Old Navitimer second hand issues

[Jim Smyth]

Just bought and received a Breitling Old Navitimer II D13022 model today. The watch for its age looks real nice. It came with a black leather Breitling buckle band. When I tired to use the Chronograph feature the second hand would only go around almost once and stop just before the 12 o'clock position. A lite tap on my palm and it would continue around again to almost the 12 o'clock position and then stop. All the time this was happening over the course of about 15 minutes the 12 and 6 o'clock dial never advanced at all.

Obviously bummed out like nobody's business. I contacted the company I bought it from and they emailed me a shipping label and back it went today. They told me there watchmaker will look at it ASAP and hopefully I will have it back on Thursday. Not bad service and the sales guy told me it may have been damaged in shipping is the only thing they can assume.

I guess anything can happen but it was packaged well with no evidence of damage to the box. Anyway while I wait and ponder when it will get fixed has anyone else out there heard of this problem? I assume my watch cant be the only one to have this problem. I have been doing some research and someone on a thread just mentioned a term called hacking the second hand with the crown in the second pulled out position? This is my first Breitling Navitimer so I am not that familiar with all the terms or idiosyncrasies.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The watch is very striking in person and I also bought a era specific bracelet for this watch which was also delivered today. Cant wait for them to be introduced. ;) I did plan on giving the watch to the wife to wrap up for me for Christmas so all is not lost time wise. She is always looking for something to get me and now I broke the code. :D

TIA, Jim