What's with people shaking their Rolexes?

[Roll the Lex]

Originally Posted by Chewbacca

... first is dropping it in a airplane toilet.

Is it safe to drop a Rolex into an airplane toilet? Haven't searched the threads but pretty sure this topic hasn't been brought up before!

[El Cascarrabias]

Originally Posted by Abdullah71601

"The question I have is; if you wear your watch 23+ hours a day, such as I, do you ever have to wind it manually?"

Yes. The rotor keeps it wound. You should wind it 40 turns once a week.

Really?

Originally Posted by skprd13

Been wearing my sea-dweller for 8 months never had to hand wind once except from the beginning to get her started!

There ya go!

Pretty much my experience, too. I only wind if I haven't been wearing it for a bit. I sometimes swap out my SDc for my OP39 for awhile (less than 24 hours) and wind my SDc when I put it back on.

Before I bought the OP39 I never wound the SDc because I wore it 24/7.

[MTROIS]

Sometimes I 'shake' (rather a couple of fast rotations) my arm to get the watch to fall down a bit over my wrist bone because it had moved up my arm and got "stuck" there. Nothing to do with winding it...

[Bafflingbs]

Found this... Says wearing your watch everyday, will sufficiently keep your watch wound.
https://www.crownandcaliber.com/blog...rolex-accuracy

[SALTY]

A gentle but deliberate swirling motion is much preferred to shaking.

You might say I prefer my Rolex swirled not shaken.

[gyro]

The list
Don't shake babies
Don't shake bottles of nitroglycerin
Don't shake your booty after 60
Don't shake Rolexes
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM

[Matt C]

Originally Posted by Porter

I like to wear the watch bit loose and I'm quite active person! Also love when my little daughters come to me and hold the watch with their little hands like hell an play with it! Sometimes the watch gets tight on the medium forearm so I shake it to make it to go back to my wrist! Seems I shaking the watch but for different reasons!! :)

I do the same!


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[Old Expat Beast]

Rolex advice from 1948...

[Rolexdaydateii]

Dammit ! TRF is too interesting always something to read about something

[joe100]

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

Rolex advice from 1948...

Also from an era where they put Radium in beverages and thought lead-based paint over asbestos insulation was just a-okay. Haha

[LVSubmariner]

It's not smart

[Chewbacca]

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

Rolex advice from 1948...

six 1948 hrs is like 24 today... what with our active lifestyles and such.


good catch adam!

[sigguy]

Originally Posted by MTROIS

Sometimes I 'shake' (rather a couple of fast rotations) my arm to get the watch to fall down a bit over my wrist bone because it had moved up my arm and got "stuck" there. Nothing to do with winding it...

This!

[silverbullet818]

Well what about when you play golf with the watch? Isn't that the same as shaking it????

[sickened1]

I prefer shake 'n bake.

[Abdullah71601]

Originally Posted by Chewbacca

six 1948 hrs is like 24 today... what with our active lifestyles and such.


good catch adam!

People were different then...

[wolffram]

I have been wearing my sub 24/7 for the past 12 months without manual winding via the crown. I am probably less active than the average, but it's still going

[chucelli]

Originally Posted by joe100

You must be a shaker.

Shaking a dead watch doesn't do anything more than put a few minutes in the mainspring and starts the hairspring ticking. Your watch won't be as accurate with zero power in the main spring. It's the equivalent of putting a cup of gasoline in your car then coasting down hill all the way to work.

Have worn self winding watches for 20 years and have never needed to wind any of them.
Call me a shaker if that makes you feel somehow more intelligent.
All the comments such as stupid, knobhead, etc... I still havent heard anything about why that would be a detrimental way to start up a stopped watch. Having a background in engineering, i don't see any problems with moving the watch around to get it started. Sure, shaking it violently may not be so good, but i doubt that is what we are talking about. I would argue that the rotor is engineered for more rotations than the crown is made to be unscewed from the the tube , so it may be argued that simply moving the watch and letting the self winding system wind the watch is better than unscrewing the crown from the tube, winding it, and screwing the crown back onto the tube... But whatever.. if the TRF regulars say so, it must be true.

[Sublover2166]

Originally Posted by chucelli

Have worn self winding watches for 20 years and have never needed to wind any of them.
Call me a shaker if that makes you feel somehow more intelligent.
All the comments such as stupid, knobhead, etc... I still havent heard anything about why that would be a detrimental way to start up a stopped watch. Having a background in engineering, i don't see any problems with moving the watch around to get it started. Sure, shaking it violently may not be so good, but i doubt that is what we are talking about. I would argue that the rotor is engineered for more rotations than the crown is made to be unscewed from the the tube , so it may be argued that simply moving the watch and letting the self winding system wind the watch is better than unscrewing the crown from the tube, winding it, and screwing the crown back onto the tube... But whatever.. if the TRF regulars say so, it must be true.

