Watch lags behind after battery change. Now it lags by about 5 minutes everyday.
Recently had battery changed after the watch starts ticking every 5 second to indicate a low battery status. After the change, I noticed that everyday it would lag by about 5 minutes such that if I don't manually reset the time for a week it went off by half an hour! Please help.
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Hi Mark,
It appears to be a battery problem. Have you changed the battery recently? How have you checked the battery? I suggest you check the battery's voltage, even if it is a new, replaced battery.
You need to be sure the battery is not the problem before looking elsewhere.
Need more detail if this does not help, including the model of watch. Also how long has this problem existed, and when did you notice a change - was there a specific time/event?
mcdevito75 here, There can be many, many reasons why a watch stops ticking, Have you wound the watch?? is the watch a Quartz?? when did you have it cleaned and oiled last?? how old is the watch??. You can try this, Reset the time on your watch, at times, pulling out the stem and moveing the hands will get a watch to start ticking again, primarily in older watches. If it"s a Quartz watch the battery may be dead. I do some work on watches and I'll be glad to look at the watch for you. Contact me at [email protected] for details.
I don't know what the trouble is with your watch. I can tell you every watch I ever owned ran 5 minutes behind. No matter when or where I set it nor how often I set it, within 24 hours, it was 5 minutes behind, never 6, never 4, always 5. After years of questions, I just accepted that my wrist watches would always be 5 minutes behind.
I presume the watch is new ... so cleaning is not a realistic problem. Maybe you should return it to the place you purchased it from and see what they have to offer.
Read carefully about Radio-controled time keeping and other related chapters. If after performing all the required operations your watch still does not work properly, you have some kind of fault in the Integrated Circuitboard and will need to seek for watchmakers help- probably an IC replacement. Do not forget to rate, please.
Offhand, I would say yes to the battery replacement. Though watches are not within my immediate field. This would be based on your post "2-5 minutes behind". As to the "lost signal" after a reset, may I request that you post back the specific model number pls.
Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back as requested, how things turned up or should you need additional information. Good luck and kind regards. Thank you for using FixYa.
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