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How often do you wind your manuals?

  1. DG GW Dec 12, 2014

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    With over 30 it is getting to be quite the chore. Do you think once a month is enough?
     
  2. peatnick Dec 12, 2014

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    hope so cause mine don't all get that, in fact your post just reminded me to wind a few . . .
     
  3. oddboy Zero to Grail+2998 In Six Months Dec 12, 2014

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  4. JohnSteed Dec 12, 2014

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    Wind only before wearing
     
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  5. ulackfocus Dec 12, 2014

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    Bingo. There's nothing bad about letting a watch sit unused for a month or three.
     
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  6. X350 XJR Vintage Omega Aficionado Dec 12, 2014

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    That's my vote as well.
     
  7. CdnWatchDoc Dec 12, 2014

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    +2 here...and a watch winder that works on manuals? Next they will have robotic collets that can set the time....!
     
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  8. JimInOz Melbourne Australia Dec 12, 2014

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    And me.

    Pick one out, wind it, set time (+ or - 1 minute, who cares), put it on.
     
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  9. repoman Dec 12, 2014

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    +5 or whatever we're up to now, what JohnSteed said.

    I find winders annoying ever since the one I was given as a thank you was non-functional. :thumbsdown:
     
  10. Stewart H Honorary NJ Resident Dec 13, 2014

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    Me too.
     
  11. jud Dec 13, 2014

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    The only automatics I keep on a winder are the my Orients because they are my least expensive. Someone else's example: leaving a watch on a winder is like leaving a car running in the garage overnight.
     
  12. DLT222 Double D @ ΩF Staff Member Dec 13, 2014

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    Wind when I wear and they all sit in watch rolls inc the autos.

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    Watch roll is from WOLF and from the Blake collection
     
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  13. JohnSteed Dec 13, 2014

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    :eek:
     
  14. dougiedude Carpe horologium! Dec 13, 2014

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    I only wind before wearing (have an equally large collection), and all seems good...

    I found my very 'first' watch' (as far as I can remember), a '67 hand-wind, deep in a box a few months ago. It had been unwound for at least 25, maybe 45 years.

    I wound it, and it actually ran pretty well!

    That was before I realized it's probably not a good idea to allow an unserviced watch to run (kinda like starting a car before checking the oil level!).
    Photo Dec 13, 10 28 18 AM.jpg
     
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  15. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Dec 13, 2014

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    Pick watch out, set time, swap watch. So two get a turn sometimes.
     
  16. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Dec 13, 2014

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    I wind most often when in a meeting with a boring individual or having to sit through something tedious. Satisfies my compulsion to fiddle with something without pulling a pen apart and losing the parts.
     
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  17. DLT222 Double D @ ΩF Staff Member Dec 13, 2014

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    you missed off having to ask for another pen because it no longer works due to the lost spring in the top!
     
  18. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Dec 13, 2014

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    Tell you something funny, the former office secretary once got very upset at OfficeWorks on the phone because she said every time she buys a stapler from them within two weeks the staples are stamping with their ends outwards instead of inwards and demanding a refund. I didn't realise she'd bought about 15 of them because I'd kept fiddling with the directional die on the end of the staplers when I was bored.
     
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  19. DLT222 Double D @ ΩF Staff Member Dec 13, 2014

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    Was she blond?
     
  20. alam Dec 13, 2014

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    I'm willing to help you with this chore, let me borrow a couple of these and I'll keep them running. :D