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VicLeChic
PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:54 pm 
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At this point of your bad luck with Breitling, I don't see what could possibly restore your trust . Based on your experience, I would just try and get my money back. If not possible, I would flip the replacement watch or repaired watch. Game over. Life's too short. Plenty of alternatives out there.

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emile.grundlingh wrote:
gbuergisser wrote:
Hmm, what about magnetic fields? Could they damage a mechanical watch so bad and maybe leave a quarz watch such as the B50 intact?
However, I hope the whole story will come to a good end! Good luck!


There can't be any mechanical fields. The watches slept on a watch winder at night. Away from anything. There's an iMac about a meter away from it at night. In the day time the watch is on my arm and I move around. When sitting at my office desk the watch comes off my wrist and sits on the desk about 30cm away from the Laptop. So, I don't think magnets is the problem.


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Could that be enough, though? Not saying that's what the problem is, but is there enough strength in a laptop's hard drive to reach the watch at this distance?

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No , it will be a negligible amount , just like the amount put out by the watchwinder it sits on every night .....

However , if there happens to be badly shielded speakers attached to that laptop and the watch sits on them it could be a problem !! :)

I imagine they could easily do a check to see of the spring has been magnetized , or even install a new one to eliminate this theory .
Although a slightly magnetized mechanical watch should run fast , at least until the spring gets magnetized badly enough to stick ...
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No one is going to replace a hairsping to solve magnetism, they'll just pass it through a demagnetiser, takes less than 5 seconds. AThe watch in question here did not get magnetised by being 30cm from a laptop, it would be closer to that when being worn when using the laptop.
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