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Try to move the watch just like how your wrist would move during working or walking and observe the rotor. You can try this with watches that have exhibition caseback.

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So in any case, do check with the manufacturer of the movement if frequent winding is permissible or not just to be on the safe side.Ģ – To Increase Power Reserve For AccuracyĬontrary to popular belief, just wearing your watch would NOT make it stock up to the full power reserve.

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Now, I don’t recommend that you go and wind your watch everyday as some movement can be sensitive to frequent winding.īased on my experience (corroborated with other information from the net), Seiko movements such as the 6R15 and 4R36 are quite robust and can be manual wind even everyday without any known issue.

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Sure, we can always get a watch winder that will do the winding for us but it requires a bit of extra monies plus the additional electricity bill.īut if you don’t want to spend further than your watch, manual wind is still the best option. The timing to do this shall depend on its remaining power reserve, estimated based on the last time you take it off your wrist). The simplest solution to this problem is to keep our watches running over the weekend by manual winding it just to keep it from dead. All of this resetting can be a bother, especially on that hectic Monday morning. Not to mention if the watch has day and date function, you need to reset those too as well as its am/pm correction. Just imagine, when you want to pick them up, you have to manual wind it a bit first and then reset the time. There is no damage to them at all as newer synthetic lubricants inside most watches won’t coagulate over time, not like mineral oils from older watches.īut practical wise, it is not a convenient thing at all. Now automatic watches dropping dead is not a big deal.

So if you got many watches and use only one of them a day, most of your watches will not have much wrist time and subsequently drop dead. In my opinion, there are two main reasons that anyone should manual wind his/her automatic watch:Īutomatic watches will only self wind if you wear it. This increases its appeal and soon mechanical watches are becoming almost obsolete nowadays.īut then since our automatic watches are designed to just run forever (assuming we wear it every day), do we still need to manual wind it? The invention of automatic watch creates a watch that does not need to be winded manually and releases watch owners from the mundane work of manual winding it everyday. Advantages of mechanical movement are the cheaper price and generally lighter weight. The industry responds to this by putting a weighted rotor that rotates as our wrist is moving to wind the mainspring (for more detail explanation, visit my post on how automatic watch works here).Ībove is Hamilton Khaki King Officer, a one of a kind watch by Hamilton that uses mechanical movement. The obvious reason was the nuisance for having to wind it time and again. Traditional mechanical watches, however, need to be manual wind every one or two days (depending on its power reserve).īut as mechanical watch technology matures, there was a demand for an “automatic” or “self winding” watch. Why Do You Need To Wind Your Automatic Watch?Īutomatic watches are designed to be self sustaining, that is not needing a manual winding.

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Here, I would like to elaborate more on this topic here as I think it is worth to go in detail on this.īut if you want to jump to how to wind automatic watch directly, click this link HERE to go to the second part of this post. I’ve actually written a post on that touches the subject of watch winding but this post is more on the differences between manual winding vs watch winder (You can take a look at that post here ). The answer is: it depends on how do you want to use your watch. So do we still need to manual wind an automatic watch then? This is an improvement over the mechanical watch that needs to be manual wind (i.e you need to rotate the crown knob) to increase its power reserve. Two questions that I get a lot from people is why do we need to manual wind an automatic watch and how to wind an automatic watch.Īs we all know, automatic watch is “automatic” because the there’s a rotor that “automatically” rotates and recharges the power reserve by winding the mainspring with every movement of the watch. How To Wind An Automatic Watch? And Why Do We Need To Do It?