Small regulator adjustment?

I have an Invicta with a Miyota movement which was running quite well. When
I first got it a couple of years ago I regulated it to a very good rate
after a few tries (by trial and error - no Vibrograph). Recently I decided
that it was running a little slow so I decide to give it a teeensy shove to
the + side. This set the watch maybe 10 or 15 secs fast/day. I then shoved
it back - now 10 or 15 secs/slow. And back again, now too fast, then back,
now too slow, etc. I'm moving the regulator as little as I can. Is there
some trick to moving the regulator an ultra-tiny amount?

I'm beginning to love the ETA micro-regulator more and more. It also
surprises me that the pocket watches of the 19th century had "patent
regulators" but that watches that were built yesterday don't have this
useful refinement.


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