Watch Repair: TAG Heuer WE1210-R / ETA 955.412

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maintenance, replacement of waterproof components, travel time performance and movement detection power, clean movement, appearance and conservation. Such maintenance service will effectively extend your mechanical watch time.

As you all know, we don’t do quartz watches, but this one if from a parent from my youngest daughters playgroup, so we do make exceptions

The poor watch has lost the luminous compound from the hour hand, and the bezel ring has gone awol. Being a TAG Heuer WE1210-R / ETA 955.412, you can’t buy spares as an independent, so we have to get a bit creative here

No wonder TAG watches are so expensive – the ETA 955.412 will set you back a whopping £ 10 wholesale, and the plastic case ring, injection moulded by Tibetan virgins, will add another £ 0.10 to the production cost. So well worth every penny you pay for it

The hour hand has lost its luminous compound.

As I can’t buy a new bezel, it’s off to my trusted lathe.

Voila – new luminous compound, and a hand-made bezel ring, and we are back in business.

So?

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