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Lucky me, had a new Seiko 5 Sports automatic watch for christmas! Thing is, although I wear it every day, I take it off at night and on a couple of occasions I noticed that on putting it back on in the morning, it has stopped. I know you have to joggle your wrist to wind it up, but I would have thought that being worn during the day would have been sufficient to keep it going on its own through the night. Anyone have any similar experience or consider the watch to be faulty?
just keep it on for the nightly barclays
Money's on the edge (the watch) for day wearing. It can just about get through most days but not always. I presctibe lots of energetic shaking.
Even though you wear it during the day, it is still recommended that you manually wind it up once a week. I have a seiko that has a power reserve of around 40 hours. Yours should be the same I would keep a close eye on it before the warranty runs out
Wear it on your right wrist
I too had exactly the same with two seiko 5's and bad time keeping even when on the wrist. I was bitterly disappointed by the experience of them that I just have Casio g shocks now!
Ok, apart from the obvious innuendos (!) , I suppose if you have a fairly sedentary day, then the watch could potentially not be wound up sufficiently. Just seems a bit odd that most days it's ok, but had a couple of mornings when it's stopped.
My new Seiko 5 gains about 7s per day, which I can live with. On days when I run home from work or run at lunch I wear my Forerunner (7am to 6pm ish), so probably similar to not wearing overnight and mine hasn't stopped or slowed down. You could always buy a watch winder, but it'd probably cost more than the watch!
Buy an omega?
Should have a 30-40 hour reserve from full wind. Stopping overnight from a days wear means it is either not winding properly or not holding a proper charge.
Wind it fully (not sure if you can manually wind that movement) and see how long it takes to die. If it's well short of the 30-40 hours send it back.
Regarding the loosing or gaining time it's a cheapish auto it's to be expected. You can try averaging It out by the position you leave it overnight. I.e. Try leaving it face down then face up then crown down then crown up one position will help
Seven seconds a day isn't too bad, but can be improved, but it takes patience. My SPORK was losing about a minute a week when I got it, so I gave it to a mate who's a goldsmith, and often has to tweak watches. He got it to gain a minute a week, then the next time it was nearer two! He told me to get a case-opening tool from Maplins, and do it myself! So after several attempts I got it to about five-ten seconds a month. My hand-wound Yema gains about a minute per month, and that will only run about 24 hours on a full wind, it has no power reserve. It is forty-four years old, mind.
My Seiko 5 from Yobokies does a day and a half not worn no problem at all. No idea why yours does not.
Thanks for all the advice; I'll keep an eye on it. Not sure how many shakes constitutes a full wind, currently can't find the instruction book, but I'm sure there should be something on the Seiko website.
When it stops do you me manually wind it or just put it on your wrist? I know with ETA movements that they should be fully wound me manually to start them, the auto winding after that will keep it topped up. Without doing this they sometimes stop.
Sounds a bit daft, but I didn't realise you could manually wind up the watch! All I've done is to swish it around so that the counterweight moves around - looking on the web I don't think the Seiko 5 can be manally wound by any other method.
OT but I found my Seiko 5 is more water resistant than expected after it survived an accidental quick wash at 30 degrees today 😳
Now I know why you call yourself unfitgeezer!! Seems to be working fine ATM with the occasional swish...