Quartz fault.

[fjseal]

Hello all. If a quartz movement is devoid of any life, is it more likely to be a copper wire-wound coil or a defective electronic circuit? I have an ETA 251-262 that seems to have completely died.

Thanks in advance.

 

[HectorLooi]

Do you have a multimeter and a watch pulse tester?

The coil can be tested with a multimeter set to resistence measuring mode. A good coil should be in the range of 1K to 3K.

If the coil tests ok, then a pulse tester should be able to determine if the electronics are ok.

[JohnR725]

3 hours ago, fjseal said:

that seems to have completely died

Have you tried replacing the battery?

Then if this was your normal quartz watch damaging the coil would definitely be an issue but there is several coils in this watch so damaging one the rest should still function so something should be a working. Usually totally dead would be the battery or the circuit. But you really can't look at a quartz watch without proper test equipment or some test equipment.

Just in case you don't have the tech sheet I'm attaching that

372235670_289_ETA251.252251.262251.272.pdf