I just received a couple of Judge Chrono and I thought they were DOA. One of them I just had to push the stem in. The other, the stem was already pushed in. The buttons didn't work. I pulled the stem, set the time, pushed the stem back in and the chrono started spinning madly. Then stopped. I pushed the button and the chrono started working and the watch appears functional.
A lot of the watches at the local vault store have dead batteries. It's rather odd.
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