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Dear friends, one question I often have in my mind is: how do you set your watches? Many of you have several watches, some of them you'll wear frequently, others will be on your wrists for special occasions. Do you keep all your watches on winders? Do you have your rituals to wind them every morning
It's a Rolex reference 1018, and I can just put it on whenever I wish. It is outrageously accurate, but I reset it every few months (or at least when there is a switch to or from Daylight Savings). The other watches stop between wearings, so I set them when I wear them. I match minutes to seconds hand and set them to a time reference on my computer. For those that do not hack, I set them a fraction of a minute ahead.
Something I noticed over time though is that this appears to be done automatically by Patek watches (they catch up at most after a minute o two), while personally I have never noticed this, e.g., in a Rolex. That is, either I manually set up the two hands consistently or they'll remain out of sync. I believe I never asked Patek or a watchmaker, but it's hardly a coincidence that this seems to always happen with a Patek, consistently with their quality and level of attention to the smallest detai
Most f my watches are automatic and I keep them in a watch winder The manual ones I keep in a safe and wind them once a month regardless if I wear them or not Hope this helps
. . . for using time.gov as a reference when setting. Which reminds me, it's time to revolve a few back to the safe and take a few out. Art
I usually have 3-5 watches readily accessible in a drawer that get rotated over a week or two then that group gets changed out or "evolves". I no longer use winders as I feel they just hurry up the day the piece will need servicing. Relating to a car engine, its not good for one to never be run but it would seem that if you let it continuously idle (and only occasionally drove it) it would probably need service sooner. I don't even keep my perpetual on a winder but its a Ludwig and is very easy
I use a clock that is "Radio Wave Controlled / Auto Tuning". Since the clock syncs with the radio signal every hour it's close enough for me. I let my watches run down between using. To set a watch that has stopped I do the following: 01) Wind the watch 50 times (automatic or hand wind watches) 02) Set the watch to 6:00 AM 03) Advance the calendar to yesterday's date (using quick date set) 04) Stop the time with the seconds hand at 12 (hack at 12) 05) Manually advance the date/time to the date,
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