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The Watch Professional is extremely proud to have had two articles featured in the magazine ‘Timepiece’, magazine of the British Watch & Clock makers Guild, with plans in place for more to be featured until the end of this year.
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Another first post in a while, over a year in fact, sorry for the lack of posts! This was actually a watch I serviced a little while ago, but a watch I very much liked. I am particularly fond of the movement, Ebel calibre 134, also known as the Zenith El Primero.
Continue reading “Watch Service: Ebel 1911. Cal 134 (Zenith El Primero).”
Its been a while since my last post, trying to balance blog posts with actually servicing the watches gets more and more difficult the busier I get. What a watch this is though, the Rolex GMT Master II with blue and black bezel, aka the Batman.
Continue reading “Watch Service: Rolex GMT Master II. Cal 3186.”
Nigel sent me his Oris watch as it wasn’t winding anymore, at 6 years old its also due a service. It houses the Sellia SW200-1, pretty much a direct clone of the ETA 2824. Sellita are becoming more popular with many brands, mainly due to their availability over ETA.
Continue reading “Watch Service: Oris Aquis Date. Cal Sellita SW200-1.”
I pretty much service the majority of watches, including quartz – some watchmakers just won’t won’t work on them. David sent me His Tag Heuer Professional as it wasn’t working with a new battery and its been over 10 years since it was last serviced.
Continue reading “Watch Service: Tag Heuer Professional Quartz. Cal ETA 955.112.”
I often get asked what is it I actually do when I service a watch, what’s involved and is it really necessary? My entire website is full of different watches being serviced and I wanted to make it clearer exactly what steps each watch goes through in the process of its service whilst with me.
Continue reading “Explained: Whats involved in a watch service and should I have it done?”
Another vintage Omega for service, this time the Omega Constellation housing the 564 calibre. I previously featured on the blog a calibre 565, its physically identical to this movement, with the only difference being the 564 here is a chronometer grade movement.
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Another Rolex in for a full service – I wont complain, as ive said before, they are relatively straight forward to service and dont cause many problems at all. This one happens to have a mother of pearl diamond dial – Ill need to be very careful with this.
Continue reading “Watch Service: Rolex Datejust. Cal 3135.”
This vintage Rolex was sent to me for service as its losing time – a pretty obvious signal the watch might need a service. The owner cant remember exactly when this one was last serviced but thinks it could be over 10 years ago, so its definitely due one!
Continue reading “Watch Service: Rolex Oysterdate. Cal 1210.”
The first Panerai of the blog, the Luminor Daylight. Like all Panerais its a sizeable watch and very unique in its appearance, especially with the trade mark crown protector. Interestingly Panerai were struggling for sales in the 90’s, and it wasn’t until Sylvester Stallone picked up on them, that they really started to experience a resurgence. Whats unusual is that it wasn’t paid sponsorship, he genuinely liked the watches.
Continue reading “Watch Service: Panerai Daylight. Cal OP XII.”
The Rolex Air King is a simple looking watch and this one is powered by the Rolex calibre 3000, a relatively simple automatic movement. I particularly like the grey dial on this one. Its arrived on my bench as its losing time and is ready for a service.
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This beautiful looking Tudor chronograph was sent in by Mike for a routine service, most brands recommend servicing a luxury watch at around 4 – 5 year intervals. As a watchmaker, I certainly recommend trying to stick to servicing within every 5 years or so. After this point oils start to dry up, wear occurs faster, and can result in more parts needing to be replaced than would otherwise be needed.
Continue reading “Watch Service: Tudor Fastrider. Cal ETA 7753.”
This Railmaster is a rather more unusual Omega, I don’t see many of these across my bench. It has the Omega 2201 calibre inside – a large pocket watch movement, similar to the likes of the ETA 6497 used in Panerai – but a lot nicer looking in my opinion. Its a simple manual wind movement and a pleasure to work on, but it is large… very large!
Continue reading “Watch Service: Omega Railmaster. Cal 2201.”
This Tag Heuer Aquaracer came to me for a service as it keeps stopping. As you can see from the dial, it says its a calibre 5 movement – as with a lot of the brands, they make a slight adjustment to the movement and name it something else, this is really a simple Sellita SW 200.
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Another Breitling service for the blog, and I’ve seen quite a few of this particular model. This one was sent in by Ryan, it is 10 years old and yet to receive its first service, so it is certainly due one. The watch is also receiving a case brighten, to refresh its good looks and bring its shine back.
Continue reading “Watch Service: Breitling Superocean Heritage. Cal ETA 2824-2.”