Home made watch winder - Make your own

I looked for instructions on how to make one and didn't find anything clear enough or easy enough or cheap enough to justify NOT buying a cheap one, so I improvised AGAIN!!! Hope you like it! Sorry for poor sound quality - I got a cheap camera!! Hey, what did you expect?!?!

Cheers!
The Cheap Guy

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[harleyhubby]

and the watch I am winding with my home made winder is actually a Kinetic - uses a capacitor - can't be overwound like the spring models. I do acknowledge mainspring watches can be overwound, but that is not the case with the one in the video. And NO I do not say 24x7... I say I wind it for 24 hours! Learn to listen!!!!

[Berendjeee]

Be warned people, watchwinder are expensive for a reason.

They are programmed to pause every now and then, this guy leaves his selfmade winder on for 24/7 wich will cause the watch to overwind and eventually break.

So if you got an expensive watch you will not make such a machine anyway but my advise is to rather spend a 100 bucks on a descend winder then to make your own and fuck up your expensive watch.

[harleyhubby]

@Berendjeee Where does it say 24x7????????? Stop making s@#* up go spend a couple of hundred bucks and keep your fantasy yo yourself HATER

[Berendjeee]

@harleyhubby At 1:38 you say it my friend, and whats up with the defensiveness. But hey ignore my advice and overwind your cheap watch not my problem youre to ignorant to listen to people who know what they are talking about.

[harleyhubby]

@Berendjeee" this guy leaves his selfmade winder on for 24/7 " - I don’t know where you get this from. You made this up. Yes you leave a watch winding 24x7, yes it breaks but NO, I NEVER SAID TO DO IT NOR THAT I DID IT IN MY VIDEO. SEE THE VIDEO. SO why am I defensive? Because I don't like people saying lies about me. You call me ignorant? What do you call someone who makes things up? All your comment is based on a lie - that I wind or tell to wind 24/7. Get your facts straight. I'm done.

[ScottyBoy900Q]

This is great. Been contemplating building something similar myself. Gotta figure out something a bit smaller though.

[MrCaffeeshop]

You are a Fucking Genius man :D:D lol

[irene1ization]

@harleyhubby Spring wound watches can NOT be overwound!! Manual wind watches get to the end of the spring and that's it (unless you break the end off) and auto watches mainsprings are built to slip when fully wound. I'm a watchmaker and I (think) I know!

[nitinsharma1000]

@Berendjeee Even so the rotor on a watch doesnt have enough torque to overwind the watch. You can do it by turning the crown tho.

[Mercury2k]

Just buy a cheap plug-in timer and you have a custom programmable watch winder...easy.

[ZEBBI9]

Can a watch be over wound? In fact, there is no such thing as over-winding a watch. Watches are designed for active wear. Saying a watch can be over-wound is not totally correct. Can an active sportsman wearing a watch all year round over-winds his watch? Certainly not. All automatic watches have a built-in safety mechanism to prevent over-winding.

[ZEBBI9]

Thus, the common conception of "over-winding" should refer more to the wear and tear on the bearings of the watches rather than really over-winding the watch. All our watch-winder products has a build in program to avoid any such "over-winding".