Chronometer (aka yacomino)
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I love the ritual! Every day I actually look forward setting up my watch before my first conference call, winding it, setting the time une less I wore that watch the day before!
Apr 16, 2021,15:23 PM
Thanks for sharing your ritual nacelle!
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How often do you wind your manual watches when not used (if at all)?
By: Chronometer (aka yacomino) : April 15th, 2021-10:53
In the past with most of my collection made-up of self-winding watches, I was using a watch winder for storing them when I was not wearing them. Now I find myself with almost exclusively manual winding watches in the collection. Should I wind the ones I a...
Hi I have a bit of both in my collection
By: Watch_kha_wen : April 15th, 2021-11:12
And I used to manually wind them once a month at the beginning haha Now I just stopped by laziness and wind them like once every couple of month. I will see what others recommend I may need to start winding them again more often. So far I have not noticed...
Watch winders
By: KonaJ : April 15th, 2021-12:23
I bought a few watch winders that will wind manual winding watches, used them for manual winding perpetual calendar watches. I now wonder if keeping them on a winder might do more harm than good over a longer period of time? In any case I stopped using th...
Not at all. Unless I’m trying to monitor their timekeeping.
By: Jay (Eire) : April 15th, 2021-12:29
Generally it’s wind it if I’m wearing it. From time to time I will run (wind) a watch for several weeks as I want to measure its timekeeping or day to day variance. In those cases I tend to wind once a day and at the same time each day.
I wind them once a month
By: rnaden : April 15th, 2021-19:12
Whether manual or automatic, I was advised by a watchmaker friend to have them run at least once a month just to get the oils flowing. I guess it also depends on the conditions of storage. It’s quite humid here where I live, so maybe in such conditions, a...
It's a morning ritual for me.
By: fuigo : April 15th, 2021-19:40
After the kids are off to school, I wind every watch in the collection. I also make sure the time are adjusted as needed.
Glad to know that you enjoy it...
By: fuigo : April 16th, 2021-06:32
My wife on the other hand still doesn’t understand why I do this... After years of marriage. Hahahaha
Good topic my friend..
By: Seeks : April 16th, 2021-04:40
And I enjoy reading all the replies. For me, I try to wind every month and if not at least every quarter. And I try to change their resting positions. Best regards
Great topic!
By: MTR : April 16th, 2021-09:54
I wind my manual watches at least one time a month when I don‘t wear them. I have just one perpetual calendar with an automatic movement that I keep running on a winder. What I would be very interested in - and nobody could answer it so far - if winding a...
Since most manual wind watches do not have constant-force mechanism
By: chintu : April 17th, 2021-19:13
I recall Philippe Dufour mentioning in an interview that he winds his Datograph twice a day. It makes sense to not let the power reserve go lower than the half-way point as the chronometric performance will degrade due to the lower torque in all watches e...
Thanks for the welcome Chronometer & Abanico! With regards to oils ...
By: Zilch : April 20th, 2021-08:53
... I'm a bit paranoid not at last I'm mainly a chronometer fan (precision/accuracy) ... you just never know what kind of oils are used and how when you get a watch serviced, especially when it's not done by the manufacturer or a licensed service point - ...
It used to be every month.
By: amg786w : April 20th, 2021-11:30
I now find myself doing it every 6-8 weeks through laziness or forgetfulness. I think its around 90+ turns on my PAM 564, the thought of so many puts me off at times!
hahaha..
By: amg786w : April 21st, 2021-11:49
in a bid to minimise the turns, i've succumbed to only winding thus utilising only 4 days of power reserve from the p.5000 movement!