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Rolex Explorer II Question
I have a 2017 Explorer 2 which keeps excellent time. However, recently the hour hand loses an hour or more while the minute hand maintains perfect time. Anybody experience this?
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Any changes in how the hour hand fast setting feels? Because this sounds like the spring on your gmt wheel is broken.
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Fast setting of hour hand feels and looks normal. In fact, I fast set it 24 hrs. clockwise looking for anomalies but the hour hand changed crisply each hour. Could I have caused some damage by fast setting it once counter-clockwise?
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I quick jump backwards my hour hands on my 3285s all the time. That's totally fine.
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It sounds like you'll need a service, if the spring is broken doesn't really matter since it's included in the cost anyway like most parts that are susceptible to wear. |
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After fast setting it forward 24 hrs.2 days ago, the hour hand is advancing normally. If it happens again, it goes in for service.
Thanks for your inputs. |
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Keep an eye on it and if it happens again, off to the RSC.
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Seems Fixed
After the problem continued, I reset everything from midnight setting all hands pointing to 12. It's been running properly for two weeks now. Looks like that reset did the trick. It makes no sense to me as to why the hour hand dropped back an hour a day before.
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Finally fixed
Got my watch serviced by Rolex and it was restored like new. The problem as explained by the tech stemmed from changing the date backward vs. forward. Apparently with the newer Rolexes, the date should always be advanced, never rotated ccw through the date. This damaged a gear causing the hour hand to drop back.
LESSON LEARNED. |
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I will have to check but I don’t think that is mentioned anywhere - I sort of even remember reading that it was ok to do on the 3187 or 3285 movements. |
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https://content.rolex.com/v7/dam/med...orer-ii_en.pdf
Look at page 16 of the manual - doesn’t it say you can set the date CW or CCW? Or did I misunderstand what the tech said? |
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Interesting.. seems like a crucial piece of information that should be in the manual. I'm assuming there is no concern moving the hour/minute hands backwards as well?
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[QUOTE=rlee58;13282058]Interesting.. seems like a crucial piece of information that should be in the manual. I'm assuming there is no concern moving the hour/minute hands backwards as well?[/QUO
Should be no problem moving the hands backwards. Just don't move the date backwards. |
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On a GMT the date should be able to be set backwards or forwards - in fact it needs to be for full use of the complication. Something doesn't sound right here.
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