I recently purchased a stauer watch model E-244S on e-bay and did not receive any instruction manual, thought i was getting a quality watch, but really know nothing about the brand or its quality. It is a touberion style with a automatic wind feature. The hands are difficult to read the time and a question if it even going to last ( per www.timezone.com), Would you please tell me what you know about this brand (i.e. quality or lack of) and if I got ripped off in paying $60 for it Thanks, Chris

SOURCE: Rolex runs down

Unfortunately, it actually may be true that the watch is functioning properly.
A self-winding watch that keeps running down can be an early symptom of Parkinson's disease.
Read item 4 "Frozen in Time", at this link, for details:
http://www.dls.ym.edu.tw/neuroscience/news41.html

SOURCE: armitron digital watch

press the mode button until the display lap or blinking then press udjust button to select the digit that you want to chagne

Arturs Kalnins

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• Posted on Jan 14, 2009

SOURCE: Manual for Smash Brand Watch 05-0407

You need to reset your watch completely and to do that, you have to start from battery.
Extract watch battery completely and leave your watch without energy supply for an hour. This will erase any data kept in watch memory.
Then put the battery back in watch exactly the way it was and reset your watch using your manual.
Unfortunately I can't help with manual as the original is the best you can get.

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Arturs Kalnins

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• Posted on Jan 14, 2009

SOURCE: Directions for setting correct time with Smash Watch 05-0407

You need to reset your watch completely and to do that, you have to start from battery.
Extract watch battery completely and leave your watch without energy supply for an hour. This will erase any data kept in watch memory.
Then put the battery back in watch exactly the way it was and reset your watch using pushbuttons.

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Arturs Kalnins

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• Posted on Mar 07, 2009

SOURCE: red hand for dual timezone

If your watch has mechanical- self winding movement, then ALL the gears, hands and functions are mechanically driven and executed. None of the hands can be winded, as the movement of the hands is the consequence of the releasing power of the winded mainspring. All hands (including dual time zone hand) can be udjusted only to the required time and the rest is done automatically by the gears, cogs and levers.
If the dual time zone hand is not functioning properly- there is some mechanical fault and you will have to get the watchmakers help to sort it out.

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