IWC Ownership
Mondaine Railroad Watch
Several months ago I noticed my Aquatimer had a problem: when I used the chronograph to time something and then stopped the hands without resetting them, the hour hand would continue going. It took me quite a while to figure this out. Previously, I would occasionally wonder why the hour sub-dial was at some strange position after I had used the chronograph.
So I took the watch to the Tourneau where I bought it, and they sent it in for a warranty repair. I couldn’t stand being without a decent watch for who knows how many weeks, so I bought a Mondaine Swiss Railroad quartz watch. It’s nice, but it’s no IWC.
My watch came back from service about two months later. The problem was fixed, as expected. Interestingly, while the Aquatimer had previously run about 1.5 seconds slow per day, after repair it started out at 9.5 seconds fast day. It has slowed down a bit since then, but it’s definitely less precise than before. However, at least now it’s within the official IWC targets of 0-10s fast.
Lately the watch bug has bitten me again, and I find myself browsing watch sites and checking ebay. We’ll see if this ends well for me…
