User_Name: Slothful_Dude
Question: My new Automatic Watch never seems to stay wound. It is always slow or totally stopped. I have taken to winding it with the stem by hand. Is this normal? Seems
these watches are not self winding after all. Is my watch defective. I wear it daily,
I could understand if I left it on my nightstand, but I don't even take it off to sleep, just to shower and swim.
Answer:There are 2 distinct possibilities.
1. It is a defective watch. This is possible, though I doubt it is the case, so bear with us and experiment.
More than likely your simply have a desk job!
2. Your not moving enough, one way to resolve this is to get into habit of flicking your wrist side to side every hour or so about 10 times..........
Hint:
Sometimes people have metal bracelets that are too loose, if it is too loose the energy of the wrist movement is not transferred to the watch as efficiently, so remove some links so the watch fits snug but not tight. I discovered this myself quite by accident, once I removed the proper number of links the watch wound fine.
Factoid:
Automatic Watches are not very accurate. Some non Chronometer automatics can be very inaccurate, and if the watch is a fake. Well, it might be downright awful, 10 minutes or more in a week is not uncommon. But it still is fun, and amazing that a small spring keeps time so well, never a battery issue. Just a little work adjusting the time a tad bit now and again. I love even my inaccurate automatics!
You can always simply
wind it up and put it on a nice watchwinder from watchcases.com and watch it.....oh, just kidding, flick your wrist more and it will be fine!
Donald Geib
President
www.watchcases.com LLC.
The Finest Store for Watch Winders and CasesLabels: Automatic Watches, Donald, Recommendation, Watch Factoid
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