On the bench today… Old Rolex Oyster

This one came in for a half service and a clean up.

Sadly my camera decided to lose all of the pictures of the strip down, clean and rebuild. Which is a shame.

This watch is quite badly worn, as it had not been serviced in the thirty years since it’s purchase, so even after everything, it still only runs unevenly, which is a shame, but when I say unevenly, I’m talking about a fraction on a second every minute, as you can see from the timegrapher above. Overall, the gain or loss is zero seconds a day, which was all the customer wanted anyway.

Yes, the beat error is out, I can see that. 🙂 However the Rolex tool to adjust that out, is ridiculously expensive and the customer wanted it done for next to nothing.