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 Posted: Fri Dec 11th, 2009 11:12 am
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Nabco



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 Personally I wind all my manual wind mechanical watches until it stops, normally between 35 and 45 cranks......on the modern movements you don't need to worry about breaking anything, it will not let you overwind.

That said, you mentioned you also have some vintage...at one time I had a fairly large collection of railroad grade pocket watches as well as vintage wristwatches...my rule with those when winding was as soon as I started to feel any resistance i would stop to avoid any problems...

I'm sure if there are other opinions on this they will be posted