Has Sellita Improved Winding Gear to a Harder Aloy?

I haven’t been able to find if Sellita has improved the SW200 winding gear? The issue is the alloy on the gear isn’t hard enough, the teeth on this soft alloy breaks, disabling the winding function. A Youtuber> “Grimwood watch modding” has a great video that talks about this issue. I thought this would be a great question that would serve our community well here at Watchcrunch.

https://youtu.be/OakfEpAAmY8

thank you everyone!

Bridger

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Exactly! The only thing that’s been said is, “try not to wind it….as much”.

Why in the first place would they use a substandard alow or metal for a winding gear?🙄

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Bridger

Exactly! The only thing that’s been said is, “try not to wind it….as much”.

Why in the first place would they use a substandard alow or metal for a winding gear?🙄

Maybe for reasons of anti-shock???

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I'm not sure about the credibility of this guy. In over 5 yrs of collecting, this is the first I've heard of this issue. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, only that maybe it's a bit exaggerated here? I've owned watches with both the ETA 2824 (Squale 1521) and the SW-200 (CW C60 and Oris BCPD) and never had a problem with any of them. He mentions winding "a bit agressively or overwinding" which sounds like abuse to me. I suggest not abusing your watch and you won't ever see this problem. I can't believe that if this problem was that common that ETA would have fixed it long ago and Sellita wouldn't have copied it.