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Old 12 February 2009, 09:04 AM   #1
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Parachrom in the Oyster Precision 1960?

Hi, Gentleman's, I checked some of photographs of my Oyster Precision 1960 with 1225 movement, just returned from full service Rolex France, and my eye had been attracted by a color a little bit too "blue" of the hairspring.







I made a quick search on the Net and found only hairsprings color stainless steel





Here are two sites with photographs of Rolex Oyster Precision 1225 Movement, but that hairspring still color stainless steel.

http://www.clockmaker.com.au/w/rolex1.html

http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-...sau&1167235229

The question: could the Rolex France put me a hairspring Parachrom to me place original one, for lack of original parts (1960)?
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Old 12 February 2009, 12:52 PM   #2
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Blued hairspring, but not Parachrom. Parachrom is a new alloy that has only been around for hte last few years. Some old 15xx movements have blued hairsprings as well.
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Old 12 February 2009, 01:01 PM   #3
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i thought they give you a list of work done and parts replaced?
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Old 12 February 2009, 10:59 PM   #4
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i thought they give you a list of work done and parts replaced?
No, amigo, I have only an overage price and "light" description like:
Full service
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Old 12 February 2009, 11:42 PM   #5
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If this is true.....

Then I was right!

From a previous thread, I said Rolex would eventually phase out all their old springs and eventually replace them with new parachrom springs at service, if needed be.
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why wouldnt they phase out the old springs for new, improved springs if it increases the accuracy of the escapement?
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Old 13 February 2009, 01:45 AM   #7
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If this is true.....

Then I was right!

From a previous thread, I said Rolex would eventually phase out all their old springs and eventually replace them with new parachrom springs at service, if needed be.
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why wouldnt they phase out the old springs for new, improved springs if it increases the accuracy of the escapement?
There have been blue steel or blued alloy overcoil hairsprings in clocks and watches since the 1890s.And you just could not put in a parachrome spring in a older Rolex watch because the whole escapement is designed around original hairspring.And there is no real evidence that the parachrome blue hairspring is better than the hairsprings sourced by Nivarox that were used by Rolex for the last 40 odd years only the Rolex hype.And Nivarox is the name for the metal alloy that the spring is made from.These alloys are stainless steel Cobalt Nickel Chromium small amounts of titanium and Beryllium hairsprings made of this alloy are very wear-resistant,and they are practically non-magnetic 99.98% Much like the name parachrome that the Rolex ones are now made from today.

Fact Rolex watches have been reliable long lasting and accurate for decades.And just by fitting a in-house hairspring I would doubt if they are any better.They are still tested to the same COSC standard as every other watch is tested, whatever they what to call there hairspring with the same pass or fail results.

Patek Philippe call there new developed in-house Hairspring Spiromax but used Nivarox ones before

Ulysse Nardin call there new in-house developed hairspring Silicium before they too used Nivarox ones

The plain fact is these companies like Rolex had to develop there own escapement springs to stop the strangle hold the Swatch group had on the whole Swiss watch industry.
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Old 13 February 2009, 02:10 AM   #8
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If Rolex has achieved its goal to have every part made in-house, then it stands to reason that they can make a Parachrome version hairspring to fit all of their movements. I guess as time goes on we'll know if that's the case. In the meantime we don't know for sure if Akira's full service included a new Parachrome hairspring or if it's a old stock blue hairspring. And as Padi pointed out, blue hairsprings are nothing new, so I don't think it can be assumed that it's a new Parachrome.

Does anyone know if Rolex has ever used a blue colored hairsprings in the past?
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Old 13 February 2009, 09:11 AM   #9
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Thanks guys for your answers, I never made attention to the haisprings' color

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Does anyone know if Rolex has ever used a blue colored hairsprings in the past?
Triplock is right, if someone has seen the blue one, this information will be interesting
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