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Old 7 November 2019, 04:22 AM   #1
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Deep sea d-blue winding behavior

Good day all,

Need advice please, few days back I received my new d-blue deep sea from my AD. Today for the first time I wear it so obviously it needed winding.

In the beginning the winding felt buttery smooth same way I am used to with my submariner and GMT. However, after roughly 30 crown rotations it started to feel rough and mechanical resistance. A feeling never experienced before. As if something got stuck between the gears.

This is the first watch I own with the new movement. Is that normal? Did I over wind it and damaged something?

I screwed down the crown and wore it and it is working fine keeping perfect time since then.

Pease help me understand what happened.
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Old 7 November 2019, 04:42 AM   #2
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I think it’s normal as my new gmts feel grittier to wind as well
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Old 7 November 2019, 04:45 AM   #3
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Mine winds smoothly but to be honest I don't think I ever got to 30 turns...
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Old 7 November 2019, 04:49 AM   #4
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I think you are feeling the clutch slip at the very top of the mainspring’s winding point. That is normal to feel the clutch slip. You can even hear it if you listen close enough. You certainly can not over wind a Rolex. You can wind it 100 times and once you get past that 60 full turn mark the clutch just slips over to avoid any over winding damage.

If you’re ever concerned about any damage to your mainspring here’s what you do: You need to do a main spring/power reserve test. All you do is wind the watch 60-70 times till it’s full. Set the watch down and don’t touch it until it stops. Keep track of how many hours it took from a full wind till the movement stops. That will tell you if your mainspring is within spec. If your watch stops under 60 hours then you have a issue. You should be able to get over 70 hours power reserve.. I do this test once a year with all my watches. Think of it as a ekg of your watch’s health.
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Old 7 November 2019, 05:12 AM   #5
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I think you are feeling the clutch slip at the very top of the mainspring’s winding point. That is normal to feel the clutch slip. You can even hear it if you listen close enough. You certainly can not over wind a Rolex. You can wind it 100 times and once you get past that 60 full turn mark the clutch just slips over to avoid any over winding damage.

If you’re ever concerned about any damage to your mainspring here’s what you do: You need to do a main spring/power reserve test. All you do is wind the watch 60-70 times till it’s full. Set the watch down and don’t touch it until it stops. Keep track of how many hours it took from a full wind till the movement stops. That will tell you if your mainspring is within spec. If your watch stops under 60 hours then you have a issue. You should be able to get over 70 hours power reserve.. I do this test once a year with all my watches. Think of it as a ekg of your watch’s health.


Thank you for this advice. The watch is acting normally since then. I will let it consume the power reserve and see if it stays 70 hours and will check the winding behavior after consuming the power reserve. Cheers
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Old 7 November 2019, 06:08 AM   #6
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I think you are feeling the clutch slip at the very top of the mainspring’s winding point. That is normal to feel the clutch slip. You can even hear it if you listen close enough. You certainly can not over wind a Rolex. You can wind it 100 times and once you get past that 60 full turn mark the clutch just slips over to avoid any over winding damage.

If you’re ever concerned about any damage to your mainspring here’s what you do: You need to do a main spring/power reserve test. All you do is wind the watch 60-70 times till it’s full. Set the watch down and don’t touch it until it stops. Keep track of how many hours it took from a full wind till the movement stops. That will tell you if your mainspring is within spec. If your watch stops under 60 hours then you have a issue. You should be able to get over 70 hours power reserve.. I do this test once a year with all my watches. Think of it as a ekg of your watch’s health.


Sweet! Thnx for that!


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Old 7 November 2019, 06:35 PM   #7
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There is no real clutch in the auto wind mechanism, all that happens when the mainspring is fully wound it just slips in the spring-barrel, which on the 32 series movements the spring-barrel is much thinner than the 31 series.
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Old 7 November 2019, 08:26 PM   #8
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padi nailed again I've seen pics the new movements barrel is a lot thinner to improve the power reserve
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Old 7 November 2019, 08:54 PM   #9
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3235 movement

I prefer the feel of the 3135s to my 3235s in winding ,feels smoother .

Have a few 3135s ... accurate for many years,none have been serviced for 9 years .Tough .
3235 ? ..will have to see .
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Old 7 November 2019, 09:45 PM   #10
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There is no real clutch in the auto wind mechanism, all that happens when the mainspring is fully wound it just slips in the spring-barrel, which on the 32 series movements the spring-barrel is much thinner than the 31 series.
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