Correct Winding Method Cal 563

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Happy_Jake

·Mar 27, 2024

Please help me understand the correct method for manual winding of an Omega1168.028 with 563 movement.

What crown position? Which direction?

I have seen some conflicting information.

Thanks!

 

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Dan S

·Mar 27, 2024

Crown all the way in. Clockwise. Like pretty much every watch that winds manually. What conflicting information have you seen, it's hard to imagine anything else.

 

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Happy_Jake

·Mar 27, 2024

Thanks
Somewhere on the interwebs I saw crown all the way out. One direction sets time -- the other winds. That is obviously not the case. I am not so used to vintage watches and keep looking for crown position 1 for winding. I have never had a watch that winds with the tiny crown all the way in before

 

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JimInOz

·Mar 27, 2024·Melbourne Australia

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Somewhere on the interwebs I saw crown all the way out. One direction sets time -- the other winds. That is obviously not the case. I am not so used to vintage watches and keep looking for crown position 1 for winding. I have never had a watch that winds with the tiny crown all the way in before

It may come as a surprise to some, but not everything stated on the internet is correct, or even true.

Aside from screw-down or lock-down crowns, every mechanical watch I've owned (and there have been many, and I still have a hunred or so) wind with the crown at position 1 (depressed/against the case).

 

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Pvt-Public

·Mar 28, 2024

JimInOz

It may come as a surprise to some, but not everything stated on the internet is correct, or even true.

Say it isn’t so.

 

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Pvt-Public

·Mar 28, 2024

@Happy_Jake you Might want to take a look here
http://www.old-omegas.com/564.html