I work on computers all day and have never wound a watch as long as I have been wearing it - I also take my watch off every night when I go to bed. So the only time I wind a watch is when I change to a new one that hasn't been worn for a couple of days.
I have a power reserve and sit at a computer for most of the day. At worst, the meter does not go down, but it maintains the PR. I find the watch replenishes the night's drain on the PR during the commute to work and home.
When I only had one auto, I never had to wind it even though I'd let it sit occasionaly while I wore one of my vintages. Everyday activity was more than sufficient to keep it running. Now that I have two that I switch off fairly regularly, I have to wind/set each one if I've let it sit more than two days.
I never manually wind my automatics. I shake it for a few seconds to get it going and then wear it and I've never had one stop on me. Just walking around a bit is more than enough to keep them running, even if you have a desk job.
Agreed. I've never had an automatic run down on me while I was wearing it. I wouldn't worry about the desk job/automatic combo, you'll be fine. Just wear the watch at work and outside of work, don't take it off when you get home and let it sit for 12 hours until the morning, and you'll be ok. Its all the little things you do like walk around, wash your hands, driving in the car, that also winds up the watch.
If you read in the forums (beyond this thread) you'll find the experiences of some of the members here require that they manually wind their watches. I personally know of a few people that need to do this as well.
For point #1, watches based on the ETA 2892A2 movement seem to suffer from inefficient winding, for instance my GF's father's watch with ETA 2895 doesn't wind sufficiently from his daily activities to keep running overnight. Also watches requiring service may wind less efficiently. Rolexes and ETA 2824s in good shape usually seem to wind fine on most people.
Agreed! Professional data wranglers typically have *no* problem keeping an automatic wound.
Unfortunately, just about every close call I've ever had nearly damaging a fine watch occurred, you guessed it, at my desk. Who knew keyboards, mice, monitors, and office desks could be so dangerous?
From experience, I've found that by rocking the watch back and forth in an arcing motion, using your wrist as the 'pivot' for about 2 minutes (if you have free time, that is!) is able to keep the movement adequately 'charged' for at least 24-30 hours. BTW, the wrist movement should be between 1- 2 oscillations per second.
So I rock my 'babies' to sleep every night and again for 1 minute in the morning just in case! :roll:
This is done on those watches I intend to wear during the week and don't like to keep using the crown to adjust the day and date!
Do wind the watch via the crown if necessary, but I prefer to rock them coz my watches ROCKS! :-d.
Whether they will stop or not is only one factor. I find that my autos are more consistently accurate when wound on regular intervals (e.g. every 36-48 hours, whether recently worn or not).
After receiving the package a few months ago, I removed the watch carefully trying not to cause it to wind to see if I could look at the watch before it started ticking. It was already ticking. It has never stopped ticking since.
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