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Re: Seamaster Won't Reset Automatically
In Response To: Seamaster Won't Reset Automatically ()

: Had Seamaster 300m Automatic for 3 weeks.
: Put it down for 3 days, it stopped.
: 2 days later picked it up and 'wound it
: manually' and it wouldn't wind to the
: correct time. Had to reset it manually.

: I thought it should reset itself, am I wrong?

Either I'm completely misunderstanding what you are trying to say -- or you have a totally incorrect concept of how a mechanical watch works.

The statement "it wouldn't wind to the correct time" makes no sense to me. Winding has nothing to do with setting the time. Winding adds power to a spring to keep it running -- nothing more.

Mechanical watches -- in fact far over 99% of all types of watches and clocks ever made -- do not have the ability to automatically set the correct time themselves. You have to manually set the time on a watch after it has stopped.

So I'm not sure what you were expecting it to do.

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