Hi,
I see Frenchie questioned my term of flea bites. Good thing I didn't use the other term used of chigger bites. By the way a chigger is a small insect that likes to burrow under your skin and itches like crazy. I'm from the southern US and we can speak a slowly and colorfully at times.
I was initially asked to check the watch out and repair a badly worn band. When I put the watch on my timegraph it was reading all over the place. Beat error kept changing. I contacted the owner and told him that watch needed servicing badly and he said to fix it and that it had been set up by someone so he could wear it on his right arm. Now I have sent him pictures of what I found just so he will be aware. Yes watch ran but I have to be concerned with my reputation. This is the second Rolex I have repaired for this family. What if several years from now someone else worked on the watch and shows the owner the damage saying, "look at what the last guy who worked on this watch did"? The owner of this watch has a great attachment to it and wears it a lot, the spring bars are so worn that the tube is worn so badly you can see the internal springs, the piece that attached to the clasp is so badly worn that it won't stay closed. His father gave it to him when he graduated high school. Yes when we close the back on a watch the customer may never know what kind of job we did but I think we owe it to him or her to do the best job possible and to take in consideration that the watch may need to be repaired again later. What if years from now he needs a new balance staff but the proper one doesn't fit because of the damaged mainplate? That's just my two cents for what it's worth.
Charles K