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: about 10 - 12 hours and removing it at
: night. After doing this for 5 day and then
: wearing it for 6 hours on the 6th day my
: watch stopped after 11-13 hours of not being
This is not unusual for people who are wearing an automatic watch less than half the day. Wearing it part time is often not enough to keep it anywhere nearly fully wound. Your specific level of activity may be low enough in the types of motion that actually wind the watch that 10-12 hours a day is not enough.
Based on a very rough, unscientific survey, I have noticed that people who wear their automatics for at least 14 hours of the ACTIVE part of the day ususally have no problems. Most such questions I get are from people wearing their automatic for 12 or less hours a day.
Your watch should run for at least 42-44 hours from the point of being fully wound. Based on your report of it running only about 11 hours after you took it off, that would correlate to your frequency of wearing and type of activity leaving the watch only 1/4 wound at the part of the day you take it off.
To fully test your watch, take it off. Manually wind it for about 30-40 turns. Leave it off for at least two days and see how long it takes to run down. If it runs for at least 40-42 hours, your watch is perfectly fine.
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