ROLEX AUTOMATIC WATCH WINDER PLUS

Most of us drive to work then sit at a computer for a large part of the day, so your wrist doesn’t have as much motion to effectively wind the mainspring as in years gone by. We’re far more sedentary these days than say 50 years ago. They are generally designed to be worn for 8-10 hours then put on a table overnight to be picked up and worn again in the morning. The reason are as follows.Ī modern automatic watch is built with modern usage in mind. But the more I learned the most hesitant I was about continuing use, eventually relegating it to the back of the cupboard. When I first started in the hobby I bought a cheap winder from Amazon and used it.

ROLEX AUTOMATIC WATCH WINDER PLUS

With more than 100 microscopic pieces, plus different types of lubrication for pivots, wheels and other components it’s basically a very small engine running at over 20,000 vibrations per hour, and these parts wear out and become less precise with use, not age. The problem is that watches are by nature a mechanical device with a finite lifetime for each part inside. So in theory, putting them on a winder is a great idea. If you have a number of different watches in rotation or don’t move around a lot during the day then you can find that these watches don’t have enough rotational movement to stay wound by themselves. They are a device created to simulate the daily wear and use of an automatic, mechanical watch.

Rolex automatic watch winder