I got tired of setting watches in my collection since I rarely wear the same watch two days in a row. If someone asks for time I look at my phone anyway. So I treat my vintage watches as bracelets. If someone points to the watch showing the wrong time ( which has never happened) I’ll say it’s set to a different time zone. Am I the only one who does this? I also want to protect the skin on my fingers, some watches require force to wind them daily.
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I’m afraid to admit this, in fear that I’ll get flamed by the community, but I too don’t wind my (albeit, automatic) watches. Nor do I use my watch to tell the time; as I still take a second or two to tell the time reading an analogue watch. I also switch my watches in and out too frequently for the power reserves to hold up.
So, perhaps in the past year or two, I’ve just stopped setting my watches all together. I just don’t see the point.
Nope, I don’t wind mine unless I’m going to wear it. It never goes more than a week or so without being wound, but it’s not a daily obsession.
This is normal, I think what op is describing is not even winding it when they do decide to wear it, which is utterly insane to me
Ah, yes. That is a bit odd.
If I’m wearing one of mine, I’m gonna wind it. My brain wouldn’t let me not do it.
You won’t get callouses on the tips until you wind your watches like a man -Ron
I saw some time ago a post with a photo of three guys wrists wearing rolex daytonas at a wedding and one was showing different time. It was OP’s wrist who after the backlash posted that he does not care, he was wearing the watch as a bracelet, unwound, and not to read the time because he was filthy rich.
I thought ‘what an utter douchebag’ then.
I still think that it is ridiculous now.
Unless a watch has a reason for being dead at a certain time, I would definitely wind my watches. If one stops working I’ll grab another and try and fix it myself, service it, or sell it for parts.
I can’t imagine winding a watch would ever in a million years hurt the skin on your fingers…
For me the manual winding is half the fun, I enjoy it.
I wouldn’t do this personally but nothing wrong with it imho. Def an interesting approach
Watches are just jewelry so I don’t think it’s a big deal
The wanting to protect the skin on your fingers comes off as a pretentious douche or a troll post
Attention all the losers who downvoted my original post ( yet here you are commenting on it ) and all the losers who will downvote this one: everything you like, and everything you do, I liked and did 5 years ago. Clowns.
Sometimes i worry that im kinda wimpy these days, then some silly fool posts out loud wondering about damaging his dainty little fingertips winding a fucking watch. Christ.
My latest hater! Welcome!
I just got all my watches back from the bank safe and set them in just 8 minutes. I have 22 watches with some of them being perpetual and annual calendars. It really is not that big of a deal
You know there are watchwinders for manual watches too ? They are more expensive then regular winders but I’m guessing it’s no problem for someone who’s fingers hurt from the crown
Well, I’ll give you that, this is unpopular. I guess I’ll give you a reluctant upvote…
I downvoted before I knew he liked to and did in fact set his watch 5 years ago. Wish I could take that back
Welp, see ya in the other sub