How many hours a day on wrist to keep it wound up?

[DocOc]

I suppose the answer varied from movement to movement - especially the new 3235 that has a seventy hour power reserve.

I suppose it also varies with your level of activity, but assuming ‘average’ activity:

How many hours a day must you wear your watch in order to maintain the winding so that you’re neither gaining nor losing power reserve.

[enjoythemusic]

Depends on your lifestyle. i guess if you used the Shake Weight a lot it would wind 'faster'.

[AkshayArgade]

Everyday around 12 hours.. all depends on level of activity. I wear mine 24/7. I never wind.

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[Dirt]

I can say definitively that it takes 8 hours.
Obviously it's an average time frame and one could easily throw a half hour variance either side at it.

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[kieselguhr]

I made a post about the difference between the amount of power generated by the rotor vs. manually winding the crown using the Tudor North flag power reserve. Not the most scientific experiment but you get the idea

Demonstrating winding crown vs rotor
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[envuks]

Originally Posted by kieselguhr

I made a post about the difference between the amount of power generated by the rotor vs. manually winding the crown using the Tudor North flag power reserve. Not the most scientific experiment but you get the idea

Demonstrating winding crown vs rotor
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Super cool post. Thanks for highlighting it


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[Aterth]

12 to 13 hours if you ask me

[Tools]

Originally Posted by DocOc

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How many hours a day must you wear your watch in order to maintain the winding so that you’re neither gaining nor losing power reserve.

It is not time on the wrist that winds your watch. If you are watching tv, or reading a good book, your watch will stop while you are wearing it after enough time passes.

It takes ~650 turns of the rotor within 24 hours to maintain static power in a Rolex.

If you are flipping/rotating your wrist every second, it would take only around 650 seconds of wear. If you flip your wrist every time that you turn the page of a book you are reading, it will take 650 pages, which you are unlikely to meet in a day.

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by Tools

It is not time on the wrist that winds your watch. If you are watching tv, or reading a good book, your watch will stop while you are wearing it after enough time passes.

It takes ~650 turns of the rotor within 24 hours to maintain static power in a Rolex.

If you are flipping/rotating your wrist every second, it would take only around 650 seconds of wear. If you flip your wrist every time that you turn the page of a book you are reading, it will take 650 pages, which you are unlikely to meet in a day.

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If you’re a young and healthy boy, not long...

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[Calatrava r]

Just read the time often and give your wrist a nice flip. I take a brisk walk in the mornings which does the full wind for the day.

[BlueRoman]

A couple of years ago I bought a cheap orient automatic because it had a power reserve dial so I could observe how much it was winding through the day. The indicator ran from 0-40hrs. On a Monday morning it would be dead and I’d give it a shake to get it stated then put it on and go to work and have a normal quiet day. I found that by Monday night when I took it off it had 20 hrs of wind. Overnight it would lose 10hrs and on the Tuesday wearing it would add another 20hrs taking it to 30hrs by Tuesday night and then on Wednesday it would be back to 20hrs and by Wednesday night it would be fully wound at 40hrs. So it would take 3 days of wearing it to get to full wind.
I have an Italian background and curiously discovered that if I talked a lot during the day my watch would wind up much faster 😂

[18078pres]

Originally Posted by jamesbondOO7

If you’re a young and healthy boy, not long...

lol

[aff1]

Originally Posted by kieselguhr

I made a post about the difference between the amount of power generated by the rotor vs. manually winding the crown using the Tudor North flag power reserve. Not the most scientific experiment but you get the idea

Demonstrating winding crown vs rotor
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/top...ink_source=app

This was informative. Thanks for sharing.

[brian628]

I've also wondered about this, so thank you for the information!

I have another observation. It seems to depend on the watch and, even more so, the manufacturer. And it isn't just how long to wind it, but also how long it takes to fully discharge its fully wound state.

By far, THE best winding watches I own are Girard-Perregauxs. Its not even close I'm not sure how they are designed or "lubricated" by the jewels, but based on my numerous tests (including the power meter and how long they keep running), wind in about 25% of the time of any Rolex I own.

The lone Rolex exception to this rule was my Daytona. After a full wind I could leave that one on the nightstand for a 2 or 3 days after a full day's wear and it would still be keeping time.

Any thoughts on this?

[turkeysub93]

24 hours a day

[padi56]

Originally Posted by brian628

I've also wondered about this, so thank you for the information!

I have another observation. It seems to depend on the watch and, even more so, the manufacturer. And it isn't just how long to wind it, but also how long it takes to fully discharge its fully wound state.

