3230 Manual Winding

[Clon3]

Hello,

On my very recently purchased 3230 no-date sub, I'm not sure if I feeling something unusual when manually winding it.

When manually winding the watch on generally topped up power reserve, it has this gritty winding feel, almost feels like a piece of sand will randomly cause a minor restriction after every 4-5 winds. No extra force is needing to overcome this randomness, but you can definitely feel/hear a difference in winding noise when this happens.

Also, occasionally during winding, there is also this "empty" feel between a wind. It kind feels like an empty threshold of the gears not "catching" for a 1/4 turn before catching the winding mechanism again. This is a very rare occasion, but I did hear something about the manual wind doesn't fully engage which creates this "open" feeling.

Not sure if this happens to other 32XX movements. I never really wound the watch much since my purchase since it's always on my wrist, but noticed this today. Otherwise, the watch winds fine and keeps great time. -1s/day.

Thanks.