Deep Sea Dweller Reserve Issue?

[johnk]

I had my DSD serviced by the Dallas RSC a few months ago, excellent experience. When winding and setting the watch a month or so ago, something felt odd and it took several attempts to get the stem in the correct “setting” or “wind” position before I could turn the hands or wind.

I’ve noticed recently that the watch is always dead every other day. I wind it 40+ full turns, wear it actively ~4 hours each day, and every other day it stops, as though it’s not self winding and running off its reserve time. I’ve owned dozens over the years and presently have 8 Rolex Sports watches.

This one is my daily driver, and gets more wrist time than the others. I realize it’s not an exact science, but I’ve never experienced this issue before.

Simply a function of not enough wrist time to self wind? I’ve had others before this DSD in daily wear rotation that have gone weeks before I stopped wearing them enough to self wind.

I’ll test it the next time it stops, fully wind, wear, note the wear hours and the exact time it stops to see whether it’s consistent with the watches reserve time..

Thanks.

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