Confusion/Trouble about fully winding my Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch

Dear other enthusiasts,

yesterday I received my first luxury watch, after buying into the field of mechanical watches with a Tissot Ballade Powermatic 80 (COSC) roughly 3 years ago. I was a long-time admirer for Omega watches and had highly trouble selecting my first one.

However, it got to be the Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch (Hesalite) with Ref. 310.32.42.50.01.001 (new 2021 version with the 3861 calibre).

Now my trouble: It is my first mechanically wound watch. I commonly wind my Tissot as well from time to time, but i guess its not comparable. I now realize I shouldn't have done the purchase of such a watch via the Omega e-Boutique, but let me have it introduce it to me by someone experienced.

From the first start it was quite easy to wind the watch, until the counter torque of winding slowly rose.
I stopped at a point were I felt that its now a significant counter torque / resistance. However it still let me wind further with hearing clicks. At this point I feel a quite significant torque from the spring when trying to wind one step further, and the crown winds back when I do not apply enough torque. I never felt an aprupt high rise / or "end-stop" feeling in the counter torque.

Since my backstory, I am a bit anxious of damaging something. On the other side, I read a lot about the high resistance from some Speedmaster calibres when being wound.

Now my question: From what I described - Did I wound it fully? Can anyone describe the experience of winding his/hers calibre 3861 a bit more thouroughly?
Should there be a real aprupt resitance?

Kind regards,
Sebastian

It is a very obvious stop when it's fully wound, no slight resistance

Welcome to the forum . Yes very obvious when it’s fully wound. Some other threads on this topic. Do a quick search and you’ll get some good info . Good luck

If you’re not sure if it’s fully wound and don’t want to risk forcing it, just stop at the point you’ve described and see how long it runs for before it stops.
If you’re getting close to (or more than) the quoted power reserve time, you know that what you are feeling is right for a full wind.

As others others stated, just continue winding until it stops and you can't wind it anymore. Do this once daily. You won't do any harm with your bare fingers.

My everyday Omegas have been manual winders, I have always wound them in the morning before I put them on.

Autowind watches don't have the end of the main spring fixed to the barrel. This allows the spring to slip as the rotor continues to move, even when the spring is fully wound. Manual wind watches have the end connected to the barrel, which is why you feel a hard stop. On an autowind, the end of the spring just starts to slip if you try to over wind it.

Is that Murphy's law? 'Wind fully, open the back, lift the click and back off one turn.'

Based on my calculations, about 40% of this forum is about when to stop winding a speedmaster

When I got my 3861--my first Speedmaster--I was a little hesitant about winding it, fit fear of breaking it. My only other manual watch is a Serica, which uses a modified automatic movement, so there isn't a hard stop at the end.

From my experience, the resistance in the Speedmaster increased noticably as I got closer to fully wound. For the first week or so, I stopped at that point, thinking that was the significant increase in resistance that I had read about. But I was really only at about 75-80% wound at that point. There is a very clear stop at the end, and I imagine you'd have to crank on it pretty hard to move it past that point. I also notice that the frequency of the clicking noise changes the last 0.5-1 turn, and that signals the stop is coming.