Is Your Quartz Watch Losing Time / Malfunctioning Only When You Wear It?
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2019
- A quick diagnostic video for a quartz watch, my Victorinox Chrono Classic, which has recently developed a tendency to lose sizable chunks of time on the wrist.
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Good information to keep in mind with a balky quartz watch. Thank you!
Interesting video. Glad you were able to fix the problem. I have a 3 month old Casio Duro Marlin that's losing big chunks of time.
I haven't dropped it, so I'm curious to find the problem. The watch was only $50, but I do really like it. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching. The Duro Marlin is an awesome watch. Hope you get it figured out!
Thank You so much for this video. I was considering replacing the movement, but after watching your video, it turned out that the battery wasn’t in place all the way. That’s due to the nature of my job, with multiple heavy impacts on my hands (watch) awesome content! Keep up the good work!
Keep the tough plastic that new watches have around the braclet. Put that on the caseback and push the jaxa wrench through the plastic. If it slips you won't scratch the caseback.
Thank you!! solved my problem in a Bulova (ana-digi Miyota T241)the battery it was tilted because its retainer it was a little bit lose. Cheers from Mexico!
Glad to hear it!
Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for the video! I bought a victorinox inox and it was losing time on wrist. Just checked the battery and seemed to be out of place, so preseed on it and left a little piece of paper between the plastic holder and battery to keep pressure. Hope it has been fixed!
Cell phone guys years ago fixed a cell phone battery issue that way. Shims!
Very interesting man, thank tou
Many thanks! I had the same issue. I just opened my watch and the battery was not properly in place.
Thank you
thank you!
Thank you god! As a fellow Victorinox owner myself, I got scared. Mine's pretty sentimental - it was a gift from my uncle's collection, and I've met some crazy people in the watch world like Ed Meylan and Max Busser wearing it. That, and it's the only watch I own at the moment.
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Hope this was helpful.
@@SuburbanPathfinder It was. That said, this was a safe queen before my uncle gave it to me - so the fact that it's starting to get worn a lot, and it was not serviced apart from a battery change may be a problem too.
These quartz Victorinox watches should require no real service beyond regular battery changes. Don’t worry too much about it. They are tough tough watches. Wear and enjoy.
I have a quartz analog watch with a Ronda movement which keeps good time when I don’t wear it but sporadically loses time when I do. I’ve recently discovered that if I wave my smartphone over the watch closely it will lose several seconds there and then. The phone is in a case with a magnetic closure and the phone itself could be emitting electromagnetic waves as well. I usually kept my phone in my left trouser pocket and wore the watch on my left wrist. Since I’ve transferred the watch to my right wrist it’s kept perfect time.
Wow! That is really interesting.
It’s generally thought to be the case that quartz watch movements are less susceptible to magnetic interference than mechanical movements. Your experience certainly seems to indicate that is not a universal rule.
Thanks for sharing that!
Interesting. In a quartz watch, the stepper motor that moves the hands is a magnet, so there is a source of magnatism inside the movement. The problem mechanical watches have with magnatism is the hair spring getting magnetized and its coils sticking.
Greetings from Melbourne Australia.
Leatherman nose plier opens it very well, just place them into facet and twist them. The tool I improvised was not supposed to be.
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Did this solve the issue? I am observing a similar issue with my tissot that has an ETA G10.212quartz movement. Loosing 5 minutes in a few days.
Ankit Badkur, yes. It’s been been behaving perfectly since I did the battery change.
I and a couple of my friends have issues wearing watches, in that they slow or stop when put on, but keep amazing time when taken off. I read somewhere once that it can be down to the electromagnetic field of the wearer being more powerful than normal. One of my watches which was very expensive loses time when I do physical activity, but gains time if I sit around doing nothing.
Wow. That's crazy. I'll have to research the phenomenon.
Humans do not have an electromagnetic field. The balance is getting moved around and experiencing friction and then when you take it off or sit down it gets to settle on the jewel. If it's quartz, the battery is loose.
That problem is what brought me to this video. I have 3 watches and was able to rotate them to work this out - when I wear them I lose time. I thought it was the battery, but the battery is fine if watch is not being worn!
thanks
Do you spend any time on a laptop? Of course you do! Well my friend, there are magnets hidden in the corners of your laptop; they hold the screen closed when you close the laptop. Resting your watch arm on/near those hidden corner magnets will temporarily slow up or stop your quartz watch dead. The watch is affected until you move it away from the corner of your laptop. No permanent harm done, but the watch will appear to be running slow. Try it.
Sadly this has not worked for me. I still have the same problem after changing the battery 3 times with new batteries. So it doesn't seem to be the answer with my watch. So disappointed. Still works off my wrist but on it still loses chunks of time.
That’s a shame. It seems to me it still must be some sort of intermittent contact problem but the electrical connections in quartz watches are so tiny, it may be very difficult to diagnose.
I’m sorry this didn’t solve your problem.
Room temp quarts will run faster than on the wrist.
CONFUCIOUS SAY , HAVE KITTY........ WATCH ON TABLE END UP ON FLOOR .
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Spray WD40 in the movement.
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A bunch of people in the comments claim it works 🤷🏻♂️
Use the clock on your IPhone
I'd rather die in hell, thanks.
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I don't have a smartphone
Vic-to-ri-nox
Not victor-nox, just like your name is not Surban Prolarian.
It's not that difficult, just make an effort and dont be the one to not even know how to spell.
I’m sorry. Are you sure you watched my video and not someone else’s?
I have always pronounced Victorinox, “Vic-tor-i-nox”. And I don’t think any spelling, whatsoever, appears in the video so I’m sure I don’t know what you’re going on about.
Thanks for getting me to rewatch my old video though!
@@SuburbanPathfinder Its not that big a deal but 00:35 , 1:25 and some more, its just something europeans notice, Americans mis-pronounce foreign words like victornox or hundai (hy-un-dai), especially if there are more syllables it becomes apparently difficult, no big deal, it just sounds odd.
Kudos for your vids on the watches and accuracy 👍🏻
@@robber576 I don’t know what to tell you. At both of the time stamps you indicated, I can clearly hear myself pronouncing the second “I” in “Victorinox”. Perhaps we are experiencing some sort of accent barrier?
On a side note, it’s interesting that you should mention Hyundai. I’ve owned Hyundais for a couple of decades at this point. I’m old enough to remember when Hyundai started importing cars into the US in the mid-1980s. When most of us were completely unfamiliar with the brand, we made the assumption that it was pronounced “Hy-un-dai”.
Hyundai (USA) ran a national advertising campaign, on television and radio, instructing Americans that the proper pronunciation of the name was “Hun-day”. I think that one is completely on Hyundai.
Anyway, thanks for watching and commenting.
suburban proletarian? pretentious much?
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Thank You so much for this video. I was considering replacing the movement, but after watching your video, it turned out that the battery wasn’t in place all the way. That’s due to the nature of my job, with multiple heavy impacts on my hands (watch) awesome content! Keep up the good work!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful.