dam5173

Thanks for the input. Do you know how much it should cost roughly to get the movement serviced? I want to make sure I don't get ripped off. Thanks!

Hey everyone I just bought my first rep a few weeks ago and received it yesterday. I purchased the new Ceramic 45mm Planet Ocean from Joshua. Like everyone said, Joshua provided excellent service and I was very pleased with the smoothness of the transaction. So on to my problem... this is my first automatic movement watch. So there is the distinct possibility that I am completing missing something. Anyway, the watch arrived completely dead. Which I figured would be the case since there is such a long transit time from Asia. So I have been trying to manually wind the watch, but nothing I do seems to make any difference. The watch simply won't start ticking. To wind the watch I have been unscrewing the crown counter-clockwise until it "pops out" from the case. I then have been turning the crown clockwise to wind it. When I do this, I feel a very slight resistance, like the watch is actually being wound. If I turn the watch over, I can see the gears inside the watch are actually being turned when I rotate the crown clockwise. This is not the case when I turn it counter clockwise. When I turn it counter clockwise (after the crown "pops out"), the gears don't turn at all. I've been winding it this way probably hundreds of times by this point and haven't had any luck. I've tried gently shaking the watching and tapping it against my wrist too. Nothing seems to get it turning. When I received the watch, the seconds hand was at exactly 30. Now it is almost at 32. I don't know if maybe it powered on for enough time to go two seconds. In short, any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to start enjoying my first rep ASAP. Thanks a million everyone!!