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The perfect small crown winder?

  1. pitpro Likes the game. Apr 3, 2015

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    good golly Molly
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  2. ulackfocus Apr 3, 2015

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    I should send you my Eterna 1466U to see if you have anything that will work on THAT puny crown.
     
  3. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Apr 3, 2015

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    Come in all sizes.
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  4. rhetoric Apr 3, 2015

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  5. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Apr 3, 2015

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    I used to use rubberbands, but the tubing ma work better.
     
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  6. DocHolliday Apr 3, 2015

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    Brilliant!
     
  7. Archer Omega Qualified Watchmaker Apr 4, 2015

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    Or you can just get a watch crown winder...I use mine often on smaller crowns and those incredibly awful crowns that many here like as shown by the OP...

    It helps save the fingers for sure.
     
  8. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Apr 4, 2015

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    What model do you use? I've got no fingernails at all either so I can't even get these crowns out without using something like a thin edge of a credit card
     
  9. Archer Omega Qualified Watchmaker Apr 4, 2015

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    Mine is a Bergeon 30409A. But you can get them in much cheaper versions than this one is, so just look at the sizes of the crowns you need to use it on, and select the one with the range that fits. I use mine almost every day.

    Cheers, Al
     
  10. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Apr 4, 2015

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    Thank god there is someone else :thumbsup:
     
  11. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Apr 4, 2015

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    You're a credit card pry-er too?
     
  12. STANDY schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collector Apr 4, 2015

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    And now proud to be....
     
  13. noelekal Home For Wayward Watches Apr 4, 2015

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    Great thread for ideas for dealing with those 1950s Constellation crowns!
     
  14. Canuck Apr 4, 2015

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    Here's a watch winder for you. Made by Bergeon. The arbor telescopes. The crown is placed in the rubber cup and pushed toward the motor. Takes about 5 seconds to wind a watch from totally run down. The arbor has a calibrated clutch which slips when the watch is fully wound. Works better on wrist watches than pocket watches. The watch is an odd one. It is from the 1950s. It was commonly peddled on shopping centre parking lots or in dimly lit bars. The name on the dial? HORMILTON! That is not a mis-spelling, by the way. Anyone else on this forum old enough to remember these? image.jpg The movement is pin lever, one jewel.
     
  15. MikiJ Likes songs about Purple spices Apr 5, 2015

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    No wonder you can afford such a wonderful collection ;) I would have expected nothing less or more - Great idea!
     
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  16. Canuck Apr 5, 2015

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    Actually, a friend's grandfather was a watchmaker in Saskatchewan. He passed away about 50 years ago. This Bergeon winder is from his shop, and I acquired it by a barter arrangement. My friend needed a watch repaired, and the winder was his payment. Back in the 1950s, while manual winders predominated in the pockets and on the wrists of watch owners, and battery watches were just beginning to appear, an old time watchmaker would have made great use out of this winder! As to my collection? Did you notice the fake Hamilton I included in the image of the winder? As with any collection, mine covers the spectrum from the ordinary, to the somewhat less ordinary.