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Keep manual-wind wound or let it stop?
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·Exactly. I work from home 100% of the time, so I always wear my watches...
More than once during the pandemic I’ve worn the VC with shorts and a t-shirt and ventured no farther than my basement “office.” But I also understand the desire to maintain the specialness of a watch like that by wearing it only occasionally.
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·Congrats on the VC! Pardon me crashing the party, but I also got my very first manual-wind gold dress watch recently 😀 I was deciding between 2 choices: the VC 4400 traditionnelle, and the A Lange & Sohne Saxonia. I ended up with this:
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·Curiously, I found this in the instruction manual:
In 4+ years of Speedmaster ownership, I've never bothered to "turn the crown back about one revolution. This relaxes the strain on the winding mechanism when the mainspring is fully wound".
Is that a best practice that applies for Omega 186x, 3861, movements as well? Oops... totally neglected that if it was.
Does the instruction manual for the Vacheron Constantine 4400 say anything about rewinding the crown back, once it's fully wound?
In 4+ years of Speedmaster ownership, I've never bothered to "turn the crown back about one revolution. This relaxes the strain on the winding mechanism when the mainspring is fully wound".
Is that a best practice that applies for Omega 186x, 3861, movements as well? Oops... totally neglected that if it was.
Does the instruction manual for the Vacheron Constantine 4400 say anything about rewinding the crown back, once it's fully wound?
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·Gorgeous piece---I considered ALS as well, along with PP. In the end I just preferred the proportions and the slightly-more-visible movement of the VC. (ALS are next-level when it comes to finishing, but there's a lot of plate. I freely admit that this is a very stupid thing to fixate on when making such a decision.)
As for the back-turn, I don't recall seeing anything about that in the VC manual (which is tucked away now), but I've absolutely encountered that exact same advice on VC-related forum posts specifically re: the 4400 movement.
It takes an insane number of turns to fully charge the 4400. Like enough that you become convinced something is broken, but you keep going and then finally after several minutes you hit the hard stop.
As for the back-turn, I don't recall seeing anything about that in the VC manual (which is tucked away now), but I've absolutely encountered that exact same advice on VC-related forum posts specifically re: the 4400 movement.
It takes an insane number of turns to fully charge the 4400. Like enough that you become convinced something is broken, but you keep going and then finally after several minutes you hit the hard stop.
