Seiko Kinetic Auto Relay

[driverrob]

Anyone else got one?
14 months after a complete service it's showing the same symptoms again of a flat battery.
So I phone Seiko and was told I need to wear it, say, 8 days out of 10 to keep it topped up and that a conventional watch winder just won't do the job.
Assuming that's all true, why the hell didn't it say that in the user manual? (Or maybe it did but I lost it years ago).

[driverrob]

Browsing this forum, I read that I'm not the only owner for whom a 'normal' rotary, 1 hr on and 3hr off just doesn't do the job.
The Seiko rep. and the instruction manual (yes, I've found it) say winding/waking the watch requires a swinging, side-to-side movement. Easily done if it's on your wrist.

So I've built this:

I'll report back.




To save everyone else: ..

[LukeBird]

Love it!

[troc]

Hmm, now I want to go home and break out the lego mindstorms to see what I can come up with.

[Ikemi]

Excellent!

[driverrob]

Well, it worked (i.e. it swung my watch pretty much as prescribed in the manual) but it didn't work (i.e. it didn't wake or wind the watch up).

So it's back into the loft for all my son's old Lego and back on my wrist with the watch.

[troc]

No, you are doing it wrong - It's down to the shops for MORE lego.

[Laser Sag]

Just as a possible for you to try a couple of my autos didnt work in the winder I have with it operating in a clockwise direction but they do if it is reversed. These are on the cheaper autos, which obviously not suggesting the Seiko is, but might be worth a try.

[driverrob]

Laser Sag said:

Just as a possible for you to try a couple of my autos didnt work in the winder I have with it operating in a clockwise direction but they do if it is reversed. These are on the cheaper autos, which obviously not suggesting the Seiko is, but might be worth a try.

Thanks, but I'd already tried it with both directions. It seems Seiko's advice is accurate.
So, either I wear it most of the time or I accept having to set the time each occasion I do wear it.
Since I spend a lot of time sitting in front of a PC and nearly every room in the house has a clock, and any car I drive has a clock I suspect it'll be the latter option.