I purchased a 2500 movement PO brand new from an AD on January 30th. I have had the watch a total of 24 days. I work jobs over the weekend that I don’t want to subject the watch too, so I typically don’t wear it, causing me to have to have to manually wind it to set the date/time. I have done this a total of 3 times. Yesterday I went to reset it for the third time and I could not screw the crown down. Any suggestions on if I may have damaged the threads? This is my first nice watch; however I can’t imagine that I torqued it too hard. Is resetting the watch every weekend “bad” for the parts? I am going to call the AD tomorrow. Do you think I will have a hard time using warranty if they claim this is operator error? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Other than this issue, everything is working fine. I love my new watch and it hurts me to have something fail so quickly, especially on a watch that is this expensive, at least to me.
It should not be be a problem. I am sure I have set mine scores of times or more and never had an issue. Push in and turn. You might try pushing in and turning very slowly to catch the open thread. I suppose it is possible though that something damage the thread end so that it by passes instead of catching. If that were so it should be easy to fix. A real watchmaker could fix it in ten minutes (not a jeweler).
Try pushing it in and twisting it backwards a quarter or half turn first. Don't release the pressure, and immediately reverse direction to screw it in. Bet it catches.
This was the solution I was looking for; however it is still strange that I was able to set the crown before using this method. Oh well no complaints. In hindsight I should have done a proper search rather than make a new topic! Lesson learned. Thanks for all the swift replies.
Did you manage to screw it down ? I always start to turn the crown first, then softly add pressure, keep turning. Hope all is well. and yes lets see some pics of your new watch !.
Yes I was able to get it. Here are some pictures, sorry not the best of quality. My cell phone does not do this watch any justice! By the way, this is a 42mm. I am plagued by small wrists.