I'm a little bummed

[falcon4311]

I just took delivery of a Breitling Headwind, a watch I've been trying to track down for some time. At first I noticed that it was running slow, to the tune of -1 every 3.5 hours after just giving it a couple minutes worth of shaking to get the watch going. I then found it maintaining the time virtually at 0 over a 12 hour period on what I thought must be close to a full wind. So to make sure she was sitting at a full wind, I gave the watch a few shakes to get rotor spinning. I had synced the watch again prior the giving it a shake and I noticed after giving it a light shake for a few minutes it gains a few seconds and then maintains the time when just worn on the wrist.

I had this happen before with another watch years ago but I can't remember what the watchmaker said the problem was or how much it cost to fix the issue. Can anyone tell me what the issue might be and a guess on what it might cost to fix? This watch came from a Rolex Service Center in CA. He didn't service the watch but he did inspect it and put it on the timing machine which turned out to be good and it was a 5 position test, it was a trade in for another watch. His customer said that he had it serviced 2 years ago and the guy I bought it from said it looked to have been recently serviced. After the inspection he took it in and that's when I bought it.

I'm stuck in between a rock and a hard place, he told me if there were issues with the watch I could return it but I get the impression that he wouldn't want to ship it back to me, he would only give me a refund. But I really want to keep the watch. Your help would be greatly appreciated if you can tell me what the problem might be and give me an approximate repair cost. Sorry for being so long winded.






I already had this reply, it's just that I don't have this issue with any of my other watches other than that one from a long time ago.

There was an excellent post awhile ago (sorry, I can't remember the author) that explained how shaking a watch in just the right rhythm can, indeed, cause the watch to become a couple of seconds "off."

Seriously, just wind your watch and don't shake it and you will not have any problems.