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ok guys so i woke up this morning and looked at my SA an noticed that it was about 1 hour behind. at first i thought thtat the watch was dead because the time was incorrect but upon closer inspection i saw the second hand moving. i wound the watch fully a few days ago but did not wear it. i would go into my room ocassionally to move the watch around so it would charge back up.

i guess my question is....is this normal? when the watch is about to die off will the seconds keep moving but the watch will be off in time?

I'm guessing that "on closer inspection" meant moving the watch, which is pretty much guaranteed to start it running again.

It sounds to me that the power reserve ran out, the SA needs 800 rotations per day to maintain reserve so unless your moving it around was that much then it would run down.

Roff i definitely was not giving it 800 rotations a day. but i would shake the watch and listen to the rotor spin (since it is quite loud) anyones guess on how many roations it ran for.

edit - how many rotations does the b4b motors t need to keep reserve? would it be around 800 as well?

If you hear the watch spinning that would be approximately, err, zero

The watch only winds clockwise, so clockwise has more resistance, when you hear it spinning that is going anti-clockwise, which it will always tend to do when shaken, because there is less resistance and anti-clockwise won't wind the watch.

wow i had no idea about that. thanks for letting me know. here i was shaking the watch like an idiot everyday. so i guess im lucky the thing stay wound for as many days as it did.

I used to do that too until I saw an earlier post like this. Live and learn.

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I had no idea either...thanks for the info Roff.

Why don't you just turn the crown it should take about 40 turns and if you do it every day its less than that

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