This, dear friends, is an automatic watch winder. We learned of this extraordinary device from a couple we befriended aboard ship. If you, as I do, have self-winding watches you never wear because you have to wind and wind to get the day and date right, because you don't wear the watch often, this ingenious contraption is for you!
Watches, with their bands, are mounted on the black disk you see here. The disk then periodically rotates to keep the watches wound and moving up to date. Brilliantly simple! These two watches which I never used to wear (one is a Swiss Bucherer I received as a teenager) I can now wear whenever I want, without having to reset the day/date. Truly, we live in an age of marvels!
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That's something I will never need.
ReplyDeleteWhaaaaaaaaa. . . . ?
ReplyDeleteI never wear a watch anymore but I have several self-winding. I should have had one of these in the past when I would switch out my watches and always have to reset them. I have friends with watch collections who have a number of these.
ReplyDeleteWhy not simply get a watch that is battery powered? Far less moving parts so far less to go wrong. The magical box could then be used to exercise a pet hamster.
ReplyDeleteThe exercise wheel is a nifty idea. I do have battery powered watches; the issue was that certain watches of sentimental value were self-winding. I am, indeed, capable of sentiment, I just don't want that to be widely known.
DeleteIt will be nice to wear great watches and the history attached to them.
ReplyDeleteMy son has a watch winder for his Tag Heuer. He doesn't wear it that often but it holds a sentimental spot. He saved and saved for this first big purchase. He bought it on a family trip to Aruba (bargaining capabilities and no sales tax).
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