Hi guys,

I got myself an Maurice Lacriox Pontos Day/Date Automatic watch and its my first mechanical watch. Need to ask a few questions for the more experienced ones out there:

1. Does a typical self-winding low-midrange automatic watch run for 42 hours without "recharging" before the time stops?
2. When the watch stops and I wind the crown approximately 50 times and nothing happens. I have to shake the watch before it runs and then it stops a few hours later if I don't wear the watch. Is this suppose to happen? I winded till I felt some resistance indicating I wounded it sufficiently.
3. When wearing the watch the whole day I believe it would sufficiently "charge" the watch due to movement but I feel winding doesn't seem to help.

I can't seem to find such information on my watch and any advice is much appreciated. Thank you.

@ silverwave

Retail price is RM6,400 if I recall correctly. Got approximately 25% discount which works out to RM4,800. Cheers.

@ ck77

Thanks for the advice. I'll likely bring it back this weekend for them to check. Going to test it for a few more days to be sure. Grrr! Doubt they'll do a 1 to 1 exchange. Maybe repair although its less than 1 month old.

@patryn33: Thanks for your reply. Got it checked up and now its ok. Winding works now.