How To Adjust your Automatic Watch Speed in less than 3 Minutes 

Really do not try this unless you have a timegrapher, if you are not careful you'll spend days on it and make it worse. You need to check the beat as well, set beat first if needed then set the speed, with a timegrapher this is relatively easy as you can measure as you go. If you fiddle too much with the settings without the timegrapher you can get to a position where the watch runs badly and you can't find your way back.

I realize this is an older video, but anytime a mechanical watch is running that fast, Before you do any poking around . Check the watch to see if it is magnetized. The balance wheel spring/hair spring is easily magnetized by any number of electrical sources that are so common today. cell phones, almost any electronic equipt. Speakers etc. Very common problem. Easily diagnosed and solved. If you have a pocket compass simply pass it next to the watch if you get a significant deflection of the compass needle, it is magnetized. When someone brings me a watch with this large of a time gain the first thing I do is check for magnetic problems. A sudden gain of 25 sec/day or more is almost always a magnetic problem. trying to correct the problem by doing what you did will almost always compound the correction issues after demagnetizing/degaussing the movement. Without a timegrapher you are spinning your wheels. There are apps for iphone and android that can help. Gauss meters, and timegrapers. The phone timegraphers are reliant on the quality of the microphone . This video unfortunately won't help much.

Great video, thank you! I used a loupe (old eyes!) and took a photo of the position of the adjuster through the loupe so that I could gauge how far I had moved the adjuster. I have got it very close to perfect! Thanks again.

I noticed that after you adjusted the regulator it moved quite far so I imagine it ended up going too slow. I have some experience regulating automatic watches and is such that moving the regulator lever 1mm can make it go from fast to slow, but I usually manage to get about *10 seconds a day. I have a Steeldive watch that suddenly sped up from +5 seconds a day to +20 seconds a day, but I didn’t need to open the watch as I Googled the symptoms and found that it had become magnetised which speeds it up considerably. A cheap demagnetiser bought from Amazon solved the problem. I would advise anyone opening a watch to regulate it should hack the movement first to prevent damaging the rotating hair spring, which happened to me with 2 Invicta watches, then restart the watch after adjusting the regulator.

Helped me with my Rado. Saved a couple of hundred dollars and on the other hand gave a love time of joy playing with Time.

This vid is so helpful. Thank you. I've been having problem with my grandpa's old Seiko that is going way too fast.

Awesome thank you. Dug out one of my older Invicta's with a nice Seiko movement. NO I didn't have it in the winder.... and it was running wicked fast. Cant let nice things SIT. Thanks to this video and already owning the tools... ive got it down to 1 minute fast in 24 hours. was running 15 min fast every 3 hours. WOW. or about 1.5 hours just over night.... Thank you.

Very precise and to the point .Full marks

Thank you 😊. Concise and to the point

Spoke with my supply house/watchmaker sometime ago about any specific tool that would adjust the regulator lever on the balance cock. There appears to be non. Pushing the lever is just too course of an adjustment. I'm still looking for such a tool or may have to fashion one from a tinny socket driver using a Dremel.

Very helpful video- Thanx for the upload! (And that's a nice watch, too)

Awesome vid...3 minutes simple answer

Good video, but I recommend to use a wooden toothpick instead of a screwdriver in case it's magnetised.

Same problem with my watch... Thanks for the info

Such a dope watch! Now I have to have one hehe

A good DIY way to save $$$ and keep your watch as close as possible to the time.

Your a champion thanks for the great video

Good video. Thanks for the help as mine's about a minute fast every day too.

fantastic informational video.

Thank you ,easier than I thought

What if that thing doesn't spin at all, can I fix it somehow, shops in my town refused to repair it, they just opened the case saw that it didn't work and said me to buy a new one

Thank for the tip

Awesome thank you i will try it soon

thank you so much!!!

I have the same watch and love the way it looks. I have it adjusted and it runs 10 seconds fast per day. Is this the best I can hope for?

i have the same watch, and i love your breclet, what is the name of those nice bracelet?

It can actually be opened with just a normal flat screwdriver. Great video!

