What's on your wrist? / What are you wearing? (WRUW)

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Back from TH. Serviced and refinished....

Oh FFS, I just realised the backlight isn't working. It was working when I sent it in. I guess it'll be gone for another three bastard months!
 
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Oh FFS, I just realised the backlight isn't working. It was working when I sent it in. I guess it'll be gone for another three bastard months!
Their quality control really needs some attention. When my Carrera reissue was serviced, they polished it when I asked them not to, and it also had to go back a second time as it wasn't keeping time within spec. At least they came good with a free new strap and refunded half the service cost, though!
 
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Strange thing is the second hand should stop while the light is on and jump forward to where it should have been. Even if the light didn't work I would still expect the hand to stop, right? Which suggests they've changed the movement and replaced it with a movement that doesn't have a backlight. :whipped:
 
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Strange thing is the second hand should stop while the light is on and jump forward to where it should have been. Even if the light didn't work I would still expect the hand to stop, right? Which suggests they've changed the movement and replaced it with a movement that doesn't have a backlight. :whipped:
Ah yes, the greedy Swiss and their classic interpretation of "servicing". Just save money by replacing the whole movement with a brand new one :thumbsup:

Don't you think they will come back to you to say that the lack of backlight is a characteristic of this movement ;)
 
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Strange thing is the second hand should stop while the light is on and jump forward to where it should have been. Even if the light didn't work I would still expect the hand to stop, right? Which suggests they've changed the movement and replaced it with a movement that doesn't have a backlight. :whipped:

What was wrong with it? I wouldn't expect a quartz to be serviceable, beyond a battery change
 
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The hands lost time. But the digital display didn't. I changed the battery but it didn't solve it. It was losing like half an hour a day by the time it went back, at first it was a minute or something.
 
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Ah yes, the greedy Swiss and their classic interpretation of "servicing". Just save money by replacing the whole movement with a brand new one :thumbsup:

Don't you think they will come back to you to say that the lack of backlight is a characteristic of this movement ;)

I wouldn't put it past them. The movement has been upgraded by removing one of the coolest features... I can hear it now.
 
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It was originally an ETA movement, maybe they have replaced with Selitta equivalent which doesn't have the light?
 
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I reckon this is just a standard issue with the calibre
 
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