Bought myself a Portofino in 2004.
Up untill now its running with an unbelievable deviation of 0.8 sec/day.
Thats the reason I'm in doubt to bring the watch for servicing.
Affraid for an increased deviation after servicing.
Is there anyone who has an experience with servicing and the results on adjustment of the caliber?
With regards
Rob
My advice: if it's not broken, don't fix it....
...I know other will disagree, since there is something to be said for preventive maintenance, but I personally adhere to that philosophy. With a menagerie of watches, I'd otherwise be sending watches in and receiving them back all the time.
Regards,
Michael
Agree, because of remarkable advice of Shaffhausen
While visiting the IWC factory more than a year ago I got the advice: the simpler watches once in five years, the complicated ones only when problems arise. I didn't see the logic in it, and decided to expand the advice on the more complicated watches to the simpler ones. Until now none of my watches were serviced, all run quite well.
Kind regards,
Paul, wearing rose gold VC Portuguese
PS: At a farewell party of a colleague I saw someone with a rose gold Portuguese Automatic. It really looked magnificent and big on a strange wrist a few feet away: only when inspecting it a bit more closely it regained its familiar appearance to me.
