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Just taken a brief look at U toob and it appears that this watch does seem to be reasonably well received by a fair number of mugs err people, or have Smersh err Spectre err Swatch (thats right isnt it) deleted all the bad posts? Careful what you say or the new CEO may come round and make you uncomfortable.

Hi to all, This is Andrea Cardenas, a new guy to the member.I am also a newbie here. Very excited to interact with all of view. Looking forward to share my craft ideas and learn something new from you'll too. With regards Andrea Cardenas

Indeed I will look into it and see if I can make this bad boy at less a 8 jewel lol

Hello lr1022, The cost of oil is one of the problems that hobbyists have all wrestled with and I spent hours searching the web for small amounts at reasonable prices but regrettably I found a remarkable similarity in pricing from all suppliers of Moebius oils for instance. If you are just practising, a cheap working watch is a worthwhile purchase, strip and clean it then use a cheap generic watch oil when putting it back together. It is hardly worth spending much on oil for a cheap Chinese movement for instance, however, you will still gain the learning experience. If you trawl old postings in the forum you will find good reasons to spend more on oil for treasured watches. I used to try to restrict my interest to just a couple of makes - Accutron and Tissot and only bought the oils for them but over time I weakened and started looking at other movements. You will find guidance on the forum for the subject. Mark has covered the topic for instance and we have an oil specialist who gave quite a detailed post on oil generally. Just put in a search. In conclusion, if the watch you work on is expensive or treasured you probably should use good oil and that I'm afraid comes at a premium. Cheers and welcome, Vich

Look at the whole watch. If the case is reasonable tight.. (waterproof is good). and used normally. then I'd say you're good for 5 years. This is for good quality newer watches like omega, seikos... you get the idea. Not only is dust getting in the case a problem.. if the watch is not reasonably tight the oils will dry out faster. If the watch is not wterproof and / or sees rough use I would adjust the interval to around 2 years, talk to the owner to see how he plans to use the watch. Russian watches have a combination of poor cases and designed with a weaker mainspring than is usually found in a similar swiss watch.. hence need to be serviced more regularly. Watches with hi-beat (36000bph) needs good fresh oil. Chronos need servicing at 5yrs ... anything more is pushing it. Dress watches with slim mvts have less powerful springs and fine pivots (less energy available) and need more frequent servicing. Dress watch cases are also pretty easily compromised! You will usually see them coming in regularly for service as they spend a lot of time in the drawer waiting for special occassions and the oil dries out.. result non-running watch. then maybe learn As Geo said, if you dont know the history... get it serviced. HTH Anil Some watches have weak points.. the intermediate winding gear on the automatic module on some Zenith chronos is a good example. On a lesser note, seikos are generally fine but the rotor bearing inariably wears. Rolexes will tolerate a lot of abuse due to the integrity of the case but you will sometimes come across models with a lot of wear as the robust movements keep on working ... worn rotor bearings is common on older rolexes.

I have no idea, it is a link to the forum "link of world wide suppliers" section. The link works for me from my PC. Maybe it is an Apple thing.