Gravity pulls on the balance differently depending on how the watch lies. If your watch keeps good time on your wrist and drifts overnight on the nightstand, nothing is wrong with it. You have noticed positional variance, which every mechanical watch has. Gravity pulls on the balance wheel differently depending on how the watch is […]
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Mega Chief in black and gold, and the Framed solar model in red. Diesel does not sell a watch so much as sell a size. The signature Mega Chief measures 51 mm across, which is larger than most dive watches and roughly the diameter of a drinks coaster. That is a deliberate choice rather than
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Copper reacting with sweat. Harmless, alarming, and easy to stop. A green mark under a watch looks like a reaction to something toxic and is neither toxic nor a reaction in the medical sense. It is copper. Copper in the case or bracelet reacts with the salts and acids in sweat, forms copper salts, and
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The rotor spins on a bearing. On some movements you can hear it. Shake an automatic watch gently near your ear and most of them make a noise. New owners find this alarming and it is nearly always the watch working correctly. The rotor is a weighted semicircle that spins freely on a bearing, and
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Skagen Grenen Solar in front, Signatur behind, Hagen rectangular at left. Skagen sits in an odd spot. It looks like a Danish design house, it is named after a fishing town on the northern tip of Jutland, and it is owned outright by a company in Dallas, Texas. That ownership is the most useful fact
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The heart cam is what snaps a hand back to zero, and it can be reset. A chronograph hand sitting a few seconds off zero looks like damage and is usually a sequence problem you can fix in ten seconds. The reset pusher only works when the chronograph is stopped. Press it while the chronograph
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Dried salt in the teeth is abrasive, and abrasive is what wears a click spring. A dive bezel that has gone stiff, gritty or completely solid is one of the most common watch complaints and one of the easiest to fix at home. It is almost never a broken part. It is almost always dried
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The mechanism is fine. It has simply been told the wrong twelve hours. If your date flips over at lunchtime instead of midnight, nothing is broken and nothing needs a watchmaker. The watch is running twelve hours out. A mechanical watch has no way of knowing whether it is morning or evening, so it changes
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Emporio Armani chronographs and a rose gold-tone dress model. Giorgio Armani has never built a watch. The company designs clothes, and it rents its name to people who do. Since 1997 those people have been Fossil Group in Dallas, which designs, manufactures and distributes every Emporio Armani watch sold. That single fact explains almost everything
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Before assuming it is broken, work out which hand you are looking at. A stopped seconds hand looks like a dead watch and very often is not, because on a great many watches the large central seconds hand is not the running seconds at all. On any chronograph it is the stopwatch hand, and it
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