Question for Vacheron Caliber 4400 owners

[AlyRba]

Hi,

I bought a VC 1921 last week. When I wind the watch, the seconds hand doesn’t start moving until I turn the watch to look at caseback OR take out and push the crown back. It doesn’t matter how many winding turns I have done on the crown, it seems as if the watch needs a slight movement/twist of the watch case itself to start once a sufficient power reserve has been achieved. This is unlike my other manual wind watches, few langes and a Journe, where the seconds hand starts moving after few winding turns.

Let me know if someone else has experience this with Vacheron’s manual wind caliber 4400.

[liu_watch]

Usually a movement requires 10-20 turns to get the second hand moving. Or if less than that, give it a gentle swing, it will start running again. I’ve had watches that wouldn’t star running after couple dozen turns. In my cases, the watches were a little overdue for service. But your case may vary. How old is your watch?

[AlyRba]

Originally Posted by liu_watch

Usually a movement requires 10-20 turns to get the second hand moving. Or if less than that, give it a gentle swing, it will start running again. I’ve had watches that wouldn’t star running after couple dozen turns. In my cases, the watches were a little overdue for service. But your case may vary. How old is your watch?

New watch bought from AD, and my understanding is that they received it directly from VC before shipping it to me.

[PJ S]

Return it to be resolved as a warranty repair.
There is an issue which is preventing the watch from working normally when it has sufficient torque built up within the mainspring to overcome the friction of the going train, etc.