Re: Small regulator adjustment?



Jack Denver wrote:
> 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.

Some regulators on those old pocket watches were absolutely beautiful
in addition to being precise mechanisms. The fine regulators seen
today are just as functional but plain in comparison.

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