Thread: Alpha pseudo problem ( Carbon )

Thanks watch-art! What should it feel like when it is properly tightened? Anything else I should beaware of when doing this fix? And yes I\'m more at home fitting turbochargers to race engines that tweeking those iddy bitty watch gears :) Thanks again for your help

yes. it wasn\'t tightened enough in factory. just take the back off and carefully tighten it down. but it\'s not a cylinder head on a smallblock bolt. tight on a watch isn\'t the same as tight in an engine. good luck. fix this and you should be very happy.

Here\'s my take on it: Maybe the movt screws are a lil loose which then results to loose movt in the case. Sometimes a person wouldnt notice it until a lil shaking of the movt or it couldve been a foreign object enlarged between the rotor and movt. Remember im only guessing. Here\'s something you can try if its not a screw down crown, grab the crown and see if the movt move a lil around in the case or shake it a lil while looking to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tywrap My friend brought in his case tool to work and I opened the Carbon up this morning. Tighten the screw holding the weight just barely until it stopped ( per Watch-Art\'s directions). put the case back together. No more weird noise, no more tilted weight!!! Wooohooooo :) I\'m going to monitor the screw orientation after wearing the watch for a full day and make sure it doesn\'t back out any...