Automatic Big Wrist Watch
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VINTAGE EGOSTA AUTOMATIC WRISTWATCH BLUE – BIG / FPR $9.99 |
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Big Black Dial Men Automatic Mechanical Wrist Watch 333 $4.99 |
Is it big job to service a automatic wrist watch ?
The approved dealer wants to keep mine 12 days 
Hi Clare,thanks for caring i’ll be using the one my Dad left me whilst mine will be serviced. x x
Normally the basic service job itself takes anywhere between twenty minutes to an hour or two.
The additional time (up to a month or more in some awkward cases) is to make sure that the watch is keeping good time and to enable fine adjustments to the mechanism and twelve days is a much faster turnaround than many. Many fine quality Swiss watch mechanisms are regulated by the manufacturer for six months to a year before they’re passed as certified chronometers and installed into a watch casing.
Also, as one of the other answers mentioned, the watch could simply be going into a queue for work to be done in which case there is a basic service/cleaning but only a brief check over about twenty-four hours for accuracy.
Another likely possibility is that twelve days allows the approved dealer sufficient turnaround time to send the watch away to a workshop possibly even in another country.
