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 Post subject: Watch winding question
PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:53 am 
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I've got brain fade...
Is it possible to keep three '40' hour reserve watches wound with a single winder that takes two hours to wind a watch, and I would wear each of the three watches in three-daily rotation, without having to spend six hours a night winding all three ?
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Well if Dick and Jane.... I mean you would not mind rotating them on the winder then yeah its possible to keep them all wound. Might as well forget the winder and just manualy wind them in that case.

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Regarding the myriad of advice / comments I've read over the last months about manually winding automatic watches, I guess manually winding a watch every second day or so wont do any harm will it.
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Not an expertm but for what its worth I seriosely dought manualy winding a watch would harm it. My grandfather had a manual wind Omega that he used every day for 35 days. Serviced only once too......

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ewen wrote:
Regarding the myriad of advice / comments I've read over the last months about manually winding automatic watches, I guess manually winding a watch every second day or so wont do any harm will it.


Manually winding an automatic watch won't harm it at all. Your biggest risk is wearing the threads on a screw-down crown if the watch is so equipped, but really this is sort of a stretch IMO. There is also no issue with just allowing the watch to wind down, doesn't hurt them at all. When you do hand wind, make sure you wind 30-40 times for a full wind and don't worry about over-winding, all modern watches have a clutch mechanism to prevent damage.
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I did not know there was a clutch mechanism that would prevent overwinding!! Good to know, thanks for the info.

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jhowton wrote:
...and don't worry about over-winding, all modern watches have a clutch mechanism to prevent damage.

All automatic watches have the clutch mechanism, manual winding mechanical watches don't...
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Thats strange, seems like it would be more important on manual winding watches since you would be doing alot more manual winding. Or is the manual and auto winding mechanism interwined? That would be more logical since you would not be able to limit the auto winding on a watch wheras a manual wind could be more easly controled.

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I think it's more reasonable to have a clutch mechanism in an automatic watch as there is no way to know when the mechanism is fully wound. In a manual, it's fairly safe to assume you stop winding when you can't turn the winding crown any more...

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Very true. For the manual watches I have, I just simply wind them as much as possible. Never had a problem...

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Watchmakeress wrote:
jhowton wrote:
...and don't worry about over-winding, all modern watches have a clutch mechanism to prevent damage.

All automatic watches have the clutch mechanism, manual winding mechanical watches don't...


Oops, yes that's correct.
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Many thanks for the replies and advice, I'll sleep easy now.
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