This is how I basically put all of my watches to sleep every night, with the crown facing downwards. Never had any issues with my Rolex watches which seem to gain only about +2 seconds a day. The only watch that I own which happens to be affected by being in that position is my unregulated out of the box Seiko MM300. I place it with the crown facing upwards so it wouldn't gain too much time (about +4 seconds a day compared with 8 to 10 seconds with the crown facing downwards).

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Dial Up on a watch box.

I'm loosing .2 secs per day with this position.


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Dial up on the bed, next to my pillow. I've got an '86 16800 and it's running ridiculously slow. Like -17 seconds per day slow. So until I can take it to my local guy who does all my watch work, (read: when he comes back from his vacation) that's how it shall be.


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I don't yet have a Rolex, but I kept my Tudor Pelagos crown up at night. No particular reason other than I thought it would be likely to scratch the bracelet putting it face up and I didn't notice enough drift to worry about the position (maybe 2-3 seconds/day). At that rate it usually ran down from a day or two of not wearing it before the time drifted enough to have to correct.

 

I wear mine. I like being able to check the time when I'm not facing my clock. If I'm not wearing it, I just leave it face up. I'm not really concerned with which position is best when it's not on my wrist.


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I wear mine. I like being able to check the time when I'm not facing my clock. If I'm not wearing it, I just leave it face up. I'm not really concerned with which position is best when it's not on my wrist.

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I tend to move around a lot when I sleep. Do you ever worry that you're going to scratch your watch on your headboard or anything?

 

Dial up on night stand or it stays on my wrist depending on where I fall asleep. I have no idea how many seconds it gains or loses. Shrug.


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I don't have a Rolex yet, but I keep my Black Bay dial up at night and it gains average of just over 1 second per day. I think each individual watch may be different, but I wouldn't expect huge positional variation with Rolexes certified to -2/+2.

 

Same way I keep it during the day, because I paid for it

 

I store my Rolex crown up at night.
It's on the winder when I wear my Tudor.

Same goes for the Tudor 😉

 

Funny I should encounter this thread, because I just watched a video last night on YouTube that suggested crown-down as the position least likely to introduce scratches to the case on a hard surface (crown up potentially introduces them to the side making contact with the surface; dial up may potentially introduce scratches to both the clasp and the case back, where it contacts the clasp). Putting it crown down exposes the least surface area, supposedly.

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Just checkin in to say I have nothing useful to add about the proper way to store my watches at night.

I would like like to add that this forum has taught me so much in such a short time I'm indebted to you all. But now I'm a little paranoid that tossing my watch in the change/key tray is not the way to go.

 

Crown side up, bracelet opened for support, been resting my Rolexes at night in this manner for 20+ years, never an issue with loss of time, long-term damage, etc.

 

Are you referring to this?

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Awesome, nice post. How old is that document out of curiosity?

 

My watch dial faces up most of the time at day time. So I put my watch upright (well, not that upright, you know) with 12 top and 6 down at night, the position of which you can treat it like a clock on the platform. At the upright position the watch runs slower so I can balance the time gained at day time. This is how I maintain my Rolex (3135 movement) with nearly zero time variance consistently.

 

Great to hear all these different methods. I personally keep mine crown-side up on the nightstand sitting on a microfibre cloth. Time-keeping has been relatively consistent.

 

Dial up for all my watches. Why? No particular reason, except its easy and won't fall over I guess.