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Homemade watch winder


dovo1695

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Whilst searching for an inexpensive watch winder, I came across this interesting website. It won't win any style competitions, but for the money I think it's a pretty good effort. Will a watch winder such as this that moves along a single plane (rather than "fuzzy logic" multi-plane movements)do the job? If so, I might give it a try.

EDIT: Posted this before I had my morning coffee. The link is now below :whistling:

http://showcase.netins.net/web/patrickd/winder/Homemade%20Watch%20Winder.html

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Will a watch winder such as this that moves along a single plane (rather than "fuzzy logic" multi-plane movements)do the job?

Of course. All that needs to happen is moving the watch's rotor. Anything else is just an excuse to charge you more for no reason.

A watch pulses billions and billions of times in it's life with hardly any wear. A winder salesman would have you believe that it needs to be wound randomly or ... SOMETHING TERRIBLE WILL HAPPEN. :brow::rofl:

If your watch needs to be spun in a certain direction to wind, then that's one point to observe, but many movements wind in either direction.

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Although the second tool seems to be quite a charming little machine, isn't that too busy for your movements?

Thanks for the feedback; I was wondering this myself.

My thought was to have it come on 8 times a day for 5-10 minutes using a $15 programmable timer. It is quite a bit of motion though. I wouldn't think that it would hurt a movement but I'm not really qualified to venture a guess. Not much point in saving a few hundred bucks on a winder if it winds up wrecking $1000 worth of movements :g: . I’m open to opinions on whether or not the nutator provides too much/violent motion for safe watch winding. Thoughts?

Link to Nutator below:

http://tcssci.com/nutator/index.htm

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