Su said.Īutomatic watches usually have a power reserve averaging 36 hours, and most can run on idle for a few days. “These adjustable settings can be important since the winding requirements for watches do vary from movement to movement - usually not significantly, but occasionally you’ll need specific settings in order to wind the watch efficiently,” Mr. The most useful winders are those with multiple settings, allowing a choice of duration and winding speed, and a variation between clockwise and counterclockwise motion, he added.
“But I don’t see it as vital or important to any watch collector, except for the more complex perpetual calendars,” he said. Su Jia Xian, another Singaporean collector, said he also owned a winder, and used it from time to time. In particular, watches incorporating complications like a perpetual calendar or a complicated astronomical display would benefit, he said. “Automatic winders are especially useful to keep certain difficult-to-adjust watches running,” said Melvyn Teillol-Foo, a fan of the devices and a well-known Singaporean collector. On that question, collectors appear to be divided into two camps: Those who believe that to maintain a watch’s accuracy its lubricants need to be spread evenly by a continuous movement of the gears and wheels and those who believe that increased wear resulting from continual movement may do more harm than good. Today’s winder cases come with a variety of bells and whistles, transformed into cigar humidors, bars, safes, even high-end sound systems. But with the rising popularity of high-quality automatic watches the once utilitarian and rather cumbersome machines have been given a seductive makeover to meet, maybe even create, demand among watch collectors. Watch winding devices, which keep the movement of automatic watches running by gently simulating human motion, were once used only by manufacturers and watch workshops.
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