Winding newly acquired Speedmaster

Evitzee

Now wear it!

Iceter

This isn’t the swinging sixties or the free-love seventies. We’re supposed to be woke. When a watch resists, you stop.

No means no.

tikkathree

Er, you my friend, can be as woke as you like, I am merely awake.

Beyond the word play available to users of the English language, I find myself wondering how it can be that a watch brand like Omega can produce a watch the simple winding of which requires outside technical advice and support: really?

I admit to being completely ignorant of the technical specification of this new model but which watch in the history of watchmaking required anything more than a simple winding of the crown to get it going?

schoolboy

I apologize, but I don’t see the problem in asking questions.

that’s what forums are for!

Dor_42

His critic is not towards you asking questions, he just thinks it shouldn't be so "complicated" to know how to wind your watch.

Dor_42

His critic is not towards you asking questions, he just thinks it shouldn't be so "complicated" to know how to wind your watch.

schoolboy

I apologize, but I don’t see the problem in asking questions.

that’s what forums are for!

gbesq

In the 24th century, the Borg wear Omegas and assimilate all other brands.

tikkathree

Er, you my friend, can be as woke as you like, I am merely awake.

Beyond the word play available to users of the English language, I find myself wondering how it can be that a watch brand like Omega can produce a watch the simple winding of which requires outside technical advice and support: really?

I admit to being completely ignorant of the technical specification of this new model but which watch in the history of watchmaking required anything more than a simple winding of the crown to get it going?

tikkathree

He doesn't comprehend how it can be any more complimacated than possibly releasing a screw-down crown before taking a gentle grasp of the crown and twirling it gently, either in a clockwise direction or in the old style to and fro manner. And I have this genuine quest for knowledge.



Ask away, honestly, ask away. Let's find out together.... every day's a learning day after all.

JimInOz

When I was a young kid, all of my toys that had autonomous movement had to be wound, usually with a key.

My Hornby train set was spring powered, as were a number of my toy cars, although some were "pull back", and when you let them go, they'd take off across the floor, or spear off the end of the kitchen table.

My Dad would wind the mantel clock in the sitting room every Sunday, and he would wind his Westclox bedside alarm clock every night for work. And in the morning, he'd wind his watch for the day.

To me, growing up with that technology, and buying my first Omage at 18 and having to wind it every day, and knowing how to do it and when to stop, was no more a mystery than any other "natural function" (to put it politely).

For the younger generations who, as children, were more familiar with battery powered toys, electric clocks and other things that "ran by themselves", it can be a skill that has to be learn't, as it is no longer instinctive.

So I think we should give them the benefit of our "ancient wisdom" occasionaly, and trust that they can pass that knowledge to their peers, or their offspring, depending on their circumstances.

As an example, if my parents ever saw this they would either be amazed, stunned in disbelief, or attempt to smash it as "the work of the devil".

Not to label them as "simple folk" though, my Mum, as a young girl, was a radar operator during World War Two and my Dad could fix anything that ever broke (mainly our toys).

Evitzee

When my grandmother bought me my first watch from a small town jeweler in Wisconsin in 1959 almost all watches were manuals, I needed no instruction. You pulled out the crown to set the time, and wound it up until the crown stopped every morning to keep it running. I saw my dad do that many times and a kid just knew how to use a watch. I still have the watch and it still runs.

With the internet and its massive amounts of data almost any simple activity can be discussed to the nth degree. In many cases we have lost the desire to figure out simple things for ourselves. We have become less independent.

D Duckie

Same here.
My first watch was a manual wind Mickey Mouse watch. I learnt to wind it before I could properly read the time.
My dad had a manual wind watch which I think he may have bought after the war. He was a Wireless operator/Mid upper Air gunner on a Lancaster. He built his first Wireless from a kit when he was a kid(a crystal set). No auto/self tuning or auto winding back in those days.
If one wanted good TV reception, someone had to turn the Ariel around on top of the telly whenever the channel was changed and it was all trial and error with a dramatic change in reception when one let go of the Ariel so constant adjustment was required until it was optimised.
If one went to hospital, all the nurses wore a wind up watch on their uniform to use when taking a person's pulse when doing observations or timing the dosage of a drip.
The thermometers had Mercury in them, and a nurse could take your blood pressure the old school way without the machine doing it all for them.
If we didn't chop the wood for the stove, there were no cooked meals or hot water in our household so I learnt to chop wood safely around the same time I was learning to tell the time.
Our local high school was big on army cadets back in the day.
When I was small, i used to see the high schoolers going to school in their army cadet unfiorms carrying a 303.

And if you tried telling that to the youth of today. They wouldn't believe you.(The Four Yorkshiremen)😀

p4ul

Luxury.

D Duckie

Agreed.
It seems people can't just go and buy a watch based upon how it looks on the wrist.
They've got to research it on the net and obsess over half a mil here and 3/4 of a mil there and then weigh the watch and ponder if it will be too top heavy or too large or small or whether it's too dressy or casual.