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What's the allure to having to wind a $20k watch?

03Hemi
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Okay, I get that, thanks for the replies. I guess I should have kept all my manual winders and sold them here? lol
Most of my discretionary money for play go into my firearms collection and there's a very "visceral" feeling you get when you completely take a gun apart, feel the precision of engineering when you reassemble it again, the exact tolerances of parts inter-fitting together, so I get it. I still have a couple of manual winders, now I just have a new appreciation for them. Thank you.
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03Hemi 03Hemi
Okay, I get that, thanks for the replies. I guess I should have kept all my manual winders and sold them here? lol
Most of my discretionary money for play go into my firearms collection and there's a very "visceral" feeling you get when you completely take a gun apart, feel the precision of engineering when you reassemble it again, the exact tolerances of parts inter-fitting together, so I get it. I still have a couple of manual winders, now I just have a new appreciation for them. Thank you.

Are your guns all automatics ? 😉
 
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$20.00 or $20,000.00 it doesn't much matter to me. The idea that I pass/exert a little energy into a spring and that energy stays with me and gives me aid for an extended period of time is a source of joy and amazement. A marvel of mechanical engineering.
 
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I normally don’t even give a second thought to winding my watch in the morning (automatics I wind too as they get rotated and sit for stretches of time). Same as I don’t think about lacing my shoes or shaving. That said, my 9/12 “quick” set watches do give me a little pause for thought when I have to set those the day after the date displayed....as does my brush and cup shaving routine at 4am when I need to be out of the house by 5, or having to lace 10 hole boots at the same time of the morning before coffee.
I guess it’s all about- what is your threshold for the small steps in life that make up the greater routine.
 
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I like manual winding watches. I recall reading that manual wind watches need you. Well ... I need them too.

I'm the same way about the firearms collection. Yeah, while I've got semi-automatic everything bolt-action, lever-action, slide-action rifles and revolvers are satisfying to me.

Me too, JwRosenthal. Most gratifying and effective shave.


It's gotta be a book too. No Kindle need apply.
 
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03Hemi 03Hemi
I still have a couple, but they rarely get worn because I hate having to wind a watch just to wear it.

I know how much of a burden this can be: extreme fatigue and exhaustion, clothes drenched from sweat, not to mention the need to consume copious amounts of Gatorade following. If you were more philanthropic, you would just pay someone to wind them for you each day.
 
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This thread calls for a photographic journey including young babes at Hooters ala @Mad Dog that will make the point sink in...
Dang...all I could muster up tonight was a menu shot...I suck...I’ll work on sucking less next time. 😁

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Spruce
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And while we’re at it, who’s winding $20K watches? Most of us are winding $200 watches and many of us $20 ones 😀
 
Dan S
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And while we’re at it, who’s winding $20K watches? Most of us are winding $200 watches and many of us $20 ones 😀

Ummm ... look at the post above yours.
 
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Some years ago, I met an Air Canada pilot who was wearing a Tag Heuer chronograph- a MECHANICAL one. I asked him why he hadn’t chosen the quartz version. He told me that the Airbus he flies doesn't rely on him for very much. He’s just there in case something goes wrong. He appreciates a mechanical watch which relies on him to keep running, and occasionally requires his input. Automatic? Yes. Not manually wound. But he chose that watch for many of the same reasons a person might choose a $20k stem winder watch. Flying a autonomous aircraft might cause a pilot’s training to stultify, and he might not react appropriately should the need arise for him to react.
 
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Ummm ... look at the post above yours.
Well, you know pilots ......... 😉
 
YY77
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Every product made great improvements in technology but reverting to a manual wind watch has it's charm because they started out like that and can still tell time. You wouldn't want / can't use the cell phones anymore from the 80's.
 
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So nice! dibs!!!!
That dial is awesome. (sorry back a few posts - Standy's black with the raised pattern)
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