Nowhere in a Rolex booklet that comes with a new watch tells you to shake the watch to wind it up! Last time I checked it says to unscrew the crown to the winding position and wind 40 full turns clockwise. Usually the movement starts to run but if not, a gentle swirling motion as you would a glass of wine will start it running. The winding rotor "maintains" the wind in the mainspring, it is not meant to fully wind up a mainspring that is fully unwound. I really don't see some folks made up "rationale" for doing what they do.

[kirksingleton]

I never wind mine as long as it is on my wrist.

[beer]

Originally Posted by Chewbacca

six 1948 hrs is like 24 today... what with our active lifestyles and such.


good catch adam!

thought exactly the same thing, considering the typical professions people would have back then etc

still very interesting and im sure still applies to those of us (edit--those of you) with active lifestyles!!!

[GB-man]

This reminds me of the drug dealer who tried to sell me a fugazi in time square when I was 16. He smacked it on my hand a few times trying to prove it was the real deal! I laughed and walked away.

[HogwldFLTR]

In truth, I leave mine on winders when not worn, wind and set for accuracy before placing them on my wrist. Occasionally I must admit to giving my wrist a few extra movements because I like too. So goes unreasonable habits...

[Dirt]

Originally Posted by Sublover2166

Nowhere in a Rolex booklet that comes with a new watch tells you to shake the watch to wind it up! Last time I checked it says to unscrew the crown to the winding position and wind 40 full turns clockwise. Usually the movement starts to run but if not, a gentle swirling motion as you would a glass of wine will start it running. The winding rotor "maintains" the wind in the mainspring, it is not meant to fully wind up a mainspring that is fully unwound. I really don't see some folks made up "rationale" for doing what they do.

Those directions are for the numties that have very little experience with watches.

I personally have never put 40 full turns on the winding crown to start any of my Rolex watches. It's totally superfluous to my needs.
I guarantee you that I can start my watch from a dead start and have it set to the correct time on my wrist and gone out the door, while you are still counting winds on your crown.

As previously mentioned in this thread, there were and currently still are automatic watches that require the swirling/rotational shaking technique to get then kick started. After starting one simply sets the time then puts the watch on to wear as normal without issue what so ever.
They have no winding crown.
It is not possible to even detect any variation in timekeeping from letting the natural movement of the wrist wind the watch up to full power.

Our Rolex watches have an extremely efficient bi-directional "self winding rotor".

Only the anal, heavily sedated, or near comatose individuals among us need to put 40 full turns on a daily worn Rolex watch unless they genuinely suspect there may be an issue with the self winding mechanism.

[Dirt]

Originally Posted by chucelli

Have worn self winding watches for 20 years and have never needed to wind any of them.
Call me a shaker if that makes you feel somehow more intelligent.
All the comments such as stupid, knobhead, etc... I still havent heard anything about why that would be a detrimental way to start up a stopped watch. Having a background in engineering, i don't see any problems with moving the watch around to get it started. Sure, shaking it violently may not be so good, but i doubt that is what we are talking about. I would argue that the rotor is engineered for more rotations than the crown is made to be unscewed from the the tube , so it may be argued that simply moving the watch and letting the self winding system wind the watch is better than unscrewing the crown from the tube, winding it, and screwing the crown back onto the tube... But whatever.. if the TRF regulars say so, it must be true.

You mean the self appointed regulators
Remember just because they say it is so, doesn't make it factual

[watchwatcher]

They don't now how to wind them?

[watchwatcher]

Originally Posted by Dirt

Only the anal, heavily sedated, or near comatose individuals among us need to put 40 full turns on a daily worn Rolex watch unless they genuinely suspect there may be an issue with the self winding mechanism.

Pretty harsh words. I predict you're not going to be making many friends here by generalizing anyone who winds their watch as anal, sedated, or comatose.

[Sublover2166]

Originally Posted by Dirt

Those directions are for the numties that have very little experience with watches.

I personally have never put 40 full turns on the winding crown to start any of my Rolex watches. It's totally superfluous to my needs.
I guarantee you that I can start my watch from a dead start and have it set to the correct time on my wrist and gone out the door, while you are still counting winds on your crown.

As previously mentioned in this thread, there were and currently still are automatic watches that require the swirling/rotational shaking technique to get then kick started. After starting one simply sets the time then puts the watch on to wear as normal without issue what so ever.
They have no winding crown.
It is not possible to even detect any variation in timekeeping from letting the natural movement of the wrist wind the watch up to full power.

Our Rolex watches have an extremely efficient bi-directional "self winding rotor".

Only the anal, heavily sedated, or near comatose individuals among us need to put 40 full turns on a daily worn Rolex watch unless they genuinely suspect there may be an issue with the self winding mechanism.

This thread does not deal with "other watches that need to get shaken". We are talking about Rolex here. And the tone of your post is a bit condescending.
So you obviously know more than Rolex themselves how to wind one of their watches since the directions in the booklet are for "numties".

[BLM2]

Nervous habbit.

Lee

[Cabaiguan]

Some of you have never owned old Seikos, I see. Lol.