massimo

It was the "Worth Collectable" that clinched it really.

Of course it's keeping much better time than my SSD, but somehow I think I'll be going back to that anyway.

Does it float?

LOL, I think it might!

Finally the PERFECT SUB

It had to be out there somewhere.

By the way, it's true what they say, it's surprisingly light in weight compared with some other watches.

I've just received one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BLACK-TRANSLUCENT-AC...1742.m153.l1262

They must be getting popular, because mine was a "buy it now" at

My first contribution to these threads, but I've just got this from Eurotimez and I love it. Been wearing it all week in fact.

Very nice looking watch. I love the Speedmaster and that one is a great choice because the rep is so close to the gen. Nice choice with the strap too, looking good.

http://www.replica-watches-guide.com

go take a look at the message - "Down for maintenance. Trying to fix CPU exceeded errors."

Could be progress. Here's hoping...

@JohnG - thanks for finding us a new home, I've just dropped by the Looney Bin on this forum and I see it's business as usual there in an RWG1 stylee. Good to see

Massimo reporting in. Haven't been posting much but have been lurking here as well as over at RWG1. You can't beat RWG1 for sheer fun in my view, but I'm coming to appreciate the incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise here too.

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Here are some specifics:

-The rotor is very loud. It vocally "clicks" in one direction, (this direction is assumingly winding the watch). When spun the opposite direction, some sort of built up energy seems to be releasing itself as the rotor spins on, and on, and on... for all to hear! "Is my watch supposed to make loud grinding noises?" "Why is that watch making so much noise?".. Not good. Not expected.

-The power reserve is, well, nill. Once or twice a day, the watch will just stop.

-The date change position slips. The crown needs to be pushed in, then the date position reingaged to continue to change the date.

- The movement will stop when the crown is fully screwed down. This can be fixed by trimming the stem.

- The hack feature does not work on one of them.

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This post seems to have saved the day for my Sub with this movement. As noted above, it kept stopping, probably for a variety of reasons, but I filed a bit off the stem as per the point above and, while I had the back off, removed the rotor and lubricated the bearings behind it (a suggestion from another thread). After a couple more days when it stopped once a day, the movement has been running continously now during five days of normal wear, without any manual winding. The rotor is much less noisy, and I can now hear it winding when rotated next to the ear. It loses about a minute a day, but at least I currently have a working watch.

The date change still slips by the way, as described above, but the hack feature still works, in fact a bit too well since it works at the date change position as well as the hand setting position.

Thank goodness for the forums though. Not only interesting reading and valuable buying advice, but I was just about resigned that my watch was scrap, and it would have been if not for these threads.

Hi P4GTR

I found your post through the search because I've had my Noobmariner for 2 weeks and have had a very similar experience, and I've been trying to work out what's wrong with it, because it tends to keep stopping.

On receipt I gave it a few slow winds and strapped it on - usual automatic procedure. It ran fine, but stopped overnight. I wound it more fully the next day and it started straight away so wore it again, although it randomly lost 10 minutes here and there, so I concluded it kept stopping and starting during wear. I wound it again and put it on my watch winder for a few days. It still kept stopping, increasingly often. I had sussed out that it winds only in one direction, so had the winder set accordingly so thought I'd be OK, but eventually it was obvious that the spring had simply run down. Yesterday I took the back off to look at the movement.

The rotor is exactly as you described: it is almost frictionless in the non-winding direction, but seems very stiff in the winding direction, it almost needs a jerk to wind it rather than just gravity, so my theory is that it simply isn't winding in normal use. That is still my theory, since I wound it manually last night, and it ran overnight so I wore it today and apart from losing a couple of minutes, it's been OK.

I also have the problem with date change position slipping, and the hack is a bit dodgy too: it will stop the watch, but when you turn the hands you have to maintain outward pressure to stop it slipping back to the date setting position, then it clicks out the last little bit and hacks fully.

Does anybody have any thoughts on the validity of my theory, and how I might free up the auto winding? If not, and it continues to perform this way I can always wear it by winding it manually once (or twice?) a day.

I have other reps which were sold as having ETA movements and have never a problem, so I'm feeling like you get what you pay for with reps, as with so much in life. Shame about this one though: for the price it's great, but the movement is the weak point, and in the end, there's nothing more annoying than an unreliable watch.