Fast running new watch!
Hi -a little advice please. I have just received my first AliExpress homage watch - Cronos Sub Diver with a PT5000 movement. Great looking watch and happy with everything EXCEPT it is running about 4 seconds per minute fast. Is there anyway to remedy this without having to send it back (which feels like a ball-ache)? Kind of wishing I hadn’t sunk £200 on this (should have bought another Seiko).
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Alan MacAskill
Buying watches is a disease. I’m infected. Have tastes that far exceed my limited funds or my wife will allow!
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The easiest option is to put it on a timegrapher and check the movement. Then you can regulate it the movement is healthy. Since its a ETA-2824 clone, you can easily get it checked at watch shop.
With AliExpress returns, you have to ship it back at your own costs and its better spent on regulation.
^This. Watches running absurdly fast like that are almost certainly magnetized.
The easiest option is to put it on a timegrapher and check the movement. Then you can regulate it the movement is healthy. Since its a ETA-2824 clone, you can easily get it checked at watch shop.
With AliExpress returns, you have to ship it back at your own costs and its better spent on regulation.
Thank you!
I will do so, thanks!
4 seconds per minute is extreme. 96 minutes per day?
If you don't have a timegrapher but have an Android phone I've found the free Watch Accuracy Meter app useful. A watchmaker or even a reputable jeweler may be able to demagnetise it for you for free.
If it is magnetised it doesn't say great things about the antimagnetic properties or materials of the PT5000.
You can buy a de-magnetizer for less than $10 on amazon, but if you bring it to a watch shop they will probably do it for free.
I’ve just ordered an £11 demagnetiser off Amazon. Should arrive Saturday. Will give it a try. If that doesn’t work will see if a friendly local jeweller will take a look to regulate. Thanks for the advice.
YouTube video caused me to buy a watch. I enjoy the Hydraulics YouTube show when they took a CRONOS down to 3000 meters, it stopped working at 2900 meters. About 1.7 MIles but then when taking it out of the water it started working again. So many people have commented about the submersible imploding at 3,000 meters. This inexpensive watch might still be laying on the debris pile at the bottom of the ocean, amazing, And this new one has a hydrogen relief valve, but a bit heavy.
'new one has a hydrogen relief valve.' I should have said a helium relief valve. Can't read my own wrist.
Sheesh.