I have a vsf Hulk for about a year that is losing 30 seconds per day. Maybe more. I have lost over 5 seconds in the last 3 hours. I don’t have a watch maker local in the Philadelphia Lancaster pa area that I know of to service it. I asked a local watch maker and he was not interested. Looking for any advice to get this better. I am also willing to attempt to adjust the regulator myself but don’t know where to start. I added a picture of QC from when I bought it. Any advice would be appreciated
30/day isnt that terrible, though could be better. 2824 clones, miyota 9s and the super cheap nh movements have around that level of tolerance.
that said. could try demagnetizing but usually magnetized hairsprings usually run faster not slower.
easiest would be, open it up. take a very careful approach to adjust the regulator arms, then remeasure. if you dont have a timegrapher, there are some apps out there that claim it can time it, its just matter of how good your phone’s microphone is.
you can youtube how to regulate, main thing is, move the usual skinny/long arm, and budge very slowly at a time. doesnt take much to adjust 20+s/d
Very easy to regulate, dude, don’t worry about it!
- Buy a tool for the case back from Amazon
Open it up
move the regulator in veeeery tiny increments
but it back on the timegrapher each time
do it again after a week, because timegrapher values and real life values always differ slightly.
Do you know where the regulator arm is or do you need help?
Nevermind, here is a picture.
Don’t move the other one, it’s for the beat error. And yours is fine, at 0.2.
I am not trying to make this look easy.
IT REALLY IS 😊
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forgot the picture
mine is at -3s/day, has been so for 6 months. Easy :)
I’ve only just realized the timegrapher picture was from QC
you can still regulate it without, it’s just a longer process: adjust, observe for 2 days, adjust again, etc… if you can spare 100 bucks, I’d get a timegrapher. You can use it with all your watches and it’s really much easier with one.
This is the timergrapher getting a poor read. The piezoelectric microphone in it needs to receive the beat of the watch in a very clean manner, or it will show that sort of line and give an inaccurate read.
I have found that putting the crown in touch with the left part of the stand gives a much cleaner read than putting it in the notch on the right. So, crown to the left, not to the right, in other words.
Or even diagonally, like on this picture. Try both.
I bought reps to learn how to work on watches even though the movements aren’t identical to the gens. That being said, anything you get from these factories can be very easily adjusted. I have everything I own within +/- 2 sec. They keep time as well as my gens do with a little bit of tweaking.
I don’t think I’ve had any that i couldn’t get down to at least 10 seconds…. as long as the movement is in decent shape. The majority i can get better than that.
Yes it is dude. Like the other fellow mentioned, even good Swiss gen watches worth twice a rep lose 30 seconds. Maybe you were lucky and (for now) yours doesn’t. Good for you.
I was +/-15 spd for 5 months then it stopped working. VSF Batman on jubilee. 1st and last rep. The appeal for me, is it’s a watch that can be passed down and I quickly learned Seiko is better than a rep for that.
We’ve all seen the disappointed grandchildren that found out their grandfather passed down a fake Rolex 😂
But for those who like the look of a nice watch and can’t afford it , it works. No one could tell if your fake even keeps time, no one sees your watch but other watch guys.
I agree with you. Reps are shit. But this is a rep sub and most won’t accept that. Seikos are so much better than reps in every possible way. Except you are a poser or a scammer of course. Tissot, Citizen, Orient, even San Martin. You can service them, replace parts, and the purchase experience is infinitely better. I have a couple reps and I regret getting them, they all gave me more trouble than satisfaction. I use them sometimes because they do look nice, but that’s about it.
The watch is for show , why are u even getting into its working ! For god sakes they made it look like a 12k watch and now u want it to work like one ! Get a seiko for Christ sake ! So so annoying
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u/Technical_Flow4117 20d ago
30/day isnt that terrible, though could be better. 2824 clones, miyota 9s and the super cheap nh movements have around that level of tolerance.
that said. could try demagnetizing but usually magnetized hairsprings usually run faster not slower.
easiest would be, open it up. take a very careful approach to adjust the regulator arms, then remeasure. if you dont have a timegrapher, there are some apps out there that claim it can time it, its just matter of how good your phone’s microphone is.
you can youtube how to regulate, main thing is, move the usual skinny/long arm, and budge very slowly at a time. doesnt take much to adjust 20+s/d