Jaeger-LeCoultre

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seems fair...

that the watch will last long(er) if it works every now and then instead of standing still for years. lubricants will lubricate what need be and things will be fine.
servicing every 3y seems a bit much especially if the watch does not run very often. the basic servicing of the watch consists of unmounting it completely, removing old lubricant and putting  the watch back together using fresh lubricant to lubricate where required.
the improvement in the quality of lubricant used in modern watches is such that a 5y servicing is probably good in most cases for modern watches. Now, if you have many watches and they "rotate" on your wrist, it is likely that the servicing can possibly stretch further.

One thing to pay attention to, is the fact that one can easily run a watch for a long time withtout servicing and the pivots and other parts may start to wear out without the owner to notice much until the damage is big and the repair costly. Prevention is better than cure ...

the winding machine is, to me, expensive for what it does and could be justified only for perpetual calendars with moonphase, otherwise, resetting the calendar and the moon phase to the right date must be a bit of a chinese puzzle (but probably good fun).

now to comment on the pleasure of winding, I have to say that this is almost a "religious" moment when I wind on the first day of the week my reverso grande reserve, to be ready for a brand new week. I love this moment.