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A Highly Scientific Case For Always Sometimes Servicing Reps Out of the Box Based on Anecdotal Experience
And By Extension Paying Closer Attention To Lift Angle
By Hanski
So there was this one time that a Tudor BB58 came from a TD in China with an Asian 2824-2 clone movement. As the story goes, it was performing mediocre, not bad, not great, but like I said, mediocre.
+6s/d in dial up position isn’t all that bad but an amplitude of 266 and beat error of 0.4 for a brand new movement, not super great. If you’ve been paying especially close attention to the narrator you’d notice the Lift Angle is set at 52. It should really be 50. Really this only effects the Amplitude calculation. In the case of a 2 point deviation, it accounts for about 10 points of Amplitude. The 266 should really be about 256. So maybe it’s worth describing the health of the movement as mediocre.
Reading the semi-sad take the Timegrapher shows our protagonist spends a fortnight deliberating what to do next. And henceforth it is decided to clean the movement with real Swiss cleaning fluids, lubrications the movement with real Swiss oil, and regulate the movement with real Swiss tools.
With great trepidation the watch ventured back onto the Timegrapher for yet another reading.
Huzzah! The test results are stellar, even with a 10 point amplitude adjustment down to 295! A young knight in training couldn’t ask for better. He decided to write home about this.
And so the story comes to an end with watch on wrist. The moral is, sometimes it’s always good to service a rep out of the box because sometimes it always makes things better. Good luck out there!
And By Extension Paying Closer Attention To Lift Angle
By Hanski
So there was this one time that a Tudor BB58 came from a TD in China with an Asian 2824-2 clone movement. As the story goes, it was performing mediocre, not bad, not great, but like I said, mediocre.
+6s/d in dial up position isn’t all that bad but an amplitude of 266 and beat error of 0.4 for a brand new movement, not super great. If you’ve been paying especially close attention to the narrator you’d notice the Lift Angle is set at 52. It should really be 50. Really this only effects the Amplitude calculation. In the case of a 2 point deviation, it accounts for about 10 points of Amplitude. The 266 should really be about 256. So maybe it’s worth describing the health of the movement as mediocre.
Reading the semi-sad take the Timegrapher shows our protagonist spends a fortnight deliberating what to do next. And henceforth it is decided to clean the movement with real Swiss cleaning fluids, lubrications the movement with real Swiss oil, and regulate the movement with real Swiss tools.
With great trepidation the watch ventured back onto the Timegrapher for yet another reading.
Huzzah! The test results are stellar, even with a 10 point amplitude adjustment down to 295! A young knight in training couldn’t ask for better. He decided to write home about this.
And so the story comes to an end with watch on wrist. The moral is, sometimes it’s always good to service a rep out of the box because sometimes it always makes things better. Good luck out there!
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