absolute bollox (sorry dammit) but you can keep a auto in a drawer/cupboard for twenty years, give it a shake and it should still keep time.
OK, genuine opinions please gents. Because I would have thought that this ^ was closer to the truth. All that stuff about 'delicate lubricants inside an automatic congealing with time' is a bit pony surely? Helps to sell watch-winders, non?
I currently have 8 automatics (this is my entire collection, I only have automatics) and no winder. Most of them I wear at some point, none with heavily complex movements like perpetual calendar. 3 of them I hardly ever wear (like 2 or 3 times a year) but have never thought it inconvenient to set the new date/time on one that I want to wear that's stopped, it takes seconds.
Does anyone have any actual proof of automatics suffering from not being kept in a winder when not in use? I've also heard that winders can wear automatics artificially as the movement is so precisely repetitive and unlike the natural movement of being worn on a wrist...
OK, genuine opinions please gents. Because I would have thought that this ^ was closer to the truth. All that stuff about 'delicate lubricants inside an automatic congealing with time' is a bit pony surely? Helps to sell watch-winders, non?
I currently have 8 automatics (this is my entire collection, I only have automatics) and no winder. Most of them I wear at some point, none with heavily complex movements like perpetual calendar. 3 of them I hardly ever wear (like 2 or 3 times a year) but have never thought it inconvenient to set the new date/time on one that I want to wear that's stopped, it takes seconds.
Does anyone have any actual proof of automatics suffering from not being kept in a winder when not in use? I've also heard that winders can wear automatics artificially as the movement is so precisely repetitive and unlike the natural movement of being worn on a wrist...