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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
You know what got me into watches mostly? ( i was a watch guy since at age 6 I received for xmas one of the very first digital watches, black, with red numerals. So vintage that you actually had to press a button to see the time) But I never KNEW i was a watch guy, if that makes sense. I went through about 25 watches in the military that I never kept or paid attention to. (seiko divers, USMC issue watches, some special forces watches. ) Then I bought an Elgin for $1.00 at a garage sale. Hand wind. no strap. clean crystal. threw a leather strap on in and wore it for YEARS. then did a little research on it and put it on the "bay" well, come to find out through my due diligence on it, that it was the very FIRST watch ever certified railroad grade for the US GOV. long story short, it sold for over 300 and the guy who bought it thought he robbed me. Makes me sick to my stomach now that I am a full on watch addict. I would have kept that thing.