More Russian fun. A before and after picture of the Sekonda which I posted about previously.
This arrived as a non runner (as most of my watches do).
I cleaned and serviced it yesterday and have been wearing it most of today, to let the lubrication bed in.
When I got it going initially it showed evidence of previous tinkering and was sitting with a beat error of 14ms or more and rattling away at +85 sec/day or so.
I just checked it again, having left it at +70s/day yesterday, in the hope that as the lube settled, the rate would fall, as indeed it has.
Dial up
Dial down
As you can see it is slightly stronger dial up, but I'll let it run a bit longer, then set it around -5s/day dial up and see how it goes for the next 24hrs.
I'm pretty pleased with the results so far, including the date change which fired at almost exactly midnight last night. Yes, I am sad enough to have sat and watched it.
This particular caliber the Raketa 2628.H also has a date quick change by pulling the crown to position 3 returning to 2, rinse, repeat etc.. A bit of a novelty when you have been dealing with ancient Timexes, with all of their fiddling with spinning backwards and forwards of the hands round midnight to get things set correctly.
The 17jewels.info page has a partial tear down which gives a hint about this feature, which you might not be aware of.
All in all, this is another pretty nice watch, especially considering its pocket money price.