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Originally Posted by SLS
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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I have a Versa winder that cost about $50 a few years ago, which is quiet, and works fine. I use it mainly for a Seiko that sometimes doesn't "make it through the night," with my amount of activity. My Rolex doesn't need the winder. I just let watches run down, if I'm not going to wear them for a few days, or weeks. Anyway, my inexpensive winder can be set to go CW, CCW, or alternating, and has four settings for turns/day from 350-1050.