209 Discussions and CommentsMember since Nov. 16, 2004ashford,
United Kingdom
I have the 5001/14 and will check this also but Indid have a problem once when I set the time and pushed in the crown the second hand was moving but the hour hand and minute hand were just stuck. I then reset it again and now it is fine but will be sending it in for a service soon as it gains 2 minutes in two days. Farhad
10 Discussions and CommentsMember since March 31, 2011
Thanks for the replies here guys. I think we will just put this down to a bad batch.
Can anyone advise if I wait until servicing to have this fixed and the warranty has lapsed will IWC still fix the problem (given that it left the factory in a faulty state)?
3,726 Discussions and CommentsMember since March 28, 2001
For some reason I didn't notice this thread before. If I get the problem right, the issue is that when the hours hand is exactly at the hour marker, the minutes hand is not exacly at the 12 marker, right? And that seems more the case at certain hours than at other hours. I noticed that at my Portuguese Perpetual Calendar at about 4 o'clock, and at my rose gold VC Portuguese at 12 o'clock. That last one is very noticeable of course. It all are different movements, I always thought that due to some slack of the hours hand this could be possible, and that a new setting of the hands might correct this if the abberation would be too much. I had the AD look at the Perpetual Calendar, he thought the dial might be a bit off centre, which would explain the abberation showing at certain hours a bit more than at other hours. Then a new dial would solve the issue. In the end I noticed I could live with it (I might even be able to live with one leg, it seems) so I let the issue pass until a real service overhaul, which still is not necessary because the watches all run beautifully.
Kind regards, Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
Farhad
Can anyone advise if I wait until servicing to have this fixed and the warranty has lapsed will IWC still fix the problem (given that it left the factory in a faulty state)?
Mark
Last edited: 2 August, 2011 - 19:43
Kind regards,
Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
Last edited: 23 October, 2011 - 13:31