Watch winders is it necessary

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Hi guys Inhave a question for our knowledgeable forum members.I bought a couple Rolex watches from A.D this year.i have since retired and don’t go out as much. Just spending time with grand kids.when I go out may be once a week I just wind the watch set the date and time and go.Is that safe for the watch or I need buy a winder. Any thoughts.Thanks

IMHO a badly designed winder could in theory damage a watch and cause wear from excessive and repetitive movement on the same plane and axis to the escapement wheel pinions. And today because the oils used in most modern watches including Rolex, and when properly serviced are not very prone to clotting or coagulating like the old mineral oils. So its not a problem to just rest a watch for a month or longer then just wind reset and go, must take all of 30 seconds to do.

But if stored for longer than a few month or so I would recommend to just give them a small wind to keep the tiny amount of oil around the movement.Think of it this way if you had a choice of two watches one thats been on a winder for a few years. Or a watch that was new old stock unused unworn which one would you choose.

While there is no significant evidence that a good Watch Winder will either save or harm your watch. Over the many years of dealing with RSC Bexly UK and talking to the various watchmakers there, who did not recommend watch-winders for any of the Rolex line up. Its quite funny now that Rolex brought out a Rolex branded winder but made by a third party, its simple today many watch winders = big £££$$$€€ and huge profits.IMHO many watch-winders today have a high quality finish on the outside (to justify the extremely high price),but hiding some very cheaply mass-produced insides.

Myself been learning about the history of the RWC for well over 50 years,and wearing and enjoying wearing Rolex watches almost daily over those years.And all information supplied from my own 79 year old brain power, without the aid of loupes,nicknames,machine winders, timegraphers, alignment points, protective film,AD relationship building, investment £$€ stuff, special cleaning cloths, phone apps, and the rest of todays Rolex watch toys.

In over 50 years of owning and wearing Rolex watches never felt the need for these machine winder things. I sometime wonder how the millions of Rolex watch owners managed before these watch winders, timegraphers etc, perhaps back then they just bought there watches to wear and enjoy. Now the best winders are wrist thats for sure,IMHO automatic watches are designed to be worn by people only. And not on a expensive box machine winder, NOW while on a machine its in the same position for hours,days or even weeks, perhaps months .Now today most people move in a huge diversity of manners, causing a fairly even distribution of motion of the watches winding mechanism and escapement positions. Now because a watch winder is normally limited to a very small number of directions and types of movement normally just back and throe.IMHO a badly designed winder could in theory damage a watch and cause wear from excessive and repetitive movement on the same plane and axis to the escapement wheel pinions. And today because the oils used in most modern watches including Rolex, and when properly serviced are not very prone to clotting or coagulating like the old mineral oils. So its not a problem to just rest a watch for a month or longer then just wind reset and go, must take all of 30 seconds to do.But if stored for longer than a few month or so I would recommend to just give them a small wind to keep the tiny amount of oil around the movement.Think of it this way if you had a choice of two watches one thats been on a winder for a few years. Or a watch that was new old stock unused unworn which one would you choose.While there is no significant evidence that a good watch winder will either save or harm your watch. Over the many years of dealing with RSC Bexly UK and talking to the various watchmakers there, who did not recommend watch-winders for any of the Rolex line up. Its quite funny now that Rolex brought out a Rolex branded winder but made by a third party, its simple today many watch winders = big £££$$$€€ and huge profits.IMHO many watch-winders today have a high quality finish on the outside (to justify the extremely high price),but hiding some very cheaply mass-produced insides.

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