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How do you set your watches?
Dear friends, one question I often have in my mind is: how do you set your watches?
Many of you have several watches, some of them you'll wear frequently, others will be on your wrists for special occasions. Do you keep all your watches on winders? Do you have your rituals to wind them every morning? Let them sit still and set the time when you take them out?
I keep my watches in a drawer and most of them are not running. I set the one I decide to wear today and take the time from my "master clock": a manual-wind Parmigiani Ionica with a power reserve of 8 days. This one is wound every weekend, and to serve its purpose, this one must be regulated to be right on time.
My "master time" watch
The next question: how do you set your watch?
When I set the time I always make sure that the minute hand is set correct relative to the seconds hand. I can't stand it if the minute hand points straight at the minute marker while the seconds hand stands at 30 sec. I know it 's nerdy, but I can't help it.
On the other hand, I usually don't care to set the date. I prefer watches without date function but the ones who have a date, I don't bother to set it. On my perpetual calendar though, I insist the day/date/month indicators must all be set - it's the purpose of a perpetual after all.
I'm curious to hear from you. Let me know your stories.
HAGWE
Daniel
How do you set your watches?
Dear friends, one question I often have in my mind is: how do you set your watches? Many of you have several watches, some of them you'll wear frequently, others will be on your wrists for special occasions. Do you keep all your watches on winders? Do you...
I keep one watch running on a winder.
It's a Rolex reference 1018, and I can just put it on whenever I wish. It is outrageously accurate, but I reset it every few months (or at least when there is a switch to or from Daylight Savings). The other watches stop between wearings, so I set them wh...
That's actually a curious habit we have in common, wanting to synchronize second and minute hands as accurately as possible...
Something I noticed over time though is that this appears to be done automatically by Patek watches (they catch up at most after a minute o two), while personally I have never noticed this, e.g., in a Rolex. That is, either I manually set up the two hands...
I'm curious about your observation that Pateks may sync their minute hands position to the seconds hand.
From a movement function standpoint it's not obvious to me that this function has been invented by Patek of any other manufacurer, so that would be a new (and useful) "complication" to me. Thanks, FabR, for sharing your comments! Daniel
Watch winder
Most f my watches are automatic and I keep them in a watch winder The manual ones I keep in a safe and wind them once a month regardless if I wear them or not Hope this helps
So you're a winder guy.
This certainly is the most convenient way of solving the problem, at least for automatic watches. Since you're a VC kind of collector, there is a nice winder they make since last year (or so I was told). Thanks, Jurry.
Thanks
I’ll check with my AD on the VC winder. I’ve one VC winder by t heard they discontinued them
Pretty much the same, except . . .
. . . for using time.gov as a reference when setting. Which reminds me, it's time to revolve a few back to the safe and take a few out. Art
Hi Art, thank you for your comments. Sometimes it feels funny to set these expensive watches, marketed to be the ultimate time machines, to the time provided by a free app, or an iPhone.
The kind of contagious illness we all share on this forum I guess... Have a great weekend! Daniel
setting, winding, running habits
I usually have 3-5 watches readily accessible in a drawer that get rotated over a week or two then that group gets changed out or "evolves". I no longer use winders as I feel they just hurry up the day the piece will need servicing. Relating to a car engi...
Thank you, indebtbutontime, for your detailed description.
If setting my perpetual wasn't such a nightmare I might go the same way as you do as I'm with you on the service interval caused by keeping watches on winders. Furthermore there is the space and practical issue of keeping 10-20 watches all on winders. PS ...
As a time reference...
I use a clock that is "Radio Wave Controlled / Auto Tuning". Since the clock syncs with the radio signal every hour it's close enough for me. I let my watches run down between using. To set a watch that has stopped I do the following: 01) Wind the watch 5...
Thanks, Casey, for sharing this.
A detailed and precise description of your routine as can be expected only in Japan! And I'm with you that perpetuals deserve a special treatment absolutely. Especially over year end. New year's eve is the time when I feel I have no choice but wearing my ...
Old times
That reminds me off the old times when you had to call a specific number and it would give you the exact time every 10 seconds Plus the hourly beep on the radio
I only wind the watch that i tend to wear that day . Set the time (and date etc ) .
Others i wind every month or so .
I use the Watchville App
As it has all the necessary information including the moon phases, I usually am picky when setting the watch I am wearing as the seconds and minutes have to go together and synchronized with the app, this can be very easy with some watches (GO chronometer...
Hi Jad, thank you for pointing out the Watchville App.
I just installed it and checked it out. The time display page is really usefull for setting watches, especially the astronomical complications.