and explained the problem, expecting him to say to come back after couple of days, but he opened it, hooked it on to a machine and started fiddling with it.
in about 2 minuted he gave it back to me and said it should be within a couple of seconds a day!!
i asked him how much does it cost and he just waved his arm, said its nothing and went back to the parts in front of him!!
i cuoldnt believe it!!
i told him i have some more mechanicals that i would like to regulate but only if he would charge me, and he said bring them, and pay me whatever you like!
I have to say i am a very happy man these couple of days!!
the only question that remains is, how long will the monster act like this?
To conclude, REGULATE YOUR SEIKOS!!!!!
Cheers from the owner of a Chronometer Monster :-d!!!
