Pooling not only affects a watch's accuracy but also significantly shortens its service life.
Controlled watch winding restricts the flow of essential lubricants to all moving parts. In addition to eliminating the need for constant rewinding, winders prevent the "pooling of oil" inside the watch, after its internal mechanism is restarted. Watch winders are sophisticated electronic instruments that keep watches fully wound even when not worn on their owners' wrists. Like any other mechanical parts, over-stress could eventually shorten the useful life of the moving mechanism of a watch.Mars Eilux Metal Trim Maple Wood Double Watch Winder | 9-3/8 x 6-7/8 x 6-7/8 With this non-stop process, stress eventually build up. In layman's term, over-stress is a result of placing an automatic watch in a winder that winds the watch non-stop, without any rest period in between. In particular when you use a "watch-spinner" instead of a real electronic programmed automatic watch winder. But "over-stressing" should be considered when choosing a winder to wind up your watch. Thus, over-winding should not be a concern. Today's automatic watches are almost all manufactured with a mechanism that would dis-engage the winding mechanism once the mainspring is fully wind up. This explain why certain watches, left in a watch retail store for too long a time without winding, seems to perform not in its pristine condition even if it is a "brand new" watch.Ĭan a watch winder "over-wind" my watch ? The consequence would be that the mechanical life of the watch could be shortened and the performance of the watch being hampered. Resulting in increase friction and pressure caused to certain moving parts inside the watch. When a watch winds down and stops, the lubricating oil inside the watch will tend to settle and clot, and lose certain extent of its viscosity over an extended period of time.Īs such, the chance of certain moving parts not being properly lubricated when the watch runs again is much greater.
In addition to reducing wear and tear of the crown system as mentioned above, a properly designed watch winder can help distribute the lubricating oil inside the watch evenly most of the times. How can an automatic watch winder enhance the mechanical life of my automatic watch? If you have more than one watch, to wind up and to reset each will not only be time consuming and tedious, but frequently resetting and rewinding the watch could cause certain harm to the mechanism of the watches and could also hamper the long term mechanical life and functionality of the watch.
If you do not wear it for a few days, the watch will stop and you need to reset it and rewind it again.įor watches with complicate functions like moon phase or perpetual calendars, to reset and to rewind it could be quite a tedious task that most watch owners would like to avoid. Enhance mechanical life of the watches.Īn automatic watch usually has sufficient power reserve to run for only a couple to a few days, depends on the brands and the movement it uses. Provide convenience and time savings, and an ease of mind that your watch is ready to wear whenever you want, even if you do not wear the watch frequently Ģ Reduce an automatic watch's wear and tear, in particular to the crown winding mechanism ģ. In short, a watch winder serves 3 functions :ġ. A quartz watch does not need a watch winder. Watch winders are only useful if your watch is an "automatic" or "self-winding" watch watches like Rolex, Patek Philippe, Piaget, Tag Heuer, etc. A watch winder provides angular and/or circular motion that convert kinetic energy into stored micro electrical energy to keep the watch movement running. It also serves to keep the lubricating oil evenly and smoothly distributed even when you are not wearing your watch for a long period of time.
A winder keeps an automatic watch running and ready to wear any times. Watch winder is a device with an electric motor to automatically wind up your watch when you are not wearing it.
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