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CK859 winding help please

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First, congrats on getting one! Did you end up going the boutique route or did you find an AD?

As others have said, it takes many winds to fully wind the watch. The 8926 is double barreled meaning it has two mainsprings to assist with the power reserve. I believe this is why it takes so many revolutions to wind it. I’m not a watchmaker, but that’s how I understand it.

Double barreled movements also help with accuracy and of course power reserve. That’s why I’m fairly certain most, if not all, of Omega’s master chronometers are double barreled calibres.

The CK859 is definitely my favorite release of the year. It is such a strap monster and goes anywhere. The jumping hour complication is a massive benefit for traveling. Mine is running +1spd and I’ve had no trouble getting the advertised power reserve.

Hi! Thanks! I got it from a boutique. I was told ADs didn't have them? Thanks for all that info! Always nice to learn some stuff about the timepiece on my wrist. I appreciate it!
 
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I bought mine in an AD in Curitiba, Brazil, a couple of months ago, and now they have just received another one, it's in the showcase and anyone can enter the shop and buy it.
 
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I bought mine in an AD in Curitiba, Brazil, a couple of months ago, and now they have just received another one, it's in the showcase and anyone can enter the shop and buy it.

The home of Wanderlei Silva! And yes, I hear it isn't discontinued after all. Just a bunch of youtube people making false claims and piggybacking off each other.
 
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The home of Wanderlei Silva! And yes, I hear it isn't discontinued after all. Just a bunch of youtube people making false claims and piggybacking off each other.

Yea, I bump into Wanderlei every now and again, he lives in my neighborhood. We're fans of the same football team Coritiba F. C. so sometimes I see him at the stadium too. A nice guy, always very kind to everyone.
 
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Don't flame me too hard but can someone give me some tips here. I just got it and love it but the winding doesn't feel like what I expected. The crown is at its original position (closed?) where it sits tight to the watch body. I just turn it clockwise but it doesn't have any real feel. Its not like a Speedy. It just turns and even with my ear to it I am not hearing much of that click click click. I turned it a good 30-40 revolutions and never felt it tighten at all but didn't want to push my luck. Am I doing this right? Anything I should be looking out for? I am really hoping I didn't overwind this guy. (I really didn't feel a noticeable resistance). Thanks for any help.

I really struggled with this. I ended up following someone's advice on thread and just kept going (over 100 turns) until it had so much resistance I could barely turn it anymore.
 
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I realized this is an old post, but just to confirm, can owners of the CK859 confirm that there is indeed a stopping point when this watch is fully wound?
 
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I realized this is an old post, but just to confirm, can owners of the CK859 confirm that there is indeed a stopping point when this watch is fully wound?
Yes, there is.
 
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I realized this is an old post, but just to confirm, can owners of the CK859 confirm that there is indeed a stopping point when this watch is fully wound?

Welcome to the forum, cap'n.
 
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I bought mine new in 2022. The watch must have had an issue from the beginning. When I bought the watch and asked if there was a stopping point they were evasive. "Just stop when you feel it start to tighten." "Ok, but if you keep winding it, it will stop at some point right? Like with other manual wind watches?" "It's best to just stop when it feels tight." This went back and forth a few times like a broken record. They also couldn't tell me how many turns the watch should be turned. "Just until it's tight," they kept saying. Then they'd wind it and say "See? I've wound it until it was tight. Here, give it one more turn or two and notice how it's tighter now." A year or two later I took it to another boutique to ask them the same question and it very much felt like the same kind of evasiveness. Long story short, the watch broke recently. I've owned and loved the watch for 4 years and I never felt a stopping point while winding it. The tightening feeling was so weak, I'm not entirely sure it was ever really there. And when it broke, there was no feeling of tightening, stopping, or even the feeling of something breaking. It simply just stopped while I wound it. I don't know if it was overwound by someone at the store before I bought it or if it was defective from the factory in some other way. Now I have to take it in for warranty and I'm worried that the watchmaker who diagnoses it might say I wound it past the stopping point. But as long as I owned this watch I never felt a stopping point when I wound it. I don't know how to prove otherwise. Sad because I really love this watch.
 
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