Daily manually winding an automatic 2500D damage it? (15 winds)

Have you fully wound it (50-60 winds) and then wore it in your daily activity? How long can you go before it runs down and stops? Modern watches in good shape are pretty efficient, maybe you don't really have an issue.

Aside from just putting some wear on the crown, stem, etc., I’m not sure how you could damage the movement. All manual winding accomplishes is to wind up the mainspring which is the same thing that the rotor accomplishes in response to the movement of your body. Whether wound manually or via the rotor, you can’t overwind an automatic watch because there is a slip clutch mechanism which prevents that from occurring.

Winding that watch 15 times a day will not damage it in any way.

Unless you are extraordinarily sedentary, there shouldn’t be any need to manually wind the watch each day.

Having said that, if the watch is new or recently serviced, and it is stopping on you, then winding it a little won’t hurt anything.

Cheers, Al

I’d only be winding it manually if your level of activity in a normal day was insufficient to keep it running.

Competent watchmakers can fix BROKEN watches. But they can’t fix watches that run down and stop because the owner isn’t active enough. Ten hours a day on the wrist of a person who doesn’t move much, and there will be times when it runs down. An analogy might be that you’ll drive twice as far on a full tank of gas than you will on half a tank.

I'm generally in the same boat as you and my watchmaker, doctor, and wife (3 separate people though wouldn't that be something if they were all 1 person) would say the same thing, I need to be more active.

I recently bought a standing desk (had one in the office for years) for my house now that I'm working from home and even a few hours standing at the desk or periodically raising/lowering it depending on what I'm working on makes a huge difference. Not only in how I generally feel but also in how much my watch winds. Even just standing at the desk and shifting my weight now and then I tend to move my arms around more and the rotor gets a few rotations.

My advice, if you're able, try and find a way to be more active. I totally get that there are plenty of people with health issues or other situations where that just isn't a realistic option but if it is for you that's going to be the best thing you can do. Outside of that, wind the watch when you notice it's not running, if you're tied to your desk like I am you probably aren't saving lives by having the most precise time on your watch 😀

I also picked up a cheap-ish watchwinder that has multiple settings for rotations per hour. A watch I wear frequently seems to do fine on the winder overnight running at about 25 rotations per hour.

Edit: Nice watch by the way

There's nothing wrong with the watch.