The Breitling Watch Source Forums

I just received a watch winder and was wondering if you guys could help me with the settings. My watch is the Bentley 6.75 and here are the settings for the watch (either clockwise or counter-cw). It is just an entry level winder, im not sure how it knows to repeat until "the watch is wound", but here are the modes. Which one should I use? THANKS!

1- Winding time is 33 seconds on then 12 minutes off, repeats until the watch is wound

2- Winding time is 33 seconds on then 15 minutes off, repeats until the watch is wound

3- Winding time is 33 seconds, then 18 minutes off, then 33 seconds in the opposite direction, then 18 min off, the repeats until the watch is wound

4- Winding time is 33 seconds then 24 minutes off, then repeats until the watch is wound


Got the watch winder for my Breitling and a Tissot Quadtrato for my bday to go along with my everyday watch collection

I'd probably go with #2

_________________

Just to be clear.....

Watch winders don't wind watches. They prevent watches from winding down.

In terms of what you should use, there's not enough information here to say - watches require a certain number of rotations a day to remain wound (details in the database at Orbita's website).

Posting the amount of time that it winds for isn't very meaningful without knowing how many rotations it makes in that period.

Does that make sense?

Yes that makes sense...im reading about it. So if this winder doesnt specify, should I not use it? Would it be bad for the watch?

No it won't be bad - the key is to have a rest period. You just have to make sure that it winds enough to keep the watch wound.

I personally am not a fan of this type of winder - I prefer ones that have much longer rest periods (and hence longer wind cycles) because that allows the mainspring to wind down more, but there's no reason not to use it.

Thanks guys...would it be worth it to get this one instead?
http://www.topperjewelers.com/watch_win ... _stackable

I think there are a few members with Wolf who may be able to comment.

My personal feeling is that if you don't have too many watches, just wind manually - I have winders now because of volume, but keep a lot of manual wind watches running all the time and it only takes me about 30 seconds per day per watch to wind them.