blenny100
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Spoke to Breguet
Well, I spoke to a senior member of the staff at the outlet. Far more knowledgable, and much more helpful. He indicated that the Reine de Naples has an off-centered balance and uses a uni-directional (counter-clockwise) winding motion. It requires at least 700 TPD to wind. This answers part of my question.
In addition, he mentioned that the watch might have an overbanking problem (having the balance staff oscillate so quickly that the fork of the lever fails to engage, rendering the escapement inoperative therefore causing it to run "fast" when fully wound). If this is the case it'll need to go back to Switzerland to be re-built! In any case, I am pleased at the detailed response, and overall good customer service.
I'm going to do some further testing to see if this is the issue. Mystery solved ... I find myself with an acceptable answer to the issue ... the only unfortunate thing for my wife is potentially having to lose the watch for a few months while it is serviced!
Trouble with a Reine de Naples
I purchased a Reine de Naples for my wife. After using the watch for a few weeks (without any issues) we put the watch onto a watch winder (I have three of the same model watch winders, one for my IWC perpetual calendar, another for my Breguet 5207, and a...
Just a thought...
Potentially the magnetic field emitted by the (working) watch winder could have affected the timekeeping of your wife's watch. I am doubtful that the statement by the technician is correct.
That does sound odd...
Hello blenny 100 Does your wife's watch have a power reserve indicator? If yes, when you took it off the automatic winder did it appear to have a full wind? When the mainspring in a watch runs down, or has a low power reserve. The watch will run fast, bec...
Spoke to Breguet
Well, I spoke to a senior member of the staff at the outlet. Far more knowledgable, and much more helpful. He indicated that the Reine de Naples has an off-centered balance and uses a uni-directional (counter-clockwise) winding motion. It requires at leas...