Rolex suitable watch winder

[Flintlock]

Hello

Hope you’re all well.

Would anyone be able to recommend a 2 or 4 watch winder on sale in the UK for a submariner and yacht master ii please.

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Thanks

John

[dpt.calvin]

Your wrist does a pretty good job!

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Flintlock

Hello

Hope you’re all well.

Would anyone be able to recommend a 2 or 4 watch winder on sale in the UK for a submariner and yacht master ii please.

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Thanks

John

The only winder any Rolex needs is the ones attached to your arms called wrists. I sometime wonder how the millions of Rolex watch owners managed before these watch winders, timegraphers etc, perhaps back then they just bought there watches to wear and enjoy. Now the best winders are wrist thats for sure, IMHO automatic watches are designed to be worn by people only, and not on a expensive box machine winder, and while on a machine its in the same position for hours, days or even weeks, months .Now most people move in a huge diversity of manners, causing a fairly even distribution of motion of the watches winding mechanism and escapement positions. Now because the watch winder thing is normally limited to a very small number of directions and types of movement normally just back and throe.

IMHO a badly designed winder could in theory damage a watch and cause wear from excessive and repetitive movement on the same plane and axis to the escapement wheel pinions. And today because the synthetic oils used in most modern watches including Rolex, and when properly serviced are not very prone to clotting or coagulating like the old mineral oils. So its not a problem to just rest a watch for a month or longer then just wind reset and go, must take all of 30 seconds to do.

But if stored for longer than a month I would recommend to just give them a small wind to keep the tiny amount of oil around the movement. Think of it this way if you had a choice of two watches one thats been on a winder for a few years. Or a watch that was new old stock unused unworn which one would you choose.I know which one I would choose, and it would not be the one sat a machine.

While there is no significant evidence that a good watch winder will either save or harm your watch. Over the many years of dealing with RSC Bexly and talking to the various watchmakers there, who did not recommend watch-winders for any of the Rolex line up. Its quite funny now that Rolex brought out a Rolex branded winder but made by a third party, its simple today many watch winders = big £££$$$€€ and huge profits. IMHO many watch-winders today have a high quality finish on the outside (to justify the extremely high price),but hiding some very cheaply mass-produced insides. .

[ltmgeller]

Wolf makes nice winders

[Dougiebaby]

Originally Posted by Flintlock

Hello

Hope you’re all well.

Would anyone be able to recommend a 2 or 4 watch winder on sale in the UK for a submariner and yacht master ii please.

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Thanks

John

My favorite:

https://youtu.be/f-eXrvJX26E


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[GrantD]

Any winder that can rotate between 650 - 1950 TPD will be suitable for all modern Rolex’s, some vintage watches require clockwise rotation only so bear this in mind if you are considering getting an older watch.

Motors for watch winders are not bespoke to manufacturers and many use the same internal components and others the cheapest. I have a £50 twin winder and a £350 pound 6 watch winder and am happy with both.

[Dirt]

Originally Posted by Flintlock

Hello

Hope you’re all well.

Would anyone be able to recommend a 2 or 4 watch winder on sale in the UK for a submariner and yacht master ii please.

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Thanks

John

Just make sure the settings can accommodate 650 turns per day minimum and you'll be set for life

[CoveWatch]

I'd say the best winders are your fingers

[BillA]

Originally Posted by CoveWatch

I'd say the best winders are your fingers

Agree.

[Marantz2270]

The Barrington winders look nice. I do t own one but I’d probably get one of those if I needed one.

[Marantz2270]

The Barrington winders look nice. I don’t own one but I’d probably get one of those if I needed one.

[Driver8]

I recommend Orbita.

Not dirt cheap, but not too expensive either. They’re very well built and the internals are all serviceable if anything untoward happens. For me, they’re much better quality than anything else in the similar price range.

[subby718]

Originally Posted by CoveWatch

I'd say the best winders are your fingers

this!

Connect with your watch, wind it yourself, winding a Rolex is a thing of beauty.

[Belinus]

I have a Barrington Winder for one watch. The plan was to buy more and link them up if I felt I needed more. It works well and looks nice and modern and is hand if I’m swapping between two watches but to be honest I don’t think I’d buy a winder if I was to do it again. I enjoy manually winding my watches and don’t feel it provides much value apart from explaining what it is to guests

[Harry-57]

Barrington look slick but are flaky and their multi watch winders have rather nasty friction holders with cushions that fall to bits in daily use. From what I've seen of their single winders, the design looks more sophisticated and watch friendly.

Wolf look slick but are a posh veneer over pretty nasty build quality. They run a couple of sales a year when you can get them for a considerable discount - 75% is possible. At that kind of discounted price, Wolf winders are a good buy. Their click-in cuffs can exert a considerable force on the bracelet if sized for smaller wrists.

A good cost effective compromise is the Boxy Winder. It's plastic fantastic but reliable, fairly compact and unpretentious. You can stack them on a common power supply. The cuffs are foam. The watches are held in the drums by friction which is not very sophisticated, but better built than Barrington cuffs.

I now use Swiss KubiK. I went for the Masterbox because they are very compact, programmable (which is not strictly needed), extremely well built, come in a variety of colours and finishes and can run on batteries for years, making them easy to stack in a safe. They do a slightly larger Starterbox which will wind a Rolex but is not programmable.

I hear Orbita are very good also.

[Roli4life]

Orbita works great.

But if I’m being honest, I really just use it as a glorified watch stand for whichever watches I’m using that week.

[hutch300]

Originally Posted by ltmgeller

Wolf makes nice winders

I am happy with my wolf winders

[Maiden]

Going on 8 years with a Wolf 3 slot winder. It’s been flawless.


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[garyk]

Originally Posted by Flintlock

Hello

Hope you’re all well.

Would anyone be able to recommend a 2 or 4 watch winder on sale in the UK for a submariner and yacht master ii please.

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Thanks

John

I do not like them.

[Kevin of Larchmont]

I have four Orbita winders which are great, two of them are five years old and still running on the original batteries. The other two haven’t been used in awhile. I only use winders intermittently when I want to keep something running. I use them a lot less than I imagined I would when I bought them. I had a bad experience with a Wolf winder before I bought Orbitas but I have two Wolf watch boxes that I really enjoy.

[Old Expat Beast]

For Rolex, pretty much any old winder is suitable but really unnecessary. Mostly made in China and rebranded.

[Flintlock]

Thanks everybody for your comments. Much appreciated.
John