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poor power reserve, rotor unwinding

Bart Bever

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8/2/13
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Hi guys,
I had my movement serviced on holiday since the movement stopped working after a few hours of wearing.
A local watchsmith said he could fix it and charged me 40 euro's for it.
The watch came back repaired but at home I noticed that it still has only 5-6 hours power reserve.
I opened it up and found that when manually winding the crown, the rotor unwinds 2 or 3 turns when I stop winding.
So I guess thats why the power reserve is not build up.

Any advice please,
something I can do myself or do I need to find a local watchsmith?

Greetz!,
Bart
 

ugalord

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Could be a dry or faulty automatic. Is it an eta clone movement?
Where are you from mate?
E: Oh im dumb. Belgium xD
 

ugalord

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Oh. But rotor spinning usually has something to do with the automatic. Maybe a wheel is damaged. Does your watchmaker has spares for that movement? Else you could just buy a new movement.