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Thanks for sharing your opinions, PC.I have more than one watch (I'm sure you do too). My work takes me out of the country like 50% of the time and hence winding my watches every morning is out of the question. Very often, I leave certain watches unworn for as long as 6 months. I'm just wondering if prolonged "inactivity" is bad for watches.  Is this a fallacy?

Also, I find it a pain to set the watch when there's more than one complication.

However, I've also read somewhere in this forum that it's actually not good to keep a watch perpetually wound, i.e. in a watch winder. The reasoning is that it would wear out the parts.

Sorry, I'm a complete noob when it comes to mechanism etc.

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Buben & Zorweg Watch Winders

 
By: ianny : September 13th, 2008-12:02
Does anyone here have any experience using them? And what about Orbita winders? Actually, should i use a winder at all? Please advise. Thanks.

PC

 
By: autowind : September 14th, 2008-05:47
In my opinion, the only reason to use a winder is for a perpetual calendar that you are wearing but not wearing enough to keep it fully wound. These are difficult and time consuming to set so a winder is useful if, for example, you wear the watch during t...