For those suggesting he hand-wind it, the movement in his watch doesn’t do that.

If you’re pretty sedentary, it might not be reaching its full wind during the day. If you can, I would try being more active for the last few hours before bed, and see if it still dies overnight. It could also be defective but I would try that first.

Annnddd......it quit again this morning! And I was pretty active yesterday.

I would wind it once a week if you aren't willing to get a winder.

Just be careful to not overwind it.

Automatic watches need winding, I would say the fact that it only stopped 3 times in 6 months is pretty good for someone who never winds it or spends a few minutes shaking it per week.

Edit: I can't believe they make automatic watches that can hand wind. That's insane.

I would just get a winder then...

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Originally posted by Scurvy:


Edit: I can't believe they make automatic watches that can hand wind. That's insane.

I would just get a winder then...

The 7s26 is a basic Seiko movement. They went cheap on it. It's solid but lacking hand wind and hack.

RMD

I have 50yr old automatics that don't hack and they still hand wind.

From dive watch review

The Seiko SKX007 is powered by Seiko’s caliber 7s26, a lower-end, budget, mechanical automatic movement. It features 21 jewels, and runs at 21,600 beats per hour. It’s wound by Seiko’s patented Magic Lever system, with a bi-directional winding mechanism powered by the movement of the wearers wrist. When fully wound, it can keep ticking for ~48hrs (power reserve) so no worries about not wearing it for a day and finding it’s stopped. It lacks several features that you’d see in a higher end movement, such as hacking seconds and the ability to hand wind. Its accuracy also suffers, with anywhere from 20 seconds slow to 40 second fast per day being usual when received. My personal review piece is actually outside of this range, running an average of -30/s/day. However, this seems to be highly variable, with several people reporting that theirs runs at an impressive +5/s/day. So while I wouldn’t say I’m happy with -30/day, it really doesn’t bug me too much. I reset the time about every three days in order to keep it within a couple minutes of the real time. For anybody that would enjoy more accuracy, I’ve heard that allowing a watch-maker to regulate the movement can result in drastic improvements.

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
Get a Seiko solar watch. It's the only way I will go from now on.

Jim

What he said. I'll never go back. It retired my Rolex permanently.