Submariner stiff bezel

[Nigel_O]

I wear my Sub most days, and take it off at night. I certainly don’t dive with it - the only time it gets wet is in the shower.

I also never rotate the bezel. However, I’m a bit OCD and I must have knocked the bezel at some point, so the ‘pip’ wasn’t at 12 o’clock.

However, when I tried to reset it, the bezel was very stiff and when it eventually moved, there was almost no clicking.

It’s well overdue a service (9 years old now), so is it just best to send it into my local AD (WoS in Birmingham) or is there an easy home fix?

FWIW, I don’t think it needs a service - when I wore it 24 hours a day, it used to lose 3 seconds a day, but now I take it off at night, it gains 10 seconds a month, which I find amazingly accurate.

[Nigel_O]

dom9 said:

Which Submariner is it?

114060 from 2015

As I don't tend to fiddle with the bezel, I'm going to try the warm water trick first (although I couldn't even turn the bezel in the shower last night...)

If that doesn't shift the gunk, I'll just wait until it eventually goes in for a service.

[Nigel_O]

Well that’s a bit weird….

I haven’t done anything to the watch (other than wearing it during the day). On Monday, I showed it to my youngest son (also a Sub owner) and the bezel moved freely, with the normal clicking sound.

Not complaining, just confused….