Post service question.

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Originally Posted by Tunacan26

I am. Won't be any problem at all. Just was curious mostly about the "gritty" feeling and sound on winding....

Ok.
So I have to say that I've been tripped up by this issue myself. I had a Rolex years ago that was nice and smooth to wind before and after a service, then I went and dropped it onto a concrete floor about a week or so after it was serviced.
There was extensive damage to the watch with a repair bill to match, with a full service to the movement as part of the scope of work as recommended by the RSC.
The thing was, the winding was a bit rough and gritty after the repair.
As one could imagine this was as concerning to me as it probably is to yourself
To cut a very long story short I was working in another country and had some exposure to the inside of an RSC(part of the long story) and i asked about the phenomenon with the service manager.
To demonstrate to me the extent of the variability of the issue, he brought a few watches to me that were freshly serviced and nearly ready to be returned to the owners and asked me to get a feel of the manual wind function on each watch for comparison.
There was a considerable difference between them all with one that felt worse than mine. Ok, I got it
Regardless, my watch ran absolutely perfect and the manual wind felt the same right up until it was serviced again, then it came back as smooth or perhaps a little smoother than it ever was IIRC
In the ensuing years, I have had the pleasure of migrating to manual wind watches and they have all felt a little gritty and odd as the power is built up when they were brand new and they have all smoothed out to become buttery smooth within a matter of weeks.
I hope this tale helps you to navigate your issue going forward whichever path you choose to take on it