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Relic pocket and wrist watches are not difficult to be adjusted. Relic watches are mechanical timepieces with movements that contain a balance wheel and hairspring. Even though a? regularly serviced mechanical watch will keep good time,jewellery, it would lose or gain up to four to eight seconds a day. Can't believe it? Actually, a mechanical watch is not as accurate as a quartz electronic timepiece. A vintage watch's accuracy can be improved to losing or gaining just one or two seconds a day by adjusting the regulator of the movement. Of course you have to set it with correct methods.
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Step 1
Pull the crown on the relic watch. Rotate it clockwise until the hands reflect the accurate time. Depress the crown and rotate it clockwise until it stops. The watch is fully wound. Note the exact time,balenciaga handbags, including seconds on the seconds hand, against a quartz watch. Put the watch aside crystal side up and wait 24 hours.
Step 2
Note the exact time after 24 hours and record how many seconds or minutes the watch has gained or lost against the quartz model.
Step 3
Check to see what kind of case back your watch has.
If the case back is a screw-down model,coach bags, place the watch face down in the palm of your hand and use your fingertips from the other hand to rotate the case back counterclockwise until it is free from the case.
If the case back is a snap case version, insert your fingernail or flat blade under the case back lip and lift the case. If there is no lip, carefully wedge the flat blade into the seam and pry open.
Step 4
Using a magnifying glass or jeweler's loupe locate the regulator on the movement. The regulator is usually a small needle above the hairspring. Some movements have a slot on a flat dial. The needle is generally centered over hash marks. To the right of the hash marks is "S" or "-" for "slow" and to the left is "F" or "+" for "fast.".
Step 5
Using the plastic toothpick, nudge the needle towards the "F" or "S" using the hash marks to mark the needle's progress. By adjusting the needle one notch at a time you will speed or slow the regulator to adjust the accuracy of the movement. If the regulator is the slotted version, place a slotted precisions screwdriver into the crevice and turn the dial.
Step 6
Time the accuracy of your timepiece against a stopwatch or a quartz watch with a seconds hand.? When it is necessary, adjust the regulator needle until the movement runs in time with the stopwatch or quartz watch. It takes some time to adjust the needle to achieve desired results.