One thing that people always confuse in watches is in winding: either automatic or manual. Let me get this straight: manual winding means we turn around the crown (or knob next to the case) to fill up its power reserve. Automatic winding is then easy to understand - the watch "automatically" fill up its power reserve whenever we are using it. There. It's quite simple right? Okay, once we've cleared it up it's time for a bit of digging into this matter. From the start, mechanical watch was all manual winding type. Then, watchmakers found out the way to make the watch automatically winding itself (or self-winding) around the 18th century. From then on, the quality of watches continue to increase year after year. In current time, almost all mechanical watches have automatic and manual winding capabilities. That was not the case previously as a watch could only have either one of it. But with current innovation in material and workmanship, it's feasible to incorporate both features into a normal watch case. One question that people will ask is why do we need to have manual winding in our watches? After all, automatic winding is much easier and don't require any extra effort in us (except we need to wear it enough which can be problematic for those with many watches.. LOL!). As this blog succinctly describe, manual winding a watch can do wonders to keep the accuracy of our watch in top notch condition. It will fill up the power reserve and keep the movement ticking at the best condition. So how do we manual wind our watch? It's quite simple actually (or you can read this article for the long version). First, hold the watch with both hands. It's important to NOT wind our watch while we are wearing it so that we don't accidentally use too much force and break the fragile crown stem. Then, slowly rotate the crown until you hear a faint gear screeching noise. The direction of rotation is depending on the type of movement your watch has. Keep track of how many rotation is it. You don't want to over-wind because some movement might not designed for excessive winding and can be broken due to it. So what's your winding experience? Do you like to wind your watch or you just prefer to use the automatic winding?
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