Minute hand loose on 7750 when setting time?

[vric]

Hi,

I received my first A7750 watch today after near 3 years of rep collecting (what have I done? ) and so far so good. Everything reset perfectly, chrono is working fine and what an insane watch it is (will post review later this week)

Small question: When I pull the crown to set the time, the minute hand is a bit "loose". What I mean, is, usually you get friction when you set the time, but on this one, there is about a 2 minutes "range" when the hand can move by simply blowing on the crown In other word, it's very sensitive. Once set, everything look fine..

Just wondering if it's normal since my Seagull and ETAs don't make that.

I'm currently testing it for time keeping

Sorry if i'm not clear.. hard to explain

Edit: Watch "lost" this minute while working. Not that the watch loose time (the second hand is +1sec after 5h) but the minute hand is 1 minute behind.. Probably because of that. Not that I really matter, but since I'm curious of how watches are working, I would like to know "why"

Edited August 27, 2007 by vric

[azerbyjam]

I have exactly the same thing on my new Tag Aquaracer, I'm hoping this is normal too.

[PAMman]

This is completely normal on the Asian 7750 and, in my experience, on the original Swiss ETA/Valjoux 7750 to a lesser extent also. It seems that this is a design quirk that may be exaggerated in the Asian copy due to machine tolerance levels being lower. I always set the time 'backwards' by going a couple of minutes past the current time then reversing the minute hand to precisely the desired time. This eliminates any 'slack' and keeps the minute hand correct.