Help Please Just Got Rolex Daytona

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Hello all,

This is my first post on this great site I have been reading quite a bit and I have a few questions. I just purchased a gift for my father’s birthday I got him a used Rolex Daytona F serial I believe it is a 2004 model. All the Websites say that the power reserve is 72 hours but my father says that it only lasts about 24 hours or so. I had all the chronographs running prior and now I turned them all off except the little second’s hand. And he is still complaining that it works only for about 24 hours. He wears this watch as an everyday watch here is my questions sorry it is taking so long to get to. Does this power reserve seem correct and second should I buy him a watch winder that he can put it on when he does not wear the watch??? Also what would do more damage to the watch putting it on a winder everyday or manually winding it when it has stopped working? One last question what is the proper way to wind a Daytona it has the Rolex movement. Please I will greatly appreciate everyone’s information. Thanks In advance….

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I'm not sure that you or your dad are properly assessing the power reserve for this watch..

You would need to unscrew the crown and wind it fully, about 50 winds, then set it down, untouched until it stopped to determine power reserve.

If he just wears it, takes it off occasionally, and notices that it stops after 24 hours, he just might not be active enough to put any more "wind" into it than that.

Mechanical, self-wind watches, will always run down to the amount of power that is actually put into the watch on any given day. So, let's say that you are not active enough to put 20 hours in the watch...........it will run down slowy each day from the 72 (when fully wound) until it has only the 20 hours put into it.

Somebody who is quite active will put enough energy into the watch to top-it-off each day, but that is not everybody who wears one.

Your dad might be in the category where he just needs to give the watch a full wind once a month to keep it going..