I think my new explorer is too fast

[seanbrooklyn]

Hi to all, I love this site and am very happy to have found it, my wife has just purchased my first rolex on our anniversary two weeks ago in the bahamas, I am a proud owner of a brand new explorer
my question is, after about 24 hrs of being wound, my watch is about 30-50 seconds fast and then after the first 24 hrs it settles to about 2 seconds fast per day. is this normal? what should I do? any help will be nice. thanks.

[Lol-x]

Hi & welcome.
My first question is whether you wound your watch by hand (winding crown) about 30-40 times when you first put your watch on i.e. at the start of day one.
If you did not do so, then your watch might exhibit unusual timekeeping.
If you did wind your watch at the start of day one as said above, then 30 seconds is way too much out of proper time keeping.
Day 2 you say your watch is only 2 seconds out. Well this is quite normal and is within accepted tolerences (-4 to +6 seconds). You can adjust this + or - a couple of seconds by the position you leave your watch resting at night.
Give it a few more days, and if you haven't ever wound your watch up properly, then I would do so to give it a full wind.
Good Luck

[ohlins]

would be better to monitor the time keeping for a couple of weeks.....:)

[GrandDaddy]

Originally Posted by seanbrooklyn

Hi to all, I love this site and am very happy to have found it, my wife has just purchased my first rolex on our anniversary two weeks ago in the bahamas, I am a proud owner of a brand new explorer
my question is, after about 24 hrs of being wound, my watch is about 30-50 seconds fast and then after the first 24 hrs it settles to about 2 seconds fast per day. is this normal? what should I do? any help will be nice. thanks.

Maybe is has a V8 engine instead of a V6? LOL

[Oyster Lover]

Originally Posted by seanbrooklyn

Hi to all, I love this site and am very happy to have found it, my wife has just purchased my first rolex on our anniversary two weeks ago in the bahamas, I am a proud owner of a brand new explorer
my question is, after about 24 hrs of being wound, my watch is about 30-50 seconds fast and then after the first 24 hrs it settles to about 2 seconds fast per day. is this normal? what should I do? any help will be nice. thanks.

Any AD should be able to caliberate it if it needs it... These watches can achieve great accuracy - my new GMT-II, amazingly, is only 1 second fast after five days living on a rotator (and I originally set it to the Naval Observatory Master Clock).

[Tools]

I can live with fast cars and fast women....

But a fast watch.......Well, if it's only a couple of seconds, OK.

Your watch is only two weeks old. I would discount the initial winding because - well, you just don't really know how long it sat in that dark box until you freed it into the wild. You say it is only a couple of seconds fast now; that is acceptable.

[SPACE-DWELLER]

Maybe you have mis-read the various threads/posts that state that one should wind the Rolex crown about 40 full rounds and read 400?

(sorry, couldn't help it)