Help!
This just came today. At first, it wasn’t running. I shook it around quite a bit and even manually wound it. Still nothing. So I shook it for like 2 minutes straight and it starting running. Is this normal? Did the rotor just need “extra” movement? I’ve never had to do that with any of my automatic watches before. I just want to be sure everything is all good or not so I can get it replaced if I need to.
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Brandon
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6.50” / 16.51 cm
if it requires that every time it depletes there must be a problem
I’d call your dealer. That sounds bizarre to me. I’ve never had that happen before. Strange. Hamilton generally uses solid Sellita (no, stupid! ETA. Yeesh!) movements in those watches.
Lovely watch! Best of luck. 🤞
When you say wound it manually are you only doing it once/twice or like 10-15 rotations?
Wind first, Sometimes it takes 10-15 turns to get some watches running. Shaking it around for "quite a bit" might not be the best idea.
Now that it's running give it some time on the wrist and see how it goes. If it seems OK then let it run down and see if it starts up with normal winding.
Like 20 full rotations. I could see the gears rotating as I wound, but it didn’t make the watch run
I’d call your dealer. That sounds bizarre to me. I’ve never had that happen before. Strange. Hamilton generally uses solid Sellita (no, stupid! ETA. Yeesh!) movements in those watches.
Lovely watch! Best of luck. 🤞
Actually Hamilton uses ETA movements or variations thereof. This one is probably the H-10.
Like 20 full rotations. I could see the gears rotating as I wound, but it didn’t make the watch run
Very normal i have watches that runs at the 30 crown rotations
Wind first, Sometimes it takes 10-15 turns to get some watches running. Shaking it around for "quite a bit" might not be the best idea.
Now that it's running give it some time on the wrist and see how it goes. If it seems OK then let it run down and see if it starts up with normal winding.
Why wouldn’t shaking it be a good idea?
Actually Hamilton uses ETA movements or variations thereof. This one is probably the H-10.
Of course! What was I thinking? 😳🫢
Some watches are wound by turning the crown backwards, towards you.
I'm not suggesting it in this case, but just as a heads-up for other newbs like myself to consider in the future. 👍 Took me by surprise the first time I encountered it.
ME: "Why the hell doesn't this thing have any power reserve?"
🤦♂