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Post by Humph on Aug 27, 2016 10:12:11 GMT
I've an old Tag. It's 30 years old in fact. Battery movement and has never been any bother until recently. Worn by me at least 5 days a week for all that time. However, for the past year it has been going through batteries every two months instead of one every two years ! Local jewellers haven't really filled me with confidence that they know what to do with it.
So I checked around and in the end the best option seemed to be to send it to the official Tag approved repair centre in Manchester.
When I was in Hong Kong in July I bought myself a quite nice Seiko automatic, which I've been wearing since and it is fine, so I don't really need the Tag any more but sentimentally, I just want to find out if it can be fixed.
Doesnt sound like it'll be a cheap option mind you.
May have to apply some man maths...
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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 27, 2016 11:34:49 GMT
I have an old wind-up bulova chrongraph of 1970 vintage that needs a clean and a service. Even man maths cant cover the estimated cost of 350 quid!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 21:58:33 GMT
My wife has a TAG and she had it fettled in Manchester last year. Will ask her where and how much. It wasn't cheap but wasn't stupid either.
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Post by Humph on Aug 28, 2016 7:16:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2016 7:36:46 GMT
Ok. SWMBO went to Intime.Co.UK if the quote is too high. The branch she went to was in the Arndale Centre in Manchester.
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Post by harleyman on Sept 4, 2016 13:19:26 GMT
I broke the mainspring on my late father's Omega a couple of years ago. Local jeweller retired a few years ago, nobody else in the district had any suggestions other than to send it off somewhere else and quotes were in excess of £300 just to start the job. I remembered that these guys are based a few miles away from where i was brought up, so a trawl through their site found me a chap in Swansea who did an excellent job for less than a hundred quid. Only downside was I had to wait ages, since as with any other decent craftsman you don't get a good inexpensive job done quickly; result was well worth it though. bhi.co.uk/find-a/how-to-find-a-professional/incidentally, Upton Hall is well worth a visit to see the fascinating museum. |
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 4, 2016 14:01:46 GMT
......since as with any other decent craftsman you don't get a good inexpensive job done quickly..... ..indeed, one of my favourite aphorisms is "I do good work, cheaply and quickly - you may choose any two of the three"....  |
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Post by crankcase on Sept 7, 2016 7:43:49 GMT
One of the Youtube channels I subscribe to is The Watch Repair Channel. He knows his stuff, and as long as you have patience with slow, quiet videos, then to my mind these are fascinating. You can get an idea of how intricate these things are, and perhaps why it costs what it does. It's very precise work, but also pretty technical, especially when it comes to diagnosis. Here's the first part of his "Service a Breitling" video, and there are many more. Great stuff. Or the rest of his videos are here: www.youtube.com/user/jewldood/videos |
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 7, 2016 18:32:03 GMT
I love that site, not sure I'd be happy to use that as a training course to fix my £7k Brietling tho..... As it is I cant even get the back off my bulova.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 21:03:14 GMT
I love that site, not sure I'd be happy to use that as a training course to fix my £7k Brietling tho..... As it is I cant even get the back off my bulova. Both Mrs K's and my Breitling are due for a complete service. Takes about four weeks and costs £1k. www.breitling.com/multimedia/pdf/sav/sav-894.pdf |
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Post by Humph on Sept 7, 2016 22:36:37 GMT
Eek ! How much did you say ?
I feel a bit queasy...
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Post by Rob on Sept 7, 2016 23:31:28 GMT
Best take a sit down. £500 per watch to service is more than I'd want to pay. But I luckily don't want a Breathing. Or unluckily. I'd rather the cash for something else.
My Sekonda is fine. I might put a Breitling face on my other watch for fun.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2016 0:02:34 GMT
£1,000 ought to be for both, surely?
My Breitling cost around £500 to service and my Rolex around £750. Thought neither was in the UK but I wouldn't have thought it would vary by country that much.
Sorry, just realised you posted a link. I'll go away.
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Post by crankcase on Sept 8, 2016 7:55:44 GMT
I love that site, not sure I'd be happy to use that as a training course to fix my £7k Brietling tho..... As it is I cant even get the back off my bulova. Is that because there's some oddity about yours? I thought those were snap backs, with the possible addition of four back screws on some models? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2016 9:03:08 GMT
I have two Bulova Accutrons (one is the Spaceview model from the trade shows in the 1960s). The backs screw off, requiring a set of pliers with the noses turned through 90 degrees. Regretfully they no longer keep time very well and I have lost interest in fancy watches.
I prefer the simple Seiko which cost me about £100 ten years ago. It has exactly what I want: Numbers instead of pips, easy to read date window, a second hand, very luminous main hands and numbers and waterproof so I can swim to my hearts content without a problem. All it costs me is a new battery every couple of years. I keep looking at the similar watches with the kinetic movement, but I just dont see the point. Just like friends of mine who keep cars for ten years.......
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