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Re: What is required in regulating a watch?

Your watch is within C.O.S.C. specs. The Swatch Group repair center will only regulate your watch within this standard, therefore, your watch might end up gaining +4 seconds a day after being serviced, which is also within C.O.S.C. specs. I doubt that any service center would be willing to go through the trouble of trying to regulate your watch to exactly +1/-1 seconds per 24 hrs.

Common man

: I have a Speedmaster Date which gains about 4-6
: seconds/day, I have been reading that people
: have had their watches regulated to gain 1
: second every 24 hours, in any position,
: which sounds quite appealing to me, I was
: wondering how long it takes to do that if I
: were to take it to the Swatch Group Repair
: centre is it something that can be done in
: one day, or is the process itself very time
: consuming?

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