Movement wind not enough to power watch?

[georgemcfly]

I bought a CrPO from Ryan, great experience from start to finish and the watch is great. However, am having some issues with the movement.

Winding it manually it's fine. Now I know I don't wear my watch enough, and every other day or so it has stopped - combination of taking it off plus sedentary job - so am having to wind it every couple of days. Now I'd rather not do that so am looking at buying a watch winding machine.

Now my issue is, I can't get the watch to start from being stopped using only my movement as main form of winding it. I have to manually wind it to get it going. I have a Seiko, and an Aqua Terra with a Miyota 8215 in, and these both are able to to be wound solely from my movement.

Is there an issue with my A2836, or is this normal?

Thanks

 

[johnabuchanan]

Not sure if this is going to be helpful but I started a similar thread in the main forum a few weeks ago.

My problem was not so much starting by shaking as being unable to keep it running whilst wearing it 14 hours per day (like you a fairly sedentary lifestyle) and after some suggestions I set about experimenting with different kinds of movement.
For example I found that I could probably do a marching movement for 8 hours per day and it would still exhaust the reserve overnight.
My conclusion was to rotate the watch back and forth horizontally in my hand for a minute every morning and evening as the best method of keeping it going for more than 3 or 4 days at a time.

My watch is a Rolex DaydateII which I got in a M2M deal here so I don't know which movement it contains, but since this is the only one of my auto reps which which runs down whilst wearing it, I would be prepared to bet that the problem is with your watch movement rather than your wrist movement.
I am very much a newbie at this game but I would think that there is an optimal way to get the rotor charging the spring.

Incidentally I recently got a CrPO from Ryan from his promotion page. It has the Miyota 8215 movement and never needs winding when worn as a daily beater.

Hope this helps.

John

 

[M.lawerence]

What I do know is a fully wound 2824/2836 should have a power reserve of up to 40 hrs. Winding it is necessary, (don't take my word on that though, I've only read about it). I've also read that if you just wear an automatic watch for about 8-10 hours with no winding, the average mainspring will only be wound to around 50%. Wind your watch around 20-30x before you set the time, and you're good to go!

 

[M.lawerence]

And don't worry about breaking anything, 2836's have a slip mechanism which won't alow you to overwind the movement. Just turn the crown smoothly