By far, THE best winding watches I own are Girard-Perregauxs. Its not even close I'm not sure how they are designed or "lubricated" by the jewels, but based on my numerous tests (including the power meter and how long they keep running), wind in about 25% of the time of any Rolex I own.

The lone Rolex exception to this rule was my Daytona. After a full wind I could leave that one on the nightstand for a 2 or 3 days after a full day's wear and it would still be keeping time.

Any thoughts on this?

Well first the Daytona has a longer mainspring, and ever since launch way back in 2000 has a power-reserve of around 70 plus hours off the wrist when fully manually wound up. Today with the new 32 series to gain the extra power-reserve they have made the spring-barrel much thinner than in the 31 series. But wearing any automatic watches to not wind the watch, its wrist activity that makes the winding pendulum swing what winds the watch. So before wearing best give watch a full manual wind, thats 40 plus crown turns clockwise only, as they only wind on the forward wind. And even when worn will do no harm whatsoever to give a full manual wind once a week or so, to keep mainspring at peak power-reserve.

[septantrionalis]

Originally Posted by AkshayArgade

Everyday around 12 hours.. all depends on level of activity. I wear mine 24/7. I never wind.

Same. I've been pretty consistent about wearing my watch 24/7 and I haven't had to wind it once the past year.

[csaltphoto]

FWIW here is my own personal experience. When I first got my sub I wound it once, didn't at all after that and it never stopped. It had a service and I wound it after that. So it was wound like twice in it's first year. I did notice it kept slightly better time when I was on vacation though and I attributed that to higher activity levels (hiking/swimming/diving). So now I top it off once a week.

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Originally Posted by jamesbondOO7

If you’re a young and healthy boy, not long...

If you're left or right handed.

[argyllarcade]

Originally Posted by jamesbondoo7

if you’re a young and healthy boy, not long...

lol

[HogwldFLTR]

Mine's on 24 hours a day except when it's not its turn in the rotation!!!

[Robf52]

Originally Posted by padi56

Well first the Daytona has a longer mainspring, and ever since launch way back in 2000 has a power-reserve of around 70 plus hours off the wrist when fully manually wound up. Today with the new 32 series to gain the extra power-reserve they have made the spring-barrel much thinner than in the 31 series. But wearing any automatic watches to not wind the watch, its wrist activity that makes the winding pendulum swing what winds the watch. So before wearing best give watch a full manual wind, thats 40 plus crown turns clockwise only, as they only wind on the forward wind. And even when worn will do no harm whatsoever to give a full manual wind once a week or so, to keep mainspring at peak power-reserve.

[CyclePath1]

I've also wondered the same thing with how long one needs to wear the watch because there are times that my watch goes dead overnight after wearing all day. I guess being a desk diver all day, I need to be more active.

[cronos]

Originally Posted by Tools

It is not time on the wrist that winds your watch. If you are watching tv, or reading a good book, your watch will stop while you are wearing it after enough time passes.

It takes ~650 turns of the rotor within 24 hours to maintain static power in a Rolex.

If you are flipping/rotating your wrist every second, it would take only around 650 seconds of wear. If you flip your wrist every time that you turn the page of a book you are reading, it will take 650 pages, which you are unlikely to meet in a day.

If you take a 30 minute walk you would swing each arm around 700 times.

[DJ2020]

Originally Posted by Tools

It is not time on the wrist that winds your watch. If you are watching tv, or reading a good book, your watch will stop while you are wearing it after enough time passes.

It takes ~650 turns of the rotor within 24 hours to maintain static power in a Rolex.

If you are flipping/rotating your wrist every second, it would take only around 650 seconds of wear. If you flip your wrist every time that you turn the page of a book you are reading, it will take 650 pages, which you are unlikely to meet in a day.

Excellent analogy!

[HogwldFLTR]

Originally Posted by DocOc

I suppose the answer varied from movement to movement - especially the new 3235 that has a seventy hour power reserve.

I suppose it also varies with your level of activity, but assuming ‘average’ activity:

How many hours a day must you wear your watch in order to maintain the winding so that you’re neither gaining nor losing power reserve.

Strangely, I'm an engineer and not a carpenter but mine get plenty of activity to the point that I've never had a watch stop on my wrist. I'm certain that when I'm sleeping wearing my watch it get minimal to no winding. Although the discussion of how much it takes to keep it going is interesting the real question is why worry about it. It's a simple thing, wear it and if it needs winding wind it. There's really not a whole lot more to it.

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