Quick !! Get me an old priest and a new one !
I got a little dust under the lens of my sub (my first and most loved rep)
also wanted to quiet the rotor a little as well. The movement has been working great, but slightly loud. (as a lot of a21j's are)
anyways.. I opened it up and while handling the movement I accidentally dropped it !
ok.. no big deal (At least thats what I told myself as my heat beat quickly)
When I picked it up I noticed it looked a little different, but couldn't put my finger on it.
Anyways being the curious engineer I am.. I did what all engineers do when trying to fix something they know little about..
I poked the movement in different places w/ my small screw driver watching how everything worked..
everything seemed to be fine .. so I put the case back on the watch and laid it on top my bureau.
3 days later I noticed... the second hand was still ticking..
now.. this is a watch I had let sit for maybe 4 days prior to picking it up to work on, then setting it back down.
All of which took maybe an hour.. and in that time the movement must have only moved for about 10-15 min total.
(I wore it today so I couldn't tell you if it was going to die on day 4 or not.. next time I'll have to just leave it.. but that will take alot of self control as I enjoy wearing it so much)
Do your watches commonly stay ticking for 3-4 days w/ out use? ..
It never used to stay going for that long prior to my poking around..
musta hit something good in there while poking around!
.. er... I mean.. after my calculated approximations of strategical insertion points, the movement was probed by the 2mm screwdriver. There is empirical evidence to suggest the a21j movement has undergone a beneficial change to the power reserve which now lasts 3-4 days, given error approximation.. cough.. something like that ...
My engineering teachers would be proud of those run on sentences that lacking all known grammatical laws, my English teachers would shed tears!
But seriously..
how long do your watches stay ticking when not in use?
Most of mine last a 1 1/2 days.. 2 1/2 maybe..
but 3-4 none of my others do that..
- Ex
I got a little dust under the lens of my sub (my first and most loved rep)
also wanted to quiet the rotor a little as well. The movement has been working great, but slightly loud. (as a lot of a21j's are)
anyways.. I opened it up and while handling the movement I accidentally dropped it !
ok.. no big deal (At least thats what I told myself as my heat beat quickly)
When I picked it up I noticed it looked a little different, but couldn't put my finger on it.
Anyways being the curious engineer I am.. I did what all engineers do when trying to fix something they know little about..
I poked the movement in different places w/ my small screw driver watching how everything worked..
everything seemed to be fine .. so I put the case back on the watch and laid it on top my bureau.
3 days later I noticed... the second hand was still ticking..
now.. this is a watch I had let sit for maybe 4 days prior to picking it up to work on, then setting it back down.
All of which took maybe an hour.. and in that time the movement must have only moved for about 10-15 min total.
(I wore it today so I couldn't tell you if it was going to die on day 4 or not.. next time I'll have to just leave it.. but that will take alot of self control as I enjoy wearing it so much)
Do your watches commonly stay ticking for 3-4 days w/ out use? ..
It never used to stay going for that long prior to my poking around..
musta hit something good in there while poking around!
.. er... I mean.. after my calculated approximations of strategical insertion points, the movement was probed by the 2mm screwdriver. There is empirical evidence to suggest the a21j movement has undergone a beneficial change to the power reserve which now lasts 3-4 days, given error approximation.. cough.. something like that ...
My engineering teachers would be proud of those run on sentences that lacking all known grammatical laws, my English teachers would shed tears!
But seriously..
how long do your watches stay ticking when not in use?
Most of mine last a 1 1/2 days.. 2 1/2 maybe..
but 3-4 none of my others do that..
- Ex
