Watch Winder

[MK1 GIT]

Can anyone recommend me a watch winder. Looking around there's a massive variety in prices but not sure what you get for your money. I like the look of the ones on the Christopher Ward website along with the watches but wondered if anyone had other recommendations.

[Rapid rental]

Got to be Rapport for me. If you want one and can get to Birmingham on Sunday the Midland watch fair always has a dealer of them there and they are lots cheaper than a brand new one.

[Ikemi]

If you're looking for a budget watch winder, then I'd recommend the Time Tutelary Dual Vertical winder ... which surprisingly, has gone up in price!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Tutelary-Automatic-Ve...

It was £40, but is now £50. Decent bit of kit though; rotates in both directions, has 4 different timing settings, and each watch holder has a sprung-loaded back piece for differing bracelet/strap lengths It spins my weighty PO on a bracelet with no issues! The motors are fairly quiet, but if you're a light sleeper, I wouldn't have it on your bedside table.

[Fatrat]

I've got this one

http://www.hifi-tower.co.uk/Classic-Watch-Winder-D...

very impressed

[Dick Dastardly]

Rapid rental said:

Got to be Rapport for me. If you want one and can get to Birmingham on Sunday the Midland watch fair always has a dealer of them there and they are lots cheaper than a brand new one.

Some of the rapport ones are very well suited to a bachelor pad: http://www.rapportinternational.com/shop/catalog/1...

Check out that time capsule one. I think I saw it in GQ before and remember thinking how it's a bit OTT but if I had the money spare and didn't have a wife to decide how to spend it, then I'd probably be going for it.

[Shaw Tarse]

Ikemi said:

If you're looking for a budget watch winder, then I'd recommend the Time Tutelary Dual Vertical winder ... which surprisingly, has gone up in price!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Tutelary-Automatic-Ve...

It was £40, but is now £50. Decent bit of kit though; rotates in both directions, has 4 different timing settings, and each watch holder has a sprung-loaded back piece for differing bracelet/strap lengths It spins my weighty PO on a bracelet with no issues! The motors are fairly quiet, but if you're a light sleeper, I wouldn't have it on your bedside table.

This is what I bought thanks to PH.

[whoami]

I had a couple of the Rapport cabinets.

Very poor quality.

The motors lasted no time at all

They went back.

Crapport are to be avoided.

[MK1 GIT]

Cheers everyone for info.

[Debaser]

Looks like all the ones you've been recommended so far are electric. That's a like buying a quartz watch - just a boringly reliable machine. What you really need is a winder with a soul, a bit like a mechanical watch.

You need a manually wound watch winder for manually wound watches. If you're worried that sounds a bit crap the winder below has a 24 hour power reserve so you only need to wind it once a day, and it'll keep your mechanical watch ticking.

http://www.luxist.com/2009/05/07/irony-of-the-bern...

....or maybe not

[daveenty]

Debaser said:

Looks like all the ones you've been recommended so far are electric. That's a like buying a quartz watch - just a boringly reliable machine. What you really need is a winder with a soul, a bit like a mechanical watch.

You need a manually wound watch winder for manually wound watches. If you're worried that sounds a bit crap the winder below has a 24 hour power reserve so you only need to wind it once a day, and it'll keep your mechanical watch ticking.

http://www.luxist.com/2009/05/07/irony-of-the-bern...

....or maybe not

I've GOT to get one of those.