Will it fit your watch?
Case size, bracelet stiffness and turns per day, the three things that decide whether a winder works for the watch you actually own.
Case diameter
Our wooden winders, Aeterna, Lumen, Frame and Classic, take any case up to 46 mm. That covers almost everything worn daily: a Submariner at 41 mm, a Royal Oak at 41 mm, a Speedmaster at 42 mm, a Datejust at 36 or 41.
The vaults, Cabine, Vault, Safe, Carbon and Cordoba, use XL clearance and take 56 mm and above. That is the range where a Panerai Luminor, a Richard Mille, a Hublot Big Bang or an Offshore Diver stops fitting in an ordinary winder.
Bracelet, not just the case
The number nobody publishes is the one that matters: how much room the cushion has to expand. A 40 mm case on a rigid steel bracelet needs more space than a 44 mm case on a leather strap.
Every cushion we ship is sprung, so it takes up the slack rather than forcing you to close the bracelet tighter than you would wear it. If the bracelet has to be squeezed shut, the winder is too small, that is when a rotor rubs the glass.
Turns per day, by manufacturer
These are the figures we set on the bench when you tell us what is going in. They are the settings that work for the great majority of calibres from each house, not official manufacturer data, so send us the reference and we check it before we ship.
When in doubt, go lower
A movement that is under-wound simply stops, and you wind it by hand. A movement that is over-wound for years puts unnecessary hours on the barrel and the lubricants.
Start at 650 turns a day and go up only if the watch loses time after a night off the winder. Every model we sell alternates rest and rotation cycles rather than turning continuously.
Watches a winder will not help
Quartz watches need a battery, not motion. Manual-wind movements have no rotor to spin, so a winder does nothing at all, the Classic chest is the right answer for those.
A perpetual calendar or an annual calendar is the strongest case for a winder: stopping means a jeweller reset rather than a five-minute correction.
Names shown for fitment only
The manufacturers listed on this page are not our brands and we are not affiliated with any of them. They appear so you can check that a winder suits a watch you already own. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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