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I’ve been a certified SCUBA diver for almost 25 years now. If you go diving, the DAN recommends at least 12 hours from water to air, and at least 24 hours if a safety stop is required while ascending.

I guess Don Draper isn’t a diver. 😂

I purchased the WD007 a few weeks ago and it arrived three days ago.  I’ve been busy, but I finally opened the box yesterday and started to set up the watch.  

First, the bad:

The first thing I noticed was that the watch had a few screws that looked like they had been screwed in or unscrewed by someone with the wrong tool (the heads looked a bit stripped).  I also noticed that the link connected to the quick adjustment pin also had a few scratches on it, as if it had moved around a bit when someone tried to re-size it.  They were minor, but they were there.  I decided to ignore these and just adjust the watch for my wrist, anyway.

After it was sized for my wrist, I proceeded to remove the plastic and protection from the watch head and set the time.  The crown is extremely gritty and hard to screw back in.  It’s not cross-threading (I always spin counter clockwise until it clicks, then clockwise to screw in), it’s just poorly machined. You can even hear it when you’re screwing the crown back in. It sounds almost like you’re winding the watch, but louder. I unscrewed the HEV and that was as smooth as butter, so I know they can do it right.

Also, the date wheel seems to be ever so slightly mis-aligned.

Now, the good:

The watch is extremely light.  It’s easy to forget you’re wearing it, to be honest.  The dial is beautiful, and the markers are clear and well applied.  I love that the watch is so thin and doesn’t have an exhibition caseback, as the steel glides on my skin better than glass.  The lume is also very powerful, which, along with the light titanium case, is exactly what I was looking for in a watch.

I plan on using the watch for travel, so I hope the crown just needs to be screwed/unscrewed a few times.  That said, it honestly hurt my index finger to screw and unscrew the crown 3 times, just to see if it would get better.  

So, as good as the watch is, I’m debating sending it back.  I’m concerned that the crown screw is defective.  I’ve never experienced a watch this loud and hard to wind, or that hurts my fingers when I screwed the crown back in.  What would you guys do?  Would you keep trying the crown and hope it loosens, or would you send it back?