Horological Meandering

What? nobody here uses a watch winder? I typed in that title on the "Forum Search" and received a message that there are no results!

I'm sure a few of you have purchased a winder for your perpetuals. I recently purchased a Scatola del Tempo model and have a question about your approach to properly determining the speed of rotation for which to program the machine for your watches.

Thank you for your help in this matter.

Ron

But perhaps Bernard can give you some advice?

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Andrew

Ps. I don't use winders, Ron, but hopefully you will get more helpful advice than I can give!

Classic.  I am not, sure but that may have sold me on the EWC as a great and robust watch, while influencing me to stay away from watch winders.

Best,

respo

http://www.orbita.net/pages/17100.htm

Should tell you all you need to know.

D in W

It's a windmill type that rotates the watches on two axes. A winder that rotates only one axis keeps the watch in the same plane at all times, concentrating the wear on the points on which the pivots rest in that plane. Through experimentation I have become convinced that single-plane winders at least reduce service intervals, if not actually causing damage.

been some discussion here in the past....

opinions are diverse....

Even ADs do not agree on them...

I find them useful for perpetual calendars....

Cheers

Hi

Just click on this link.

home.watchprosite.com

Good luck

Bill

Orbita Sparta 2 Delux.  But I don't keep it on all the time.  I have only two automatic watches and one of them has power reserve meter.  I stop both of the winders before one of them hits "full".  Then a day and a half or two later when PR meter is in the red zone, I switch both of them.  What is great about Sparta series is it doesn't hurry winding.  It "rotates and falls down" once in 10 or 15 minutes and it actually takes a day or so to wind my 5056P from red zone to almost full.  So, winder is good when you don't wear automatic watches, but don't do it too much.  Never all the time.

winders from quite a few brands and one thing I do notice, is that you don't want to go cheap, at least not too cheap.    I used to think it's really just a slow winding motors w/ a few electronics circuit boards, while it's mostly true, the quality of these components makes a huge difference.

On the top of my list I like Orbita & Scatola del Tempo.   They are very reliable and more importantly, quiet.   In my experience, the noisiness of your motors pretty much would give you a good idea of how long your winder would last.

I had back luck w/ winders from 'Official time' and Rapport.   My experience w/ Underwood is average.   

What I found really interesting is that one would imagine a vertically placed rotors such as Scatola & Underwood would wind most of the watch ok.  My experience is that some of my pieces would just REFUSE to wind on these winder while they're perfectly happy on the rotors placed at an angle such as Orbita.

Are you having problem programming your SDT winder?

 

here is a link to a previous post.

Hope this helps.

Aloha,

Bob

www.watchprosite.com

Thanks to everyone for your responses. All of the issues mentioned are helpful. I purchased the STD because it is programmable. I do get a little concerned about the wear and tear on the watches but consider the trade-off worthwhile for my perpetuals. Happy New Year to all.

Thanks to everyone for your responses. All of the issues mentioned are helpful. I purchased the Scatola Del Tempo because it is programmable. I am a little concerned about the wear and tear on the watches but consider the trade-off worthwhile for my perpetuals. Happy New Year to all.

I have had real good success with Orbita....I have a 6 programable watch winder that I bought a few years ago and have had real good success with it.  I liked it so much that I bought my wife two Orbital Sparta winders for two of her watches for Christmas!

Of course there offices are but a 3 hour drive from my house!

Looks beautiful, too.