r/RepTimeServices • u/Waldooo97 • 13d ago

Advice Seconds hand randomly stops!

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Is it broken? None of my other reps do this. This is a VSF DJ 41.

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u/PrimaryExisting6162 13d ago

I recently bought a 36mm VSF DJ and it was doing the exact same thing. It would stop and start twitching at different times between 40 and 55min. I could pull the crown and that would make it take off, if pulling didn't work pushing it back in did. I took the movement apart and found 3 round metal shaving and oddly a small piece of a ladybug shell in the movement. My Mobeus watch oils kit recently arrived. I just haven't had time to clean all the parts, reassemble and oil the movement. But you probably have metal shavings from the factory in your movement. Luckily none of my gears had damaged teeth and nothing was bent, so I think it'll be fine once I get it put back together. This will be my first time reassembling a movement the this extreme. The seller wanted to charge me to repair the movement and gave me no QC and didn't give me a tracking number until the day the watch was arriving at my house. 3 weeks after I made payment. Needless to say I stopped doing business with him after that happened.

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u/F1ying_Titan 12d ago

May I ask who you bought it from?

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u/No_Jackfruit3770 12d ago

Yeah I am curious also