Keep it wound, or let it wind down?
I fully wind my 113 every morning (and sometimes during the day, too). Are there any advantages (or disadvantages) to allowing a mechanical-wind PAM to wind down completely? D-Rock
Well, you will have your watch working with
More regularity if you wind it each day at approximatively the same hour.. But there is no problem if you let your pam wind down completley. It won't break for that. Best. Nicolas
Actually there is theory that if you wind it up to max at a definitive time
it would actually shorten the service interval. For example, 42hr power reserve but you wind it to the fullest everyday on the dot at 9am. In theory if the main spring/barrel are being wound up every time roughly 24hrs later, then there can be memory effe...
What is memory effect??
Hi Jester, please be kind enough to explain more. I wound my 8 days, every day since i had it (aprox 5 months) and then I just decided to let it run down to 1 day. I wound it full and then, it started to loose about 20 mins a day! I just got it back from ...
imagine the watch to be wound up every day at 9am
and let's assume the total power reserve of say 48 hrs (For ease of calculation!) The mainspring will slowly unwound from 9am till the next morning at 9am, which by then the half the coil will be unwound while the remaining half of the coil would still be...