can you wind a Oyster Perpetual DateJust

[toleo]

Hello,
I am very new to the forum and to the Rolex world, I inherited a Oyster Perpetual DateJust from my father and I recently got it cleaned and polished through a jeweler for around $500 here in Pittsburgh. I am having a hard time keeping it running, I don't wear it everyday (maybe like 4 or 5 days a week), should I be shaking it to keep it running (which is what I was told) or should I be manually winding this watch and if so what are the proper steps to do this and how often?

Thanks for your help, the watch is very meaningful to me working or not but I obviously would love to have it working (on a side note, I was told by the jeweler the watch is prob 25-30 years old)

[padi56]

Originally Posted by toleo

Hello,
I am very new to the forum and to the Rolex world, I inherited a Oyster Perpetual DateJust from my father and I recently got it cleaned and polished through a jeweler for around $500 here in Pittsburgh. I am having a hard time keeping it running, I don't wear it everyday (maybe like 4 or 5 days a week), should I be shaking it to keep it running (which is what I was told) or should I be manually winding this watch and if so what are the proper steps to do this and how often?

Thanks for your help, the watch is very meaningful to me working or not but I obviously would love to have it working (on a side note, I was told by the jeweler the watch is prob 25-30 years old)

You can manually wind any Rolex oyster watch just unscrew the crown and wind around 35-40 full crown turns clockwise.Now that should give you a power reserve of around 35 to to 40 plus hours if not worn.Even when worn will do no harm to give your watch a full manual wind once a week.And no matter how much you turn the crown you cannot overwind it.