Rolex gaining time

[deansot53]

My 2009 Rolex Millgaus bought from news gains 8-10 seconds a day. I took it to a dealer who tested the balance and said was ok but as played golf the movement would be over as the hairspring would need oil in /service.
Any advice rather than service to slow it down ?
I do leave overnight with winder facing up to help.

[Roadblocked]

Isn't it getting close to service time anyway if it's a 2009?

Why are you opposed to getting it serviced?

[padi56]

Originally Posted by deansot53

My 2009 Rolex Millgaus bought from news gains 8-10 seconds a day. I took it to a dealer who tested the balance and said was ok but as played golf the movement would be over as the hairspring would need oil in /service.
Any advice rather than service to slow it down ?
I do leave overnight with winder facing up to help.

i would expect your dealer tested the movements amplitude and oil on the hairspring would make it stick and movement would run erratic or even stop.But first it would depend on your wearing habits and on your testing method and on the state of the power reserve in the mainspring when time checked. Have you ever given your watch a full manual wind if not fully wind your watch first 40 full crown turns clockwise you cannot over-wind it.Then sync your watch with a reliable time source for this test any quartz watch or clock will do.Now wear your watch for around 8-10 hours a day,check time once a day only with the setting source write it down daily over 5 full days the loss or gain.Then average out the loss or gain over the 5 days for a accurate result.Then after test if watch is out of the COSC spec a AVERAGE of around -2 to +4 seconds over any 24 hour period get it regulated.Now regulation is a very simple task takes around 20-30 minutes start to finish,but if watch goes back to the RSC expect 4 weeks before you get watch back and seeing its from 2009 might need a full service.

[landroverking]

Well it is close to service time. And there's no way of knowing how long it sat at the AD before you brought it home.
I would check it daily at the same time over a week before I would spring for RSC service.

[Tools]

Originally Posted by deansot53

My 2009 Rolex Millgaus bought from news gains 8-10 seconds a day. I took it to a dealer who tested the balance and said was ok but as played golf the movement would be over as the hairspring would need oil in /service.
Any advice rather than service to slow it down ?
I do leave overnight with winder facing up to help.

Have it regulated (not serviced) to your wearing habits; just tell the watchmaker that it is 8-10 seconds fast. (providing that you are correctly testing this)

The "hairspring" never gets oil - ever !!!

[vman]

+8-10 seconds is a bit fast. Mine has been +0.5 secs if that....