SOURCE: watch not keeping the right time
I wonder if someone (I usually blame my kids for that sort of thing) has dropped it and managed to get adjacent turns in the balance spring tangled. Finding out means opening the watch up, examining, and if necessary fiddling with the most delicate part of the movement - there's plenty of potential to do further harm. (The balance spring is hair spring that sits beside the little wheel that you'll see rocking back and forth to make the watch tick. It should be a neat, open, flat spiral). A.
SOURCE: Watch looses time when I wear it about 5 min an
Sounds like a problem with the balance wheel.(I assume that it does have one?)
They are designed to compensate for temperature but yours does not appear to be operating correctly.
Take it to a watch repairer for adjustment.
SOURCE: WATCH ON DESKFOR 24 HOURS
When a watch is on a desk, the balance wheel is vertical, when you are wearing it the balance wheel horizontal.
Has the watch been dropped onto a hard surface?
If the balance wheel bearing is worn or has suffered a large shock, then the shaft may move in its bearings or the bearings damaged, which may give the problem you decscribe.
Take it to a watch repairer to have it adjusted or repaired.
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