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I'm a new member and a total timepiece newbie, and I have a question: I wear a several-years-old Seiko Titanium daily beater that I really like--but I'm really tough on it in daily wear (it's on it's third band and second crystal). It has held up great to years of abuse and appears to still be accurate within about a second or so a month. However, lately it's started doing something unusual.. instead of it's normal "tick,tick,tick,tick" movement, the sweep second hand is now advancing TWO seconds at a time instead of one and then pausing, as in "tick-tick....tick-tick....tick-tick...etc. This anomaly doesn't appear to have affected the accuracy, the watch still seems to keep near-perfect time. I wondered if it needs a battery, but every time it's needed a battery before, it simply stopped running without exhibiting anything like this current behavior, so I'm concerned this might be some sort of mechanical problem.

Is this a signal my favorite "work watch" is getting ready to die on me? Thanks in advance for any sage opinions.
 
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Makes sense, I'm just glad to hear it's not something serious, I really like this watch for it's toughness and the fact that it has traditional numbers on the face. :) I guess I just never noticed this happening before when batteries died, they appeared to just quit with no warning. Anyway, I'll get it replaced this week. Thanks!
 
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Shagrath said:
I'm not sure if all quartz watches do the two second jump but I know some of the good ones do. I read that Citizen Eco Drive watches will do it when they are in low power mode.
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My Eco-Drive does the 2 second hope and even does a 4 second hop. I've never let it get any further than that so I don't know what else it might do.
At any rate, a sun bath quickly restores it to full charge :)
 
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How about a pic?

picker77 said:
I'm a new member and a total timepiece newbie, and I have a question: I wear a several-years-old Seiko Titanium daily beater that I really like--but I'm really tough on it in daily wear (it's on it's third band and second crystal). It has held up great to years of abuse and appears to still be accurate within about a second or so a month. However, lately it's started doing something unusual.. instead of it's normal "tick,tick,tick,tick" movement, the sweep second hand is now advancing TWO seconds at a time instead of one and then pausing, as in "tick-tick....tick-tick....tick-tick...etc. This anomaly doesn't appear to have affected the accuracy, the watch still seems to keep near-perfect time. I wondered if it needs a battery, but every time it's needed a battery before, it simply stopped running without exhibiting anything like this current behavior, so I'm concerned this might be some sort of mechanical problem.

Is this a signal my favorite "work watch" is getting ready to die on me? Thanks in advance for any sage opinions.
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Shagrath said:
Cool video, I wear my Citizen sometimes just to keep it charged. :)
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Thanks. I usually leave it out so it can stay charged, but I was making a bunch of YouTube videos to show the watch's various features, so I purposely kept it in a drawer, and took it out from time to time to use the features and wear the battery down a bit so I could make a video of it doing the two second tango.
 
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