Rotor Rage: How noisy is your Automatic Rotor?

It is just a charecteristic of the watch. It would not bother me, but I would not ask for it if it was an option.Knowing it lengthens service intervals helps; however, it sounds like a sale pitch to justify the sound. I am not convinced that it is true.

It is surprising on a $6K watch, for sure.

I don't know if I'm lucky to avoid this or if I just lack the auditory sensitivity.

Several of my Ulysse Nardins, Zeniths, a GP, a JLC make that noise. Never bothered me

I’ve seen it on micro brands for sure

The YEMA2000 movement powering my Superman and Wristmaster is also among the loud and noisy. I'm not really bothered by it but I admit that it's noticeable.

I‘ve only heard complains about and experienced issues with seiko and miyoto movements, but not Omega. That really sucks for such a price.

So far i can‘t hear any noises from my Sinn with a Sellita movement.

I’ve done a bit of googling, and this seems quite specific to the 8806 movement from Onega (with its aforementioned ceramic bearings). Something to consider in doing research prior to plunking down luxury watch money $$$

Wearing an old Seiko 5 right now with a 7S26 whose rotor makes a Miyota 8215 sound as quiet as a Rolex 3135. Not an issue though, since you can't hear it over the bracelet jangle.

That said, it's an eminently lovable little watch. Rotor noise doesn't bother me in the least.

JLC has this issue too with ceramic bearings in the movement. I wonder if its just a problem with the technology. I suppose they're more durable and require less service but might not be the full experience you want.

Generally movement noise doesn't bug me much, unless we're talking Miyota 8 series movements. That ticks over my threshold.

I hear people bitching about the rotor noise and wobble on the Valjoux 7750, but I have a watch with that in it, and I can only think of 1 time that I actually noticed anything. I was brushing my teeth, and switched hands. When I put my left hand on the counter, I could just barely feel the watch moving as the rotor spun. Besides that, total non-issue. And never heard or felt any of my other autos either.

My JLC ultra thin moonphase does that. Drove me up the way when I got it but wore me down. Now if I don’t hear it, I’d think there is something wrong with the watch 🤷🏻‍♂️

Miyota rotors effectively hit Mach 2.0, you can hear the wearing approach before they appear on the horizon.

Everyone knows that Miyota 8000 series movements are noisy, but I find that even the new 9000 series movements can be noisy. Granted, they are in maybe $600 watches, not $6000 watches, but it is still just ever so slightly annoying.

No watch except Seiko kinetic movement and "famous" 7750 have I heared so far while wearing. The Seiko kinetic was especially loud and felt the rotation during wearing. It is a kinetic to be fair but still

Cartier: rather noisy, whether they are old or new (for example new Santos). Breitling: medium noisy

Rolex (1990s): not much to hear

I don't like rotor noise but it doesn't bother me too much. I enjoy the ETA 2892 even though those tend to be really loud...

I guess I find more annoying the single sided rotors that turn my watch into an wrist helicopter under the right circumstances 🤣

Here is the rear photo of Bulova Automatic, it’s very silent and no noise;)

My Timex Navy XL has the loudest rotor ever and it doesn't bother me

Diddums … first world problems…. You know you’ve got a lovely watch thats what my brain would be thinking:)

My Aragon DiveMaster 4 EVO NH35 is practically silent on wrist. $165 USD😁

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Not an issue. My hearing isn’t good enough to notice rotor noise. So I got that going for me 😐

I find that only with the 8000

Generally, sometimes a movement can just about be heard swinging its metal, but in my experience that has to be some pretty vigorous shaking about going on and listening for it. Except for one miyota movement (not in one of mine admittedly) which is easily heard because it spins so freely. Again though, it needs to be really moving. Then it sounds like a borrowers washing machine on a spin cycle.

It’s easy to feel a rotor going — say if you are running downstairs — because at the end of the day if it’s going enough it acts like a small gyroscope.

Overall though, I do wonder how vigorously people are chopping their veg in a silent room, for it to be a problem.

Even as someone who likes ticking, I think things like the 5.1 Dolby surround THX tock of things like a Timex weekender is probably more irritatingly noticeable.

The problem is, when we moved to electric, they should have added recordings of the engine noise…

I like to hear the rotor noise, It gives me a fuzzy feeling of mechanical gears and steam trains.

Anything with mechanical movement tends to have some sort of noises, Car Engine and Watch Rotor are common examples. I don’t mind the noise made by the turbo engines in my cars nor by my watches.

If you like a completely silent watch, a $10 quartz watch will outperform all mechanical watches

My no time to die seamaster has the 8806 and geez it’s loud. I don’t mind it but it takes getting used to