Trusted Dealers Servicing

[ceejay]

Just wandering what your experiences/thoughts are on the servicing that some of the dealers offer.

Has anyone done a review or strip down of a watch that they paid the extra for the pre-service?

 

I am about to put a fair amount down on a watch and was wandering whether to have it serviced by the dealer or have it serviced elsewhere.

 

Your thought would be apreciated.

[shirotenshi]

Get it service elsewhere is a better bet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Mike on a bike]

Ditto.

[icoopernicus]

Dear god/Jesus/pick your poison, get it serviced elsewhere!!! for the minimal additional cost over servicing by a TD you get to assurance that it will be done and done properly by a watchmaker. 

[van_damme1988]

Get it serviced anywhere else. I tried it once, paid $120 for service offered by TT (for non chrono movement - SuperOcean 42), which should include waterproofing, oiling, time accuracy regulation and at QC it was showing +3 seconds per day. Somehow i do not believe it really was serviced. I believe, that timegrapher results were sent to me before the watch was opened, sprayed by all of those 4 oils and sent to me. In fact it is running avg. 20 seconds per day... For that price i could have it at least relumed. So you should better contact one of our great modders/watchmakers and ask them. You can read about their great work through the forums and it is worth it

[van_damme1988]

Thanks MD2020 for your answer. I have used the word "sprayed" just to make my words sound somewhat less serious. I know that movement shoud when properly serviced is oiled litteraly by precise amount of drops. I remember a post by you or Rolexman that was redirecting to eta site as there was some interesting app showing how to assemble an eta movement step by step with oiling process. So i bear this in mind. However i am still a lay person and cannot say if the service was provided or nor as well as i cannot tell what is the quality of service provided by TDs. I was also searching for som reviews on this movement service here, on rwi and rg, but had no luck to find something. The fact is, that only pics that were sent to me were standard qc pictures + one timegrapher pic. So nothing were you can see the stripped watch or that the service really was provided, like you do (i have seen a7750 avenger you posted few months ago, but this "experience" was nothing like that). So i would be interested to see what the quality of movement service provided by TDs really is as well So i do agree if you are willing to have a look at my watch, we can get in touch. Maybe the service is really good and it can help a lot of people in the future. I will let you know via PM when i get home if you agree and we can agree on that. Can be?