• Apprentice
    29 Apr 2016, 11:55 a.m.

    Hello everyone,

    I've always been an enthusiast of IWC watches and now finally I'm proud to say I'm also an owner.Thanks for all the good info and pieces of advice that are in the forums. Good stuff.

    I've recently purchased a IWC Pilot mark XVI -second hand comes with one year warranty-. I'm a bit concerned about the manual winding. I understand you can do this -as per the watch manual- when the crown is in position 0 -winding position-. When the watch has stopped completely, and I manually wind the watch, I can do it 30-40 times but basically the seconds hand doesn't move at all. My question, is this normal at all? I would expect that when you manually wind the watch, at one point the seconds hand should be moving even though you don't wear the watch on your wrist. Am I right? I'm concerned something's wrong here.

    Other wise when I wear the watch, it works pretty much fine, but after a day or so wearing it, when I go to sleep, I notice the morning after that it stops after a few hours -when it should have around 40 hours of power reserve-.

    Any help please?

    Thank you all very much.

    MR

  • Connoisseur
    29 Apr 2016, 2:22 p.m.

    You should definitely be able to wind it and it should probably start after 5-10 winds of the crown. It's possible it needs to be serviced. Do you need to shake it to get it to start going?

  • Apprentice
    29 Apr 2016, 4:50 p.m.

    Many thanks for your reply.

    Yes, I need to do that otherwise it doesn't start going.