Hacking second on panerai Pam 514

[dexson]

Dear MWF,

After every point consideration I finally laid my funds on the PAM 514. Tried to sync the watch after I got home but found out that the second hand continues to move when I set the time (ie moving the minute hand).

Any sifu here have experience on hacking the second hand to sync the watch? I notice that the second hand do stop a little while when back-rotate the minute hand, but it certainly hard to control.

If hacking is not possible in this movement, any idea on how can I sync the watch? (can't find a way to sync it down to the second)

Is this normal? The movement here - P 3000. 

[megaronnt88]

Hi.. This is supposed to reset to '0' when you pull out the crown to the minute level i.e. 2nd click. At least it does so on my 3002 movement and I believe my 3000 movement previously on my 504.

[D'Andy]

I stand to be corrected, but I believe the P3000 offers jumping hour set that can be done without hacking the movement, a very handy feature for changing time zones without interrupting time-keeping. To keep the second in sync to atomic time, you would have to back-hack; which you have kind of stumbled upon but still needed some practice. It's a pretty reliable and robust movement with 21,600 vph, so you could play around with it until you got the hang of it. After all, that's what the warranty is for 

[dexson]

I stand to be corrected, but I believe the P3000 offers jumping hour set that can be done without hacking the movement, a very handy feature for changing time zones without interrupting time-keeping. To keep the second in sync to atomic time, you would have to back-hack; which you have kind of stumbled upon but still needed some practice. It's a pretty reliable and robust movement with 21,600 vph, so you could play around with it until you got the hang of it. After all, that's what the warranty is for 

This is so frustrating ! Have been trying to sync it down to the second for the past 45mins but failed. Sometimes the back winding hack does the trick to stop the second hand but most of the time the second hand still runs regardless of back winding the minute hand. Now, no matter what I do the second hand still runs strongly forward 

[Timeless]

Second hand will remain running while u pulling the crown to second position.

[Cocas]

Dear MWF,

After every point consideration I finally laid my funds on the PAM 514. Tried to sync the watch after I got home but found out that the second hand continues to move when I set the time (ie moving the minute hand).

Any sifu here have experience on hacking the second hand to sync the watch? I notice that the second hand do stop a little while when back-rotate the minute hand, but it certainly hard to control.

If hacking is not possible in this movement, any idea on how can I sync the watch? (can't find a way to sync it down to the second)

Is this normal? The movement here - P 3000.

If second hand cannot hack, my way is to let the watch to stop totally. Then before you revive it, you just ensure you synchronize the second hand with atomic time. It should work.