Reply With QuoteAn odd first post haha. Welcome !
Hi everyone
This is my first post so please be gentle. I have started my watch collection for only about a year now, before then well...there was nothing! Never have an interest and can't remember when the last time I have bought a watch.
Anyway, introduction done, I would like to ask if I would put an automatic watch on the top of commercial fridge which vibrate 24 hours a day, would that act like a automatic watch winder? and would any damage could be done to the watch? Silly question for the first post it may seem but I really like to know.
Thank you
An odd first post haha. Welcome !
You’ll fit right in🤣
I think it’s more like to be vibrated off the edge and onto the floor than to wind it. Power reserve should be fine to not have stopped after a day or so so don’t fret about it.
30 mins attached my favourite bedtime toy keeps mine going just fine.
I see, I might try it with my cheap Chi-Cheese (but gorgeous) Parnis, that one have power reserve metre. and thank you for the welcome, just excuse my English and slight madness but recently caused the watch bug, who would have thought a little thing around the wrist could bring so much joy (and potential bankruptcy lol)
Is it April 1st already?
5 min in the spin drier works for me.
Not real... next!
Microwaves are the most effective. You get rotation to wind the watch and also the effect of the magnetron compound this. Added bonus is the cleaning effecting killing bugs as well.
I use the bit attachment on my dremel to hold onto the crown. I just hold the watch tightly in one hand and only a couple of minutes later on high speed, it's good to go for the week.
Originally Posted by thaiman
It's your second post. You really need to do better.
F.T.F.A.
Welcome.
I think your fridge needs some repair work.
love it here already
Welcome to the forum and a high 6 from me.
mike
Put 30 ice cubes, half a lemon, a cup of gin and the watch in the nutribullet... ten seconds on full power, wound, washed and wabi in a flash, then retire untill sozzled.
Yup, a mobile over the bed can then serve two purposes!
Haha! :) Nice one whether serious or joke!
Welcome, nice intro there!
High six tractor boy :-)
My partner accidentally (!) left her Citizen among the washing. Two hours of wash and spin at 60c and it was just fine, and very shiny.
That was two years ago and it's still going fine. £105.
C'mon chap, you apologised for your poor English and now you're understanding obscure regional references? Yes, this is a funny thread, but give it up now.
O_o
No but have you tried putting a tinfoil hat over it.
Paul.
Ahem, glad I never seriously considered something like this to get around the issue of the lack of a quickset date on my 1655.
Hahaha. What a great first post! Welcome OP :)
According to your profile Your first post was 11 months ago commenting on a Kim Yong Un thread.
Welcome to the forum OP. Maybe you mean it's your first post as an OP ie. starting a thread, which makes more sense. Anyway, I wouldn't have thought there be any worthwhile winding from fridge vibrations - surely best avoided if possible.
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So, the actual answer, without jokes etc, is NO it won't wind an automatic watch up. Putting it on something that's just vibrating will simply vibrate it and over time make it fall apart.
To make an automatic watch wind up needs about 600 to 700 complete revolutions of the watch. The selfwinding weight in the mechanism hangs downwards (direction of gravity) and as the watch rotates it winds up the main spring, a little bit at a time. Put an automatic on your wrist and the general movement it gets will wind the mechanism in about 4 hours.
Brilliant! ROFL as I have a vision of how this would be.
Thanks
Jim
Works for me.
Seriously, welcome to the forum mate.
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I keep my magnet collection in the fridge so this idea is a no-go for me.....but I like the idea of strapping my watches to the spinny round bit that sprays out water in the dishwater. My watches can go 300 meters and 10000 meters so they should be ok and they will also always be clean. I cant believe that this has not been done this before.
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You made me spray tea all over my keyboard :-) :-) best one yet
Works for me.
Seriously, welcome to the forum mate.
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Scottie
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Works for me.
Seriously, welcome to the forum mate.
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good idea though
Thank you for this and yes, I actually was being serious
Where is this commercial fridge? Might someone steal your watch?
If you have a glass back on your watch then you can see the self-winding rotor, and as you rotate the watch you'll see it always dangles downwards. Putting your watch on a vibrating machine will just vibrate it rather than rotate it. I think NASA do that sort of thing as part of their testing to destruction for space flight rating!
Last edited by LorneG; 30th August 2018 at 11:49.
Wow. XD
Hahah! Well, I’ve never attached a watch to the spinny thing, but when I did have the luxury of a dishwasher, I would occasionally pop my SS Datejust or my Submariner onto the rack with the dishes!
Clean as a clean thing, and lovely and warm to wear afterwards!
I can already hear the gasps and groans from the horrified members here, and I’m awaiting the flames from them... however, both watches are now 25 and 35 years old respectively, serviced every 10 years, and have always run perfectly!
They’re also still ridiculously clean!
Edit: Btw, welcome to the forum, OP!
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Last edited by pinpull; 30th August 2018 at 15:01.
Is that mean my thinking was along the line of NASA. LOL. Look like I need to order automatic watch winder 😅If you have a glass back on your watch then you can see the self-winding rotor, and as you rotate the watch you'll see it always dangles downwards. Putting your watch on a vibrating machine will just vibrate it rather than rotate it. I think NASA do that sort of thing as part of their testing to destruction for space flight rating!
I have this unusual system to wind my automatic watches that works every time,without any extra outlay.
I strap it to my wrist and, hey presto, at the end of the day it's fully wound.
I'm just a very naughty boy.
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Watch winder, or wear it for a few hours, or just wind it up like a regular watch if its gone flat.
NASA really did shake watches to pieces as part of their testing
http://www.woundforlife.com/2014/04/...sting-process/
I only have 2 wrists though and only my left one get the watch. Actually, on the serious note, Is it matter if watches left for few weeks or even few months without winding? I have been told that the movement might get stuck (somehow!).I have this unusual system to wind my automatic watches that works every time,without any extra outlay.
I strap it to my wrist and, hey presto, at the end of the day it's fully wound.
You've opened the whole, 'should I put my watch on an automatic winder when I'm not using it or should I let it run flat', topic. Different people have very different opinions on this and since there appears to be no definite answer then I'd suggest the pro's or con's of each are sufficiently small that it doesn't matter. My own opinion is to let it run flat. Incidentally, no way a decent movement will ever get stuck if runs flat and is then wound up again.
Thank you, Only f I would have ask the right question in the first place rather than the fridge experiment lol
Like all things, getting into the nuances of watches takes time, so not knowing what question to ask at first is perfectly reasonable. Putting it on an industrial fridge to wind it up was certainly an interesting idea and hopefully the forum answers have saved it from falling to pieces! I have been known to put a watch inside a fridge (freezer actually) for a few days or taped to the cockpit dash of a particularly shaky helicopter, but would never mention it for fear of the jokes....
+1
LMAO … No, the movement will not get “stuck.”
That old dilemma, should I wear my watch or pop It on the fridge.
Maybe the tumble dryer is worth considering?
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Fridge doors & motor are magnetic. Could end up magnetizing the watch.
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