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The VSF Submariners Thread
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DzR-ALF
Active Member
Please tell me one more moment. How long does it take to actively wear a vs3235 movement watch to get a 72-hour power reserve?) For the sake of curiosity, I tried 2 options:
1) I put my watch on my hand at 8 am and actively walked around the city all day, took off my watch at 8 pm. The clock stopped exactly 48 hours later.
2) Wound up the crown at ~ 20 revolutions and put the watch on the table. The clock stopped also ~48 hours later.
How should they be worn to see these 72 hours of power reserve?))
1) I put my watch on my hand at 8 am and actively walked around the city all day, took off my watch at 8 pm. The clock stopped exactly 48 hours later.
2) Wound up the crown at ~ 20 revolutions and put the watch on the table. The clock stopped also ~48 hours later.
How should they be worn to see these 72 hours of power reserve?))
DzR-ALF
Active Member
No, I got that) With ~25 revolutions, I have a power reserve of about 48 hours. What option is there to test them to get the claimed 72 hours? And how many of them do need to wear on your arm to get 72 hours of power reserve? Or will it depend only on the intensity of movement of this hand? I'm sorry, the first mechanical watch)
Stop. You need to understand that this is a replica. It’s a toy. It’s not manufactured to Rolex standards. And realistically does it matter that you get 48 hours rather than 72? Please get some perspective!
DzR-ALF
Active Member
Why is it customary to answer the usual questions here always "this is rep"? I asked a question of interest to me, is it difficult to give a direct answer to it in the style: for a power reserve of 72 hours, you need to * wind up the watch manually so many times* or * that's how many hours you need to actively walk with a watch on your hand*
This is curiosity and nothing more) It is written that the power reserve is 72 hours and I'm just wondering under what conditions this can be achieved.
The guy is just asking a question, no need to get so worked up bud.
Soooo.......just how many rapid repetitions of the hand on the ol skin flute will it take to get to the 72 hr reserve? LOL!
This is the dial dimple guy, hes already stretched peoples patienceThe guy is just asking a question, no need to get so worked up bud.
muiramas
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Wind it about 60-70 turns - or until the winding feel changes. You can’t overwind the watch and the feeling of winding it will become different / feel wrong as the crown disengages the mainspring. The watch is now fully wound.
Then leave it still until it stops - that is the only way to check a movement PR.
It is unlikely that a watch is fully wound just by wearing it while going for a walk.
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muiramas
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Because its a rep.
Your watch probably cost well under $200 to make and was assembled by children chained to radiators. It is unreasonable, naive and unrealistic to expect that it should perform like the original which was made by highly trained, and and highly skilled watch makers in Switzerland.
You bought it to make other people think that you have a £10k watch - do not confuse this with making yourself think that you have got a £10k watch. Factories claim their watches are 1:1 - they are not. Ever. Most of us are able to make the differentiation on false claims - made just because it's normalised for an industry / country to make false claims - and reality.
The purpose of your rep is to look, and to a lesser degree, feel like the real thing - to you and to others, and tell the time with accuracy and reliability. That's all you can reasonably expect.
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DzR-ALF
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Thanks for the reply. Last night, without waiting for an answer, I did exactly that) See what power reserve they will show. That's all I was interested in)
P.S. This is a very strange forum) Only a couple of people here can give some answers to the essence, all other people answer any questions with "it's a rep", instead of just giving a detailed answer to a beginner))
P.S.S. Thanks to those who normally answer and help to understand, thanks to you I'm trying to understand and learn something.
Thanks for the answer, that's what I wanted to know)
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I tested a vs3235 and got 65 hours of power reserve, but don’t assume they all will do that. As stated, these movements are far from Swiss standards and quality of assembly, cleanliness, and lubrication is all over the place, so you can expect variations in performance of these movements.
DonkeyHoTay
Cockwomble Misfire Specialist
It's amazing to me that anyone would buy a rep and expect standards like power reserve to be anywhere close to a swiss made product built in a controlled environment where there is legitimate quality control and no risk of raids. It's a fucking toy watch built by people making $0.03 an hour and no bathroom breaks! I'm willing to pay up to get VSF for the *attempt* at a better movement and more faithful reproduction, but not so I can treat it like a gen watch and take the thing scuba diving! WTF!
On a note more closely related to the purpose of this thread, I received and am happily wearing my VSF 126613LB:
This is the watch I am on the fence about buying in gen. But the way this VSF looks on the wrist.... WTF am I thinking trying to waste money on the gen.