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A community member
May 29, 2018
Well had mine for 5 days, date function was hard to find on the crown, kept clicking out of sync.. now tried manual winding as I do daily and the wind function is no longer working. Just spins in axis. Where do I stand on the warranty? I am in the UK so not happy if I need to send this watch anywhere..will be time consuming and expensive..
meh0wski
1
May 29, 2018
Why do you winding manually automatic watch every day?
A community member
May 29, 2018
meh0wskito top up the power reserve
meh0wski
1
May 30, 2018
This is what the rotor is for. You shouldn't wind it manually by turning the crown, it can cause problems.
A community member
May 30, 2018
meh0wskiThe watch is kinetic and hand wind.. to say you can't wind a hand windable watch as it may cause a problem is odd.. I hand wind all my other hackable,winding kinetic watches with zero issues.. this watch should be exactly the same. It is a production failure if it does not function correctly.
Aliasfox
96
Aug 4, 2018
The ETA 2824 is known to have a weak winding stem. If you constantly wind a watch with that movement, you're likely to eventually run into problems. It just happened to catch up with you on this watch. Just let the watch wind down, and next time you wear it, gently wind it a few turns just to get it going, then adjust the time and put it on your wrist. Definitely. It designed to be fully wound up by hand every day.
Also, this watch is an "automatic," a kinetic watch is a brand name of movement used by Seiko Kinetic watches. Very different beasts.
A community member
Aug 5, 2018
AliasfoxShaking a watch to move the charging rotor or kinetically moving it is another way to describe it. I am sorry if you confused it with Seiko's kinetic line of watches. I am well aware of what a Seiko kinetic watch is and how shaking a watch kinetically to charge a battery or shaking an automatic kinetically to charge the mainspring differ.
Massdrop replaced the original watch and fixed the problem of the broken crown winding mechanism. As for overwinding the watch, I had owned it for a few days and had just been topping up the power reserve by winding it. I would of expected the watch to handle this, It is not like I wound the watch to its limits every morning and before I went to sleep..
Aliasfox
96
Aug 5, 2018
Good that Massdrop replaced it, but the point is still the same - the 2824 has a weak winding stem, something that I haven't heard about with other movements (Seiko 6R15, ETA 2892, Miyota 9015).