I recently purchased a Belocia Double Watch Winder. It has pre-set winding settings. I have an Omega Planet Ocean with the 9300 movement. On the bi-directional setting of the Watch Winder it will rotate Clockwise for 20 minutes then rest for 10 minutes then rotate Counter-Clockwise for 20 minutes then rest for 10 minutes. It repeats this cycle for as long as I have it on. I counted the rotations that took place for 1 minute and it came out to 6 rotations per minute. So for 1 hour the Winder rotates 240 times and for a full 24 hour day that comes to 5760 rotations. Is that too many TPD? I do not want to damage the movement of my Planet Ocean. Any advice would be great.

 

Dude if that winder damages your watch I can't imagine what a nice jog on the beach would do to it...

 

As long as you didn't buy a medical grade centrifuge to wind your watches, you should be fine.

 

Or a paint shaker

 

I just thought that, that many TPD would be excessive. Omega recommends a minimum of 720 RPD to keep it at minimum power reserve. So 8 times the minimum seemed a little high to me. Better to be safe than sorry.

 

Good to ask. You want your movement to run, run and run...sitting idle is the worst thing for a watch movement, as it allows for the possibility of the oils getting gunked up and causing issues with the movement.

This is the exact reason that I have bought 30-40 year old Rolex that were worn daily and never serviced and still kept amazing time, whereas I have bought watches that were nearly new, but spent their lives in a box, and kept terrible time because the oils were gunky or dried up.