Very good.

Is it ok if i pull the corona first to stop the watch moving before calibration? I am afraid of reaching the wheel and ruin the clock.

What clamp or vice are you using? What's the brand and model? Tried googling but couldn't a vice that you were using. Seems to be a very good vice compared to others.

Hi @ BadAssEngineering. I already adjusted my Seiko 5 twice but it still turns very fast. It is advanced for almost 1 hour a day.

Thank you

Does doing such thing void warranty?

So if my watch is running 10sec fast each day I probably shouldnt worry about it?

Very interesting and I followed step by step the instructions. Despite this, my Kamasu always goes too fast I have to say that I had fallen months ago and has since lost my accuracy. If you have the urge and patience, can you suggest something more effective, or the only solution is to take it to a watchmaker? 🤔

Hi my orient open heart only moves when it faced down is there a fix for this?

*I used 5dolars watch 20years it was that watch with light in side now I use phone as watch cose they get broken and need clean...2years ago give me my friend watch like in this video they go to fast but im to lazy to open it cose in back I have glass and dont see the + and - symbols... I will ask u what to do give it to someone else as gift?*

Hi,do you have any idea,after I did the same thing to my seiko,the escapement stop running?

I have a 40yrs old seiko5 7009 which was running pretty good but then it suddenly sped to 10 hours in a day thats very stange?does this adjusment make it work properly?

Does this mean i can turn my regular 2 cycles a day 12 hour watch into a one cycle 24 hour watch ? Will this put any strain on the parts on the long run? I have a bulova classic automatic skeleton dial 98A179 . Thanks

*I have watch like this and on back is glass but I dont see that + or - ...*

Thanks bruh

Easy fix 20/50 engine oil if its fast or wd40 if it's slow. Sorted.

What was the result?

Tnx ,,my Seiko also advance 1 minute per 5 days

my wheel is not moving at all what could be wrong?

Does opening and closing the watch affect the water resistance?

You explained about running fast what about running slow ? I just got a new rado watch it was running good up to the time until recently it slows down to like 5 mins after couple of days idk why

You said the watch is running fast, so you adjusted the movement to go even faster?

Could have used the Watch Tuning App !

how about chinese watch is it have same method?

did that slight movement slow the watch down?

No! Non fatelo mai da soli! È un lavoro che può fare soltanto un orologiaio con le sue attrezzature! 😮

what is the bottom lever for?

i moved it too much and it moved the bigger one underneath it......

I reached the maximum slowest point but still my watch completes a minute in 55 sec. what to do? I dont have any sort of repairshop in my country for automatic watch

Don't do this without a timegrapher

Is this appicable also for seiko5 divers??

I have a really old watch and it's seems that even on the slowest setting it's to fast

My vintage citizen running 8 minutes slow per hour will doing this adjust to run faster

How come so easy

My Timex automatic is losing about 1/2 hour per day. Is that something I can fix with the plus-minus regulator? Or does the watch need to be cleaned inside? Thanks.

I moved the small lever to slow it down and now the watch doesn't work, the piece under the lever that rotates back and forward no longer moves. Gutted

Lol that was a huge adjustment

I have 2 watches. Both are Casio, except one is a $90 G- Shock and the other is a $27 regular Casio. Ironically, the G-Shock runs like 30 seconds too fast per month and the regular Casio runs less than half a second slow per month. (Almost perfect) They're both digital. I just don't know how to adjust the speed on the G-Shock to slow it down some. It's a very nice G-Shock. Very good quality materials. Very comfortable. However, what bothers me is its inaccuracy. 🤔

Can you please make a video to slow down time on a digital watch?? As this video is not helpful for those who wear digital watches!!

Hi brother thank you for this video the machine or dinner or fuck please I need somebody answer this machine origin in Japan or Chinese???

That's an ugly ass watch. Love it

Bit concerned about your hands shaking

A bit disappointing to see the plastic movement holder, whereas Mako 2 and Ray 2 have the metal holder...

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Swiss watches are much easier to regulate because they have screws, I hate the Asian types.