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@Jkay...loved it man. Loved it.

I showed the pic to mother in law and wife... They laughed

You have spoken the truth. A watch ticks billions of times .. No exaggeration. It's about maintaining the oil in the jewels first and foremost.

Just using common sense if your watches are always running than they are continually putting wear on the bearings and will wear out at least those parts faster. This is probably especially true in the Asian movements if they have not been serviced because from what I've read they typically show up dry. I can tell you from experience of taking apart a Chrono on a A7750 that the Chrono portion has an all plastic bearing and it's not advisable to leave the Chrono's running for extended periods, for example just to see the smooth second hand. That being said the jewels are designed to make excellent bearings and should last a long time if lubricated correctly. I think the answer to this is likely that it is way more important to the life of your watch to have it services regularly and the decision to wind or not wind pails in comparison.

I have a nice winder I bought a few years ago. I used it faithfully for three or four months. Since I had to adjust my watches anyway I lost interest in it and finally quit using my winder. I have never read anything solid one way or the other as to winders being good or bad.

Hand-winding an automatic watch spins the reducing gear at fantastic speeds. This can and does strip off it's teeth, especially in the 7750 and 7753 Swiss and Asian copy. Many people here with lots of watches simply allow them to run down and then wear them to get them running again when you want to use it. Some people pull the crown to hack (stop) the movement in their 7750s between uses.

Auto-winding (via the internal rotor or external winder) an automatic watch is preferable to daily manual-winding because the latter prematurely wears the auto-wind components. If you search the subject on most watch forums, you are likely to find many threads discussing this.

That would be nice, but even most of the gens for sale on VRM have 580's. 585's are going for 400-600$ a pair right now