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Reliability story
Dear All - I have a question about movement and reliability of my Patek Aquanaut: As a regular reader/contributor, it can hardly escape our attention that there have been some issues with this aspect of our favourite watches.
But my story is odd, and has never happened with any other watch I have owned (Rolex, Omega etc). My 5167 is relatively new, purchased this year. For the first few months with normal wear, without any intervention, it lost approx 1.5 seconds per day. Then after approx 2 months, it suddenly lost 5-10 minutes a day. I reset the time, in order to get a more precise idea of the problem, and the issue immediately went away (it now seems to lose about 1 second per day).
This is an automatic watch and there is presumably a fault of some kind, but I noticed that when screwing in the crown following re-setting the time that there is an automatic winding process (have others noticed this?). Could it be that the watch needs re-winding occasionally?
Any comments on this would be most helpful - thanks!
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Dear All - I have a question about movement and reliability of my Patek Aquanaut: As a regular reader/contributor, it can hardly escape our attention that there have been some issues with this aspect of our favourite watches. But my story is odd, and has ...
Strange
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Magnetized?
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What is the best way to demagnetize a watch?
Inspector Clouseau, no doubt you have examined this topic. Please, enchant me with your wisdow
As you very well know.....
Inspector Clouseau is not the most intelligent person in the world... So I doubt it that he would have found a solution ( so I could steal it... lol) I think that the JLC boutique in Paris has a mashine that can demagnetize a watch.... I will try to find ...
The honoured Inspector compensates his lack ...
... of intelligence by having a great instinct and lots of luck. He always stumbles by accident on the right solution. And because I was so impressed by your detective work in the case of BH90210, the impolite fraudster with the double personality, I knew...
Lol....
Very true..... Thank for the compliment... And to think that the fraudster uses the second id as a rereference so he can sell his watches here... Sad.... I will try to find out about how to demagnetize.... HAGWE Cheers
Sad indeed. One should think that the management ...
... of this great site would take the right actions to ban fraudsters. It it just like real life. Only the dumb low lifes go to jail I understand you live in Paris? I hope for you it is Paris, France and not Paris, Texas If so, you should not have any pro...
Ach so. Glücklicherweise kan man in ....
.... Deutschland auch ein tolles Wochenende haben, doch? Ganze Spaß in Paris ist schließlich langweilig, nicht? Oder? Ich wünsche Ihnen ein schönes Wochenende.
I don't think so
Hi, A magnetize watch does not de-magnetize itself AFAIK! And the watch is now apparently working normally. Cheers Dje
Depending on your lifestyle, you may need to manually wind it.
If you have sedentary lifestyle and/or in fornt of a computer and TV most of the time, the watch may not move enough to rewind itself. This is true for all automatic watches. Pateks with 240 (mini-rotors) may be more prone to this issue, not as much with ...
Strange I think not...
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So, what goes on at Patek?
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I think you are right..
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The higher production numbers...
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it seems to be the people who wear...
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