Personally, I like to keep my watches wound

and also it allows me to check on their daily accuracy. For many, the accuracy of their watches is not so important but for me it is. In addition, I believe one of the most pleasurable thing about watch collecting is actually winding them. The smoothness of the winding mechanism is a pleasure hard to describe. In fact, I have sold watches in the past if the winding mechanism is not smooth. Another reason for winding my watches daily is to ensure that whenever I decide to wear a watch, the date and time is set correctly. For my watches like my 7234A travel time or the 5212A weekely calendar, this is actually quite important. I have been winding my watches daily for decades now but I must confess that it does help that I do not have too many watches!

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Manual winding the Patek automatic movements?

By: icecube4000 : April 10th, 2020-18:13

Has someone experienced automatic movements in Nautilus or Aquanaut watches breaking down as a result of manual winding? The manual winding mechanism feels very fragile and I was wondering whether manually winding the crown 25-30 times each time to start ...

I don't think so. I normally wind my automatic watches manually for 10-15 times just to give initial start and then wear them. Nothing has gone wrong.

By: Pun : April 10th, 2020-19:38

It has butter smooth winding that doesn't mean it's fragile.

Been doing it for many years: no issues.

By: vitalsigns : April 10th, 2020-19:46

But I do only wind until the watch starts, then let the automatic rotor take over. I have heard that some automatic movements have less robust manual winding mechanisms. Not sure if this applies to any Patek movements, but my sense is that it’s not an iss...