bombaywalla
·Hello Omega experts,
I tried to find this topic in the archives but I must be very bad at using the search engine (it took me a while to figure it out on Watchuseek) but I'm quite sure that I'm not the first to have done this.........
........I was winding my 3570.50 this morning -- I've had this watch for 1.5 yrs now. I was wearing it yesterday so it was wound yesterday. this morning i went to wind it & had gotten about 30 winds in when I heard a click & then the crown had almost zero resistance to it. And, I noticed the seconds had just stopped dead it its tracks. I wound it a few more times not recognizing what just happened -- i could hear the ratcheting sound as i did the winding motion. Not sure what i was happening (probably nothing) & the seconds hand did not move at.
I changed the time -- the seconds hand moved for a few seconds & then stopped. I could do this a couple times. The third time I did it, no effect on the seconds hand/did not move.
looks like i broke the watch while winding. I'm quite sure that i did not put too much pressure when winding (as I've done this many, many times before). So, I cannot figure out what was different this morning compared to others -- why the watch broke?
from the above symptoms, can anyone tell me what might be broken? Is it fatigue on the parts from repeated winding for 1.5 yrs? It's supposed to be a manual wind watch so it's supposed to be hardy in this department -- crown, crown stem, attachment of crown stem to winding mechanism, etc.
Looks like I need to send it to a repair shop.... 🙁
thanks for the help.
I tried to find this topic in the archives but I must be very bad at using the search engine (it took me a while to figure it out on Watchuseek) but I'm quite sure that I'm not the first to have done this.........
........I was winding my 3570.50 this morning -- I've had this watch for 1.5 yrs now. I was wearing it yesterday so it was wound yesterday. this morning i went to wind it & had gotten about 30 winds in when I heard a click & then the crown had almost zero resistance to it. And, I noticed the seconds had just stopped dead it its tracks. I wound it a few more times not recognizing what just happened -- i could hear the ratcheting sound as i did the winding motion. Not sure what i was happening (probably nothing) & the seconds hand did not move at.
I changed the time -- the seconds hand moved for a few seconds & then stopped. I could do this a couple times. The third time I did it, no effect on the seconds hand/did not move.
looks like i broke the watch while winding. I'm quite sure that i did not put too much pressure when winding (as I've done this many, many times before). So, I cannot figure out what was different this morning compared to others -- why the watch broke?
from the above symptoms, can anyone tell me what might be broken? Is it fatigue on the parts from repeated winding for 1.5 yrs? It's supposed to be a manual wind watch so it's supposed to be hardy in this department -- crown, crown stem, attachment of crown stem to winding mechanism, etc.
Looks like I need to send it to a repair shop.... 🙁
thanks for the help.