Overwinding Watch

[joebloggs]

Hello, I'm new to this watch game.

I have recently bought a PRS-29a. Simply question really. When winding up should I be winding it until it I can't wind any further, or does this risk damage?

Thanks,

Jamie

[Cat7]

Hi Jamie I have the same watch and I continue winding until I feel a change in the amount of resistance I feel then stop. I give the watch the same number of winds the same time every day and that seems to work for me, although I'm not saying that's 100% correct, but it works for me.nfrom memory its around 30 turns, but you will feel when the resistance increases, then I back off. Good luck, great watch all the best Paul.

[Normunds]

wind with your fingers until crown stops. no, you will not damage your watch if you do it with your fingers.

[Timelord]

Hi Jamie I have the same watch and I continue winding until I feel a change in the amount of resistance I feel then stop. I give the watch the same number of winds the same time every day and that seems to work for me, although I'm not saying that's 100% correct, but it works for me.nfrom memory its around 30 turns, but you will feel when the resistance increases, then I back off. Good luck, great watch all the best Paul.

This is good advice. I too count how many turns before the resistance mentioned above is experienced. This figure will be the number of turns required to wind the watch safely. It is possible to overbank a manual wind watch, but you would need to be pretty careless to do this. When watches are sold as "overwound" on e.g. eBay, it usually means that the movement is broken in some way.

[jason.humphrey.180]

Yep. I was always under the impression that it's near impossible to over-wind a watch. I think it's a term that is bandied about by people who have a mechanical watch that has stopped working (most likely for any other reason).
http://www.ablogtowatch.com/ask-watc...hanical-watch/

[joebloggs]

Thanks very much for all your time and posts.