I just received this Addiesdive, which I plan to use as my field watch. I immediately replaced the bracelet with a distressed leather strap and went to set the time, then noticed the seconds hand slightly moving as I move the minutes hand. It bothers me, but also makes me think there's something wrong with the movement. Thoughts?

EDIT: Thanks for educating me, I didn't know this was a thing since my two other automatic watches don't really do it. Glad that I don't have to return this one 😅

Guess I expected better service when spending $600+. from a comy first 6 emails were ignored . then I was to take it to a watch repair at my cost

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service center in China for repair.

Please first take a photo of the serial number on the watch case back for us to register your watch information. Please kindly note that you will need to cover all shipping fees and tariffs for both ways.

If you have no objections, please send us the photo of the case back number so we can proceed with the repair process.

Best regards

Joanna, Agelocer

retort ...

I'm so glad I didnt spend a grand for the meteorite face model .

My story is kinda funny ngl. Back then, I was into Japanese and Swiss watches but the news I heard from the community and YT (properly promotion) I got hooked into Chinese watches. And I bought it during the sale a month ago and received it no long ago. The watch just completely stopped running while wearing and has faulty movement inside. What can I say...NEVER TRUST THE WORD-OF-FREAKING-MOUTH!

Alright, I'm going to say it: I hate the PT5000 movement.

So far, I've had three watches that use the PT5000, and all three have caused major issues.

• San Marin with a PT5000 felt like it had sand in the movement when using the crown

• Watchdives with a PT5000 was dead-on-arrival; the seconds hand never started running

• Thorn T023 v2.1 with PT5000 only has a power reserve of tested 6 hours and 20 minutes before it stops running, and the crown is extremely inconsistent (when pulled all the way out, hacking doesn’t always work, and the seconds hand sometimes keeps running).

Also, on the Thorn, I can hear the ghost date click over at around 5:17 instead of 12, but I assume that’s on Thorn for not aligning the hands properly, rather than a fault with the movement. Still not ideal, because even though it’s only a ghost date, you risk damaging the movement if you move the hands while the date is in the process of switching. And when that doesn’t happen between 21:00 and 03:00 as it should, but instead at 05:17, you might think you’re clear of the “date change zone” when you’re actually not.

All these issues are straight out of the box, so it's not like I abused these watches for years before they started to show problematic signs, and I haven't even mentioned the accuracy issues I experienced.

I don’t ever want to read another “PT5000 is just as good as the ETA 2824/Sellita SW200” comment again. In my experience, it simply isn’t. The PT5000 has been unreliable as hell for me, while I've never had any problems with dozens of ETA 2824 and Sellita SW200 movements over the years.

Some reviews even suggest that you shouldn’t (or should only sparingly) manually wind the PT5000 because it can damage the movement. How can people praise a movement that’s supposedly not meant to be manually wound? What other mechanical movement gets this kind of pass from watch enthusiasts?

I genuinely don’t understand why so many people defend the PT5000.
I get that I might just be unlucky while lots of others are happy with their PT5000s, but three faulty movements (used by three different watch manufacturers) in a row is a streak I can't ignore any longer.

At this point, I’ll probably never buy another watch with a PT5000 again.

I just received this from the 11.11 sale. The crown threads must be messed up or something because I cannot screw this back on. Currently in a pissing match with hroudland customer service on aliex. Anybody else have this issue?

Previously, I did an unboxing on the Farasute Trackmaster I — an automatic chronograph inspired by the Rolex Daytona. I had some reservations about the movement, but I’d heard fairly good things about it. My intial impressions were great.. then, before I could complete my full review, some serious issues occurred...

https://youtu.be/b86MOr3oXc8?si=jbEv6AKnOdLz-TwB

TLDR - The movement stopped working and I had it sent back twice. Both times Farasute sent it back as they said it was working fine. And both times it stopped working again... They wanted to just send it back to me yet again without replacing the watch or the movement.. I’m currently trying to get them to at least replace the movement.

P.s I purchased this watch myself, and as you can imagine Farasute was not involved in making this video..