S3 Frontier bezel is now harder to turn..

[lv2bsilly]

I've searched the forum but didn't see anyone having an issue with the bezel becoming stiff. Mine was smooth when I got it 2 weeks ago, but it became harder to turn starting yesterday, I tried rinsing/washing the watch, but it is still stiff. I noticed that this black stuff was coming out from under the watch, searching a XDA I guess it's the teflon ring/seal under the rotating bezel.

Does anyone know if this is a defect and if that teflon seal is not whole, will it affect the water resistance to my watch?

 

[11B1P]

Let's see. I've had my S3 for about...a month, maybe. My bezel is turning just fine. I don't have anything coming out from under mine. If I were you, I'd be contacting Samsung asap.

 

[afblangley]

I've had mine for 7 months and there have been a several (~4-5) occasions when the bezel became unexplicably hard to turn. I turned it off, soaked it in a bowl of lukewarm water for a couple of minutes. Removed it, dried it off, then rotated the bezel a few dozen times in each direction. Then finally, turned it back on. Sometimes I only did the last step: turn it off and manually rotated bezel multiple times.

I've not seen any apparent degradation with age so far, but I have an extended warranty, so I'm not worried about it.