Rotary automatic ,slightly fast.

yoshytoshy

Hi ,I've a realitively new watch and it seems to be slightly fast.
I wreckon it's about 20 seconds/day.

After looking through google ,I found a site that recommends shaking the watch 3 times per second for 5 seconds and also leaving the watch on it's side with the crown facing upwards.

Do these type of things usually rememdy ?

Thanks.

yoshytoshy

bedlam wrote: »

How new is the watch? You do hear talk of watches bedding in after a bit of wear although I've never experienced this, so not sure how accurate it is. If you are worried about the accuracy (and it falls out side of the expected range) bring it back to where you purchased it and get it regulated.

Thanks for the reply and link.

Bit of a story about the watch since I started the thread here:(

After checking and double checking ,the watch is just less than 30 seconds fast/day. So it wasn't a guarantee issue.

I bought the watch on amazon.co.uk ,sent them an message last week about it and straight away they were sending me a brand new watch. They wanted me to send the old one back when I recieved the new one.

In the meantime ,rotary also got back to me and told me about the +30 seconds. So I decided to cancel the new shipment from amazon ,mostly because I was happy with their approach to sorting things out.

It's not the perfect watch ,but it's thought me about the mechanics of watches. I've read through various sites since and appreciate the work that goes into them more ,so it's not all bad:)

Looking forward to going through the link you posted.

Cheers.

Nolimits

Leaving the watch in different positions will have an effect as in face up, face down, on the side crown up or on the side crown down, you could try experimenting with that and see how it goes +30 seconds is alot though it probably does need to be regulated. H Samuel are official distributors of Rotary if you bring it into one of their shops they may be able to help.

yoshytoshy

Nolimits wrote: »

Leaving the watch in different positions will have an effect as in face up, face down, on the side crown up or on the side crown down, you could try experimenting with that and see how it goes +30 seconds is alot though it probably does need to be regulated. H Samuel are official distributors of Rotary if you bring it into one of their shops they may be able to help.

Cheers ,I'm thinking of just leaving it on as much as possible for a month or so and seeing how it goes. Hopefully it might wear in a bit better ,I've read somewhere that a watch can run fast ,if a certain part moves too slowly. So I'm hoping the watch might improve if it loosens up a bit ,fingers crossed.

Thanks for letting me know about H samuels ,thought I'd have to send it over to rotary.

yoshytoshy

Heres the mail I got ,

If you would care to return the timepiece to our service centre, address below, it will be inspected and you will be notified of our findings. I would advise that the expected tolerance of an automatic timepiece is +/- 20/30 seconds a day.

hi5

If its consistantly gaining the same amount then it can be regulated back to consistantly gain maybe 10/15 sec/day or even better.
Its when its being eratic then you have problems:).