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Appropriate tpd for tag heuer calibre 511/10/2022 I wish I could do some testing with the winder as well but the accuracy went from +5 to +12 after having it on the winder for a night (it is a really cheap ebay one and I think it may have magnetised it, other watches were fine on it so that is a bit mysterious), now it is slowly crawling down, +8,+7. Hard to tell how much reserve is left tho. I had mine for 8 days now and it did not stop yet with a routine of wearing it 4-10 hours per day and leaving it on the table when I'm not. However, recently I've been having some crown issues, the cause of which has yet to be determined. That issue was supposed to have been addressed, and there have been no reports on-line of the WAK2110 having the problems its predecessor had. I share your apprehension about the crown stem. Unless you are a fairly active person-I used to walk an hour a day around the park, but it's been too cold lately-I think you'll have to wind the watch. So if you intend to rest your watch for a long period of time, you should first wind it before installing in your winder. Winders simply maintain whatever reserve you have left. So if your watch is running slow, it's a good sign that it's about to stop. When the watch slows down-at least in my case-it's because the reserve is running low. But recently, since I've been less active, I find I have to wind the watch every three or four days. In the beginning, when I was more active, I didn't have to wind the watch. I'm a bit scared to keep fiddling with the stiff crown given past problems with the AR models. APPROPRIATE TPD FOR TAG HEUER CALIBRE 5 FULLI have not yet tried the power reserve test where I manually wind the watch 40 full turns and just let it be and see how long it lasts. (4) Anyone else having a hard time with the power reserve in their Calibre 5 SW200 movements? Any suggestions? I do have plenty of warranty left on the watch but I don't want to send it in and have it opened, I like to keep the factory seal for as long as I can. (3) Is it normal for movements to run slow once their reserve is depleted? Do they get regulated to run well when they are fully "charged"? Is it the case that winders are not able to add to the reserve if the reserve is already low? (2) I tried a higher setting on my winder "30 minutes on, 3 hours off = 1080 TPD" and the watch still stopped after 30 hrs or so in the winder. Is it the number of TPDs so that the movement maintains its current reserve level? So if I would like to add to the reserve I should run it at a higher TPD to account for my wrist "laziness" during the day? (1) It's unclear to me what the 650 TPD for the SW200 really means. The setting on the winder is bi-directional 10 minutes on, 90 minutes off = 864 TPD (Turns Per Day) - at least that's the adverised number, I'm sure it's not exactly accurate but from what I read the SW200 needs about 650 TPD so that should be plenty. It doesn't seem to be the case with the Tag, after about a day of leaving it in the winder I noticed that the Tag stopped. It's one of those cheap "Diplomat" winders that you can get from Amazon for $50 - I've had it for almost 2 yrs and it keeps other ETA 2824 watches going for weeks. So I decided to keep the watch in a winder at night. Now I'm not overly active during the day, I work at a desk/computer so not a lot of wrist movement. But as I wear it for a few days (only during the day for about 12 hrs, then it either just sits on my desk or it goes in a winder - more on that below) it seems to start losing about 5 sec/day. I noticed that when it's fully "charged" the accuracy is very good, within 1 sec. I understand that these days the Calibre 5 movement is a Sellita SW200 so I assume that's what mine has too. I recently got a TAG WAK2110 watch and have some questions regarding its movement.
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