HELP! Patek irreparable?
I already wrote about my unlucky experience with my Patek 1 month ago - but the bad luck continues: After having purchased an Aquanaut in the Patek store in Geneva, Switzerland in Sept. 2003, the watch first seemed to work perfectly well. After 6 weeks it...
Looks like the broken mainspring symptoms.
Really bad luck, they were supposed to be unbreakable nowadays. If you wind it to the end and the watch runs for some minutes, then stops, it must be the case.
could be , but could be plenty of things
Hi Breitlinger, A broken mainspring could cause the symtpoms described but there are any number of problems that could also result in the same effect: the watch is not running. Diagnosis over the internet is all but completely impossible so I'd rather not...
one thing to check
I would ask your dealer to provide you copies of the paperwork from the Geneve repair center just to confirm the problem was with the Patek repair facilities. Then I would attempt to contact Patek directly making reference to the paperwork to explain the ...
Simailr problem with my 5056P
Hello Purists, Some of you may have read my earlier post about the troubles I'm having with my 5056P. My watchmaker suggested (and quite resolutely I might add) that I keep the watch as close to fully wound as possible all the time. His position is that i...
the movement should run the full power reserve (or very nearly) and . . .
with a reasonable degree of accuracy for at least the first half or so. Anything short of this means the watch needs professional attention. _john
I'm not quite entirely with you John. So it should>>>>
run the full power reserve accurately or I should only expect it to run the first half accurately with the second half being a crapshoot accuracy-wise? It just doesn't seem right that it should not run properly, or at ALL, while there is still power in th...
it should keep ticking for the full power reserve but. . .
Hi Tom, The power reserve is the length of time it should actually run. Generally speaking the timekeeping will diminish as it goes through the lower half of the reserve and get pretty wonky right near the end. That's why watches are designed with a power...
power reserve
Are you relying on the power reserve indicator as an indication of how much reserve is left or are you timing it independently? Maybe the power reserve indicator is malfunctioning and the watch is not fully wound when it says it is?
