How do you care for a manual movement?

[Nightstroker]

How do you care for a manual watch movement?

Somebody on another board posed this question and it got me thinking a little bit....

I know that most automatic movements have a clutch system that will prevent the watch from being over-wound....do manual movements have the same feature?

Also....how often do you wind a manual....every day....every couple of days....?

Seems obvious to me that you should twist it up a few roatations every day....but is it obvious when you should stop winding?

Should it be wound slowly....like if you were to wind an automatic....as to help prevent damage to the movement?

NS

[RWG Technical]

You should wind a manual watch until it can't be wound anymore. There is no clutch, the mainspring is fixed to the mainspring barrel and once you fully wind the spring, it can't be wound anymore. It doesn't matter if it takes you 200 turns on the crown to reach the stop, don't stop winding until you can't wind anymore and the crown won't turn.

You can't overwind a watch, so don't even think of that happening.

No reason to wind slowly, there are no click wheels to damage, and since most handwind movements will run for 42 hours or more, winding every day is fine.

RG

[hiker01]

You should wind a manual watch until it can't be wound anymore. There is no clutch, the mainspring is fixed to the mainspring barrel and once you fully wind the spring, it can't be wound anymore. It doesn't matter if it takes you 200 turns on the crown to reach the stop, don't stop winding until you can't wind anymore and the crown won't turn.

You can't overwind a watch, so don't even think of that happening.

No reason to wind slowly, there are no click wheels to damage, and since most handwind movements will run for 42 hours or more, winding every day is fine.

RG

As usual! Ur da MAN, The Zigmeister! Thanks!

[Nightstroker]

As usual! Ur da MAN, The Zigmeister! Thanks!

I agree!

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