Are you sure you are wearing the watch enough to wind it and keep it charged? The power reserve of the watch is most likely somewhere around the 40 hour mark but you have to 'wind' the watch enough for it to reach that. Here's something to try. Next time you go to wear your watch in the morning before you strap it on your wrist hold it in your hand and swirl it around in a figure 8 shape for a minute. This will allow it to start building it's reserve, so now strap it on and wear it as normal and let the motion of your wrist take over. If you then wear the watch during the day it will have enough reserve built up to last overnight until you start wearing it again and you'll most likely find it won't keep stopping on you.

 

It's not so much that it doesn't keep power.

It's that when it stops completely, it loses time until the second time I reset.

Eg, I won't wear it for two/three days. I wind it and put it on. By lunch, I will find its out for an hour. I reset it and it is accurate again until the watch stops.

 

You know that it's not a hand winding movement right? If you're winding it then putting it on, no wonder it's losing time.

 

Yes. I usually give it a few shakes.

 

A few might not be enough. Shake it for a good 30 seconds and see how you go.

 

Shake for a least 5 minutes! Best 20 mins.

 

20 minutes! Who wants to spend 20 minutes shaking a watch just to give it enough power to run? I'm sorry, but that's OTT and silly.

 

No it's not! A couple of shakes will power up the watch so that you can set time and date. 5 minutes will get you to 2-3 hours power reserve. 20 minutes will give you over 20 hours but not the 40 hours your watch is capable of. Thats why collectors invest in watch winders.

 

Pls power it up. You need to wear it a couple of days.
A few second of shake will only probably power a couple of minutes.

 

Sorry but suggesting that someone should shake a watch for 20 minutes to wind it up for very OTT and completely unnecessary. When you shake a watch all you are doing is just giving it a little boost to get it going before your wrist takes over, you aren't trying to fully wind the watch this way. As said above a minute or so of doing this is all you need to do before putting the watch on.

 

So if you're going to spend 20 minutes shaking it to half wind it, why bother with an automatic? Isn't the whole point of an automatic to wind itself through wearing it rather than having to stop to wind it? I can fully wind my manual winds in less than 2 minutes. I concede that 30 seconds is not enough. 20 minutes is still OTT.

People who don't need watch winders buy them to keep their watches fully wound. People who might need them buy them for their watches with complications that way be difficult to reset on a regular basis, such as moon phase.
I have a fantastic home made watch winder that winds every kind of automatic watch. It's called my wrist.

 

I agree to a point jupiter6, particularly if you own only one automatic. Some say automatics are only accurate when fully or mostly wound. The majority of automatic watches have a 40 hour (plus) power reserve, less than two days. I have five automatics so without a winder it is necessary to reset them after they have run out of juice. OR I can hold two in each hand and gently shake them while watching the TV news.

(Of course my statements only apply to those automatics which can't be manually wound.)

 

 

The thing is though you don't *have* to keep your automatics fully wound. It's no big deal for them to stop of they haven't been on your wrist for a while and you aren't planning on wearing them. I have no idea whether this is the OP's only watch or just one he only wears sometimes. If its indeed a watch that he only wears sometimes then all he has to do is give it a little shake to start it each time or if it really bothers him then to buy a winder if he so desires. I doubt there is anything wrong with his watch, I'd think it's just more a case of someone not quite appreciating how an automatic watch works which is understandable if it is the first one that he has owned.

 

A few months ago I bought an Orient Bambino.

Being my first automatic it took me a while to identify the problem.

The issue is that when the watch stops and is reset, the watch loses time(approximately an hour) and requires resetting.

Once it has been reset the watch is fine, but this means it requires constant wear.

Could this issue be repaired at a watch repair shop?

Unfortunately, my currency has plunged over the last few months and shipping takes months, so I would like to avoid replacing it if possible.

I own a few Orient automatics (black Ray and green Flight). If I wear one three or four days in a row it is perfectly fine. But if I skip a day it will stop, but I don't mind. I usually give it just a few shakes, reset the time, and it's fine all day. I think since I don't wear either one of them everyday, I never get a full charge. I don't believe you need to over shake a watch to get it going.

BTW, I would love to get a Bambino, they are classy looking and have a great reputation! I'm looking at the white dial with rose gold hands applications.

 

Twirl the watch for a couple of minutes to put some juice in it then wear it for the day to see how it performs.

 

200 complete rotations of the rotor will have your Bambino going for 10 hours. Do the math! A few shakes are enough for say 30 minutes. A "shake" is very ambiguous.

 

If you're not very active an automatic will stop. Are these single-direction wind movements? I suspect so. I had a Seiko that I wore all day, every day, but on holidays I got so lazy it stopped due to lack of arm movement. Shake it for a minute in the morning if you do little 'running around'.

 

Orients use Seiko's magic lever winding system. It's a bi-directional winding mechanism.

 

If it's stopped, you need to do a figure 8 for two minutes tops, and if you're reasonably active you're good for the day. One days action will take you 12 hrs overnight

 

Remembering to flick your wrist every now and then is enough. (The wrist with the watch on!!)