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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 179959, member: 25&quot;]<i>He wanted $600 to clean &amp; repair ( overwound) my dad&#039;s 50s era Swiss chronograph watch....but he said he&#039;d have to take it apart.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>No watch or clock since the abandonment of the fusee and chain in the 19th C has ever been overwound. It is layman speak for &quot;It is wound up but won&#039;t go&nbsp; and I have no idea why but do not want to look a fool&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>It guarantees you look like a fool to the repairman, who knows just what you mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>You cannot do a decent job cleaning a watch unless you take it apart and a chronograph has lots of extra fiddly parts to re-assemble.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can just put the movement in an ultrasonic tank, but you cannot properly relubricate it and the spring barrel will always retain some cleaning solution.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, $600 sounds steep. I estimate about 4 hours work done competently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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