Winding a manual movement?!?!

[t8cmf]

I've just ordered an Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch and should receive it shortly. My watch collection only consists of automatics / Eco-Drives / etc as I do not own a manual wind mechanism which this watch has.

How often are you supposed to wind these mechanisms?

Is it possible to damage this particular watch by over winding or does it have some sort of protection feature to prevent this from happening?

How do you know when the watch is fully wound?

My big fear is breaking it by overwinding so any advice appreciated.

[bry1975]

You'll know when it's fully wound manuals don't have a slipping clutch like with automatic movements.

Probably best to wind at a set time like when you wake or go to bed.

[chris5150]

I take mine off at night and leave on the bathroom cabinet, shower shave & wind up watch routine works well in the morning, I never forget.
It is absolutley fine to wind the watch everyday, wind until the winder stops & then just back off half a turn.
I love manual wind watches, it sort of keeps you in touch with time when you have to wind them up everyday...
enjoy the watch, and lets see some pics when it arrives

[andytk]

t8cmf said:

Is it possible to damage this particular watch by over winding or does it have some sort of protection feature to prevent this from happening?

How do you know when the watch is fully wound?

My big fear is breaking it by overwinding so any advice appreciated.

I've had the spring ratchet fail repeatedly on a Precista PRS-5 which is manual wind only so I'm now a bit paranoid.

What I've done is to wind the watch up a certain number of turns on the crown (say 10 turns) to begin with and see how many hours of operation that gives you. You can then take it from there.

My PRS-5 has a 36 hour reserve (vintage design, so quite low) and I know that 12 complete turns of the crown give me about 27 hours of run time.

Now I just wind it every morning at the same time.

Andy

[lowdrag]

Having grown up when automatics (mostly) didn't exist I am I guess, astounded to see this question asked. I mean, when you think it is about fully wound you proceed gently, and when you buy the watch surely you proceed gently until you get to know it? Job done.