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Alrighty, this may possibly be the last chapter in this horological drama. I finally received my 14060 back from RSC. They once again re-serviced it (so now it's had three services in the span of a little less than two years). They replace the bezel at no charge and replaced the crystal with a LEC crystal (the original was a non-LEC) at half price...I offered to pay for half on the crystal since it was already scuffed a little and it had a small micro-nick on the edge. The watch looks essentially brand new.

The problem with the watch continuing to hack after the crown has been screwed down is still present. They stated that some sort of lever was replaced and another part but apparently that didn't solve the problem so this will just have to be considered a "special trick" of the Caliber 3000. If I can find another Caliber 3000 equipped 14060 (or a 14270 I suppose), I'd love to be able to check and see if they exhibit this same "one weird trick".

I put it my Timegrapher and it seems that the amplitude has been increased even more. Compared to the 2nd service, it looks like whatever RSC did finally brought this 3000 caliber up to the amplitude I was expecting.


THIRD SERVICE
DU: 0 / 315 / 0.0
DD: +0.5 / 313 / 0.0
CU: +4 / 281 / 0.1
CD: -1.5 / 276 / 0.1
CR: +3 / 276 / 0.1
CL: 0.5 / 278 / 0.0
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AVG: +1.1 / 289.8 / 0.05

For comparison, here's what I got on the 1st and 2nd service.:

FIRST SERVICE (this was the problem that started it all)
DU: +6 / 236 / 0.3
DD: +1 / 238 / 0.1
CU: +4 / 203 / 0.4
CD: +6 / 199 / 0.0
CR: +1 / 201 / 0.3
CL: +8 / 194 / 0.1
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AVG: +4.3 / 211.8 / 0.21

SECOND SERVICE
DU: +2 / 281 / 0.0
DD: 0 / 286 / 0.1
CU: +4 / 249 / 0.0
CD: -1 / 246 / 0.2
CR: +1 / 244 / 0.0
CL: 0 / 249 / 0.2
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AVG: +1.0 / 258.7/ 0.08


Overall, this entire drama was a serious PITA despite the service cost refund and no-cost/minimal cost parts replacements, I would have been much happier if RSC had just done this right the first time. In retrospect, I probably should have just had my local independent do the service for a little more money as they seem to be more detail orientated on individual watches rather than RSC's "conveyor belt, one size fits all, customer doesn't know the difference" style of servicing. At least now my 14060 looks more or less like it originally did but in better condition. The movement's "one weird trick" hacking feature is annoying but I guess I'll just have to live with it...unless I find out that it only happens on my 14060...but hopefully...fin...