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Old 12 August 2008, 04:51 PM   #2
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Short term, no not at all, long term, IMO yes! A winder is meant to similate wrist wear, and while the tube will slip into the barrel to prevent overwinding and damage to the main spring, the overwinding will never allow your watch to wind down, again not a problem. What you will expirience is that your watch will loose time on a winder that is over winding the watch. A watch with high amplitude will run slow, with low amplitude will run fast, a proper winder will allow the watch to expirience both of these and keep better time while off the wrist.

In the long run, any winder is just increasing the wear on the movement which will result in higher long term service costs. Don't believe me, next time you visit your watchmaker, ask him/her what king of winder they have at home!
~Scott
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