Watch just stopped

This is about a Tissot, not an Omega. A friend bought a Tissot Powerwind automatic for her grandson. I told her she made a good choice, and that I preferred the automatic Tissot to the quartz. She asked me if she had bought a mechanical, rather than a quartz watch, and if it would be okay if only worn for an hour or two every day. THREE TIMES I told her it would need to be worn almost every day in order for it to run, unless it was to be wound manually, or it would run down. Her actual words were, “please explain rundownness to me.” Where was the sales person when they bought the watch? I am not aware that Tissot watches are sold out of vending machines!

I’ve had the same problem with her and her Pequegnat office wall clock that I rebuilt for her, a number of years ago. The dam thing with sit for years on her office wall, not running. She’ll call me and ask me to come and look at it. TOTALLY run down yet again! Wind it, set it, I can be guaranteed the scenario will recur a year or two,later!

I just checked, and the co-axial movement instructions manual recommends manual winding for a watch that has run down. By the way, while most automatic movements can be manually wound, there are some that cannot, notably including some fine automatic Seiko movements.