Horological Meandering

I currently have two automatic watches and every morning I use to wind both of them: just a few turns of the crown for the watch I want to wear all day long while I make the other one fully wound.
It's many years I got this practice and "feeding" my watches became pure delight, but I'm not so sure they appreciate too. Both the user's guides don't tell anithing about this, so I'm asking you: daily and long term manually wind could cause mechanical damages to automatic watches?
Thank you!

As you can't  "overwind " a modern automatic watch.

Best,

Nicolas

While most automatic watches can be manually wound, my understanding is that their manual winding mechanisms generally are less robust than the winding mechanisms of non-automatic watches. Also, one of the main reasons to own an automatic watch is that daily winding causes wear to the crown gasket, potentially compromising water resistance. It's probably not a big deal, but there certainly is at least some argument against regularly manually winding an automatic.

I did not know that....

Cheers

and the winder is already occupied.

... since I wear my watches in rotation and don't think keeping automatics on the winder all the time causes less wear then manually winding them a bit when I take them out of the box every week or two. I am now keeping two watches on the winder which are too cumbersome to set (and in general prefer manual winds without date now).

 

Andreas

I have an Omega Seamaster Pro chronometer with the ETA2892A2/Omega 1120 movement, and I wind it up manually once a week or whenever it needs adjusting or date adjusted, but it's very accurate and I wear it everyday, so it doesn't need to be manually wound too much.  I do like the 'smooth as butter' manual winding, almost addictive, but refrain in favor of the bi-directionally winding rotor to do it's thing daily, and you can't overwind it anyway.  All watches wear down eventually, even quartz, so take it easy on the winding.  Whatever.  Enjoy!

=:^D

I manually wind whatever watch I'm wearing in the morning even if it's an automatic.  It has become a morning ritual for me.

If it's introduces more wear and tear to the watch, I really don't care because I get enjoyment manually winding it.

- AT

...when I am wearing them. There are some automatics that I just can't seem to keep wound in normal life. The result is after a couple of days they begin to run erratically and by Thursday morning they stop. Usually I try to move on from these watches but there are several which I just like too much to sell. These I wind manually every night.

Here, for example, are two which I like too much to sell, but which have inefficient winding systems for someone with my habits and lifestyle:

I used to but got lazy. The watches I have that need to be running, i.e. those with a date, so that I don't have to keep setting the dates when it stops, I keep on a winder. For those that are time only, I wind when I want to wear them. I haven't noticed any difference in performance of the watches whether or not I wound them daily in the past vs winding when needed today.

Richard

... shaking them in a circular motion... I do that when I'm not going to wear the automatic watch for a few days.