Monster Problems

[TomE]

I've had my orange monster for quite a while now, and it has never let me down, however yesterday things started to go wrong.

When I awoke yesterday morning, I noticed the watch had stopped at 11.45pm the night previously - unusual as it normally has enough reserve to keep it going for a couple of days. I gave it a wiggle and it started again but then stopped straight away once I stopped wiggling, as if it wasn't going to hold any charge.

I tried to reset the time and the was an audible "click" as I wound the hands forward, almost as if something had jammed. Once the time was set I then noticed it was running extremely fast (c. 10 mins fast an hour), but did seem to be holding some reserve power however the watch stopped again at 11.45pm last night.

I don't really want to wind it on again after hearing the "click" noise yesterday - I was just wondering if anyone has any idea of what could be wrong and where the best place to get it fixed would be? Should I just run it into my local jewellers or are there any places online that are recommended?

[ShadownINja]

Steve at Ryte Time is the man for the job.

[bry1975]

Either ask Steve to service the watch or fit a replacement movement at £20-£30.

Certainly sounds like the watch needs a good clean probably got a knackered mainspring.


Regs


Bry

[LukeBird]

Had a very similar problem with my neo-Monster not long ago. It was a stuck hairspring.
It cost not a lot to get sorted.

[bry1975]

Hairspring should be an easy fix!

Regs


Bry

[TomE]

Great cheers for the advice guys, I'll drop Steve a line and see what he says. Although presumably, if its a simple fix, I could maybe run it to a local jewellers to get the thing back on the road asap?

[LukeBird]

TomE said:

Great cheers for the advice guys, I'll drop Steve a line and see what he says. Although presumably, if its a simple fix, I could maybe run it to a local jewellers to get the thing back on the road asap?

You could do, a local watchmaker should be fine.
Steve will turn it around quickly though I would have thought, I'd call him.

[ShadownINja]

The main issue for me is trusting the person to do a good job... Steve serviced my Omega SMP and I have had no problems.

[bry1975]

Only send the watch to someone you trust as the standard jeweller will probably gouge the watch case!