The Microstella tool
The Rolex Microstella Tool The Microstella is Rolex system to adjust the balance wheel to make sure the watch keep the COSC standard. To do that there is a special tool to adjust the screws with. The old tool looks like this and it's oil filled to be a li...
Now that's a watch savant!
You are one crazy Watch Santa! Congrats on achieving theoretical 0 seconds a day! And... When can I borrow your Lange?
Very cool I love seeing this type of work!
I gather when you make an adjustment you do it to the screw and the opposite screw? How do you decide which pair of screws?
I set the screws in the middle position
Then I try to get all four screws at the same height to avoid imbalance. There is some adjusting before you reach a good result.
In fact
Not many dare to get into a Rolex, but that's what you have to do as they are easy to work with and difficult to break. Logical solutions that can be understood. I probably wouldn't have get into a Patek, I also have limits, even if it doesn't seem like i...
Of course
As I usually say to the Danes, the only thing that is better in Denmark than in Sweden is the view over the strait. 😂
If you look at the tool
so is there a triangle shaped metal part inside. That on is mounted with a axle at the center and turn around inside like a rotor on a automatic movement. Then you read the markers inside the tool when you adjust, one marker is one second. So the oil help...
Ah ha....
So the viscosity of the oil stabilizes the the rotor/pointer? I think I get it....
