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OrangeSport
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Hi,

The Speedmaster is the first manual wind watch I have had for many, many years. I am taking the approach of winding while it is still clicking with wach wind, and stopping when it stops clicking and kind of springs back (like it's bumped into a pillow). Take it that is correct?

How many winds does it usually take from stopped? I read somewhere it was high (around 90-100) but I am not seeing anywhere near that. Also, what kind of power reserve do you all see in real use?

Thanks
 
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Those Lemania based chronographs should have 50+ hours of reserve. Wind it until it stops completely. Unless you're King Kong or your mainspring is about to fail you won't break it.
 
Privateday7
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Mine winding about 100 turns and have about 58 hours power reserve.
Of course what consider 1 turn will slightly different from person to person, hence variation of the turning number,
 
Archer
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Wind it every day until it stops winding. You will feel when it can't be wound anymore. Omega specs call for 48 hours of reserve, but they often go quite a lot more than that.

Cheers, Al
 
Hijak
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...Keep winding my friend.😉 Just love that TLIGuy😁
 
TLIGuy
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In all seriousness now....I have two 861's and they both have a reserve of about 51 hours each after a full wind. I tend to have long drawn out turns so a full wind from zero is about 31-33 turns. I wind them once in the morning and it's usually it's about 15-16 turns for me.
 
OrangeSport
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Thanks all. I gave it a full wind at 6pm. Well, I wound it till it started to bounce back. I'll leave it to see how long it lasts. Hopefully 'till about now on Friday!
 
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If its a new one it will bounce back a few times before its fully wound. After a few weeks you will encounter less bounce back when winding. Wind until you feel the stop. You will know.
 
OrangeSport
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OK, thanks. It bounced, and I tried again; it still bounced. We'll see if that was a full wind. It's still going strong at the moment, 19hrs and 13 mins in.
 
OrangeSport
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Seems to run approx 6 seconds fast a day. Pretty happy with that for a non-COSC watch that is unadjusted and just how it came straight out of the box.

👍

Am really bonding well with this watch!
 
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TLIGuy TLIGuy
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As TLIGuy says

Wind past the bounce for the first few weeks. I stopped at the wind back (bounce) at first and found it wasn't lasting that long and was stopping until i searched on here and the net.
 
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It won't just be a 'bounce', it will be a dead stop. The bounce is the mainspring trying to unwind as tension builds but being stopped by a click locking in between two of the winding gear's teeth after the spring pushes backwards just a hair. Full wind is when you can't twist anymore and feel like you need to use pliers. (Don't use pliers 😉 )
 
OrangeSport
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Well, it's now gone beyond 48 hours and is still happily ticking away. I guess I gave it a full wind!
 
OrangeSport
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It stopped on 52 hours and 6 minutes. That's not too shabby at all! Means I can get it through the weekend on one wind (I plan for this to be my weekend watch).

😀
 
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