Reply With QuoteHanhart, Steinhart? A lot cheaper but some nice one's. Also Nomos and Farer.
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Where are they? Longines - none. Omega - almost none. IWC - one model 8 day (I fancy that one). Yes I know PP etc have them but reasonably priced ie under 10K there’s very little choice it seems.
Hanhart, Steinhart? A lot cheaper but some nice one's. Also Nomos and Farer.
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Preferably available in the UK….Originally Posted by robert75
Tha cartier santos Dumont in XL has a hand wound Piaget movement and is just over £5k.
Nomos is stocked in many places in the UK now. Grand Seiko also have a range of manual wind watches.
Surely vintage is the answer? There are a profusion of vintage watches that simply cannot be bettered.
Can’t get over that tit masquerading as a crown.
Out of ignorance and interest, why would you go for a windup watch instead of automatic? What is the advantage? I haven't heard of any of those watches mention, except Cartier.
Don't forget some of Eddie's feature handwinding movements. I enjoy the very smooth wind on my PRS29B.
David
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
Lots of hand wound Hamiltons out there, easily available in the Uk
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Many like the daily ritual of directly winding a watch and even the mechanical intimacy of the action. They are simpler with less to go wrong and less to fix if they do. Getting down to basics without a rotor means that they also tend to be more handsome, at least in vintage and high end where money gets spent on functional and decorative finish. Whisper it quietly, but when you get to handwind, the improvements over the last century often tend to be advantages for the manufacturer - making it easier to produce a watch more cheaply and with less human intervention. As such, there are watches from the turn of the century offering perfectly acceptable levels of performance for the modern owner and, as case tech improved, there are watches from the middle of the last century that can stand toe to toe with all but the the very, very best of today.
And they really are pretty:
Even Rolex from the period they were based in London:
And evidence of how little they changed in half a century:
My CWC pilots chronograph with Valjoux hand wound movement. Nice and slim compared to other auto chrono’s I’ve had.
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More wrist than hand wound, but thumb went, and scar extends into the palm a little bit
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More wrist than hand wound, but thumb went, and scar extends into the palm a little bit
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Unfortunately only a very scarce 400pcs limited edition from 10 years ago, but it's Swiss, modern, one of the most recognized designs, and most importantly - HAND WOUND :)
Panerai does a bunch of them.
One from Patek.
All handwind
As much as I like the Eterna(?) on the right, I dislike the 2 on the left, including the Nomos as it’s clearly a calibre too small for the case resulting in a small second in the middle of the dial. But I know it’s one of my pet hates in watch design and it isn’t a criticism of your own taste.All handwind
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Admittedly a lot of these are colour/strap variations (and not sure all of them are available off the shelf) but more options than I thought here. Something for many different tastes....
https://www.omegawatches.com/en-gb/s...inding-watches
Airain Type 20 is handwound. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch was a manual winding watch?
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Mine too, and worse still if it has a date feature halfway across the dial.
Cheers,
Neil.
Vertex have a few hand-wound watches.
I love my chrono monopusher!
My Apollo 8 is a hand wound beauty
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Like this (today's arrival, Hanhart 417ES, 42mm but wears smaller):
Or maybe the Longines Heritage Military handwound (43mm):
This is also on my shopping list, Eberhard 8 jours Grande Taille (41mm):
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I have a brace, one from Eddie and one from SC to try the Dornblüth style, just a nice change from the usual autos for a day or two. Just realised I bought the Archimede over 7 years ago and the PRS-5 16 years ago !
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I have a brace, one from Eddie and one from SC to try the Dornblüth style, just a nice change from the usual autos for a day or two. Just realised I bought the Archimede over 7 years ago and the PRS-5 16 years ago !
Love that Archimede I wasn't aware of that model (if indeed it still exists). What's the size? I've been after a nice handwound along these lines for a while.
Edit: found it. There's a bronze one too! Hmmm ...
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Yes, Panerai would be an obvious choice.
Their reworked 8 days manual is now free of the early issues and the power reserve is fantastic.
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The exact model doesn't exist as mine has a higher grade movement (decorated, 21,600 bph) which they don't use now, but the current models have heat blued hands whereas mine are painted. Unlike most of the watches in this style which are also 42mm, the Archimede has 20mm lugs rather than 22mm, which makes for better look on my 7" wrists. A pal was showing me his bronze Steinhart chrono the other day and I must say I like the look. As an aside, the PRS-5 Broadarrow really is a rare bird, with only 97 made.
"Fewer than 100 of the PRS-5 exist and the reason I never made any more is because Zeno rejected more than 20% of the movements purchased from Poljot when they checked and regulated them. Felix Huber said it was uneconomic to buy more movements because of the work involved.
All owners can rest assured that the ones which escaped into the wild are fit for purpose.
Eddie"
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Plenty of vintage Smiths and JLC. some lovely watches shown here, Archimede, Hanhart and Longines, but most too big for a 16.5cm wrist
All I can offer up is this Allenby Firebird. Quite a large face on this, it keeps decent time given it's in need of a service but the power reserve is quite poor. An interesting font choice for the numerals, I've never seen anything quite like them on a watch face.
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That's more suitable for a wrist check thread.
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well, this thread took a twist
The joys of the English language.... "wound" or "wound" :o)
I saw the tithe and thought I’d post this fur a laugh but was beaten to it (more than once)!
Did you get to keep the cross?I saw the tithe and thought I’d post this fur a laugh but was beaten to it (more than once)!
Many moons ago I had a job where the Plasterers were cracking on, one day (strange guy only had one eye) there was a loud crash and yelping, I ran upstairs to see what had happened to find this guy hanging from the ceiling by is index finger. He drilled through it with a plasterboard screw, kicked out in pain and kicked over the ladder he was standing on, so he was just hanging there.
Once we stopped laughing we put the ladder up and unscrewed him.
A few days later he was using the site khazi when he fell over taking the portaloo with him. Poor sod was covered from head to to in poo and the blue stuff. On neither occasion did he go home, he just got back on to work (although he was by himself for the day after the 2nd incident) I never did ask him how he lost his eye…
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Ouch!!I saw the tithe and thought I’d post this fur a laugh but was beaten to it (more than once)!
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Lolz
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
I've got several hand winders and have moved on many others in the past.
Strangely enough, it didn’t hurt.
I took a screwdriver with me to A&E to remove it.
I wish there where more made.
I just had to wear this one these last few days after seeing the beauty on SC.
An absolutely perfect watch and strap combo.
Love it.
Duplicate - please ignore.
Smiths Navigator PRS-48
The Citizen was a couple of days ago, and the Lord Marvel today
A true classic and practical watch.
Never for sale.
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