Question: from Anil
I have a Patek Worldtimer 5110', Breguet perpetual, Hublot big bang and a Lange and Sohne 1, I need a good watchinder....nothing fancy or showy. Which one would you recommend?
Answer:
Anil,
Thanks for the question, what an awesome collection!
The Patek World Time 5110 should require a programmable winder that gives at least 800 Turns Per Day in the Counter Clockwise Direction.
The Breguet Perpetual, as you call it,
could be any number of watches and either needs a programmable winder for at least 500 turns Clockwise
or
about 700 Turns in both directions,
depends on the caliber movement of your actual watch.
The Hublot Big Bang (one nice watch series!)
requires anything from Clockwise to Counter Clockwise to Both Directional turning
and from a low of 500 to a high of 900 Turns depending on which watch you have.
They make a huge variety of different watches with that name.
Very nice series very different movements in many.
And finally for your Alange & Soehne.
I have no information at all!
However probably it requires CW 800 TPD.(just an educated guess, but trial and error will not harm the watch, but the important thing is a winder that is programmable for directions.)
Four Winders tend to be by their nature expensive and fancy, so I can not recommend anything not so. Few people can afford 4 automatics and so their is no price pressure to make cheap 4 watch winders.
The cheaper winders on the market likely will not wind your expensive collection and may well do it harm since inexpensive winders tend to never stop.
You need a modern programmable winder that turns on and off and is off most of the time. It also needs to be of changing directions, the turns per day
could be fixed as high as 1,000 and not cause any problems, but I would go for programmable turns in addition to directional programmability.
My first pick for that amazing collection is the Buben and Zorweg Safemaster Winder.
URL is below:
http://www.watchcases.com/buben-zorweg-safe-master.html
If the Buben is too much money for you a little company called Rotolution makes a winder that can be set
as low as 500 turns which is perfect for your Breguet Perpetual.
URL is below:
http://www.watchcases.com/rotolution-watch-winder.html
Finally Wolf Designs makes a winder that will do a nice job for you. Maybe the best choice for price and progammability.
URL is below:
http://www.watchcases.com/winders-wolf4-watch.html
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