A boring question !

[Aspirin]

A boring question, how long to walk or how many steps with an automatic watch to power it up from empty to fully power?

[WatchTimes]

All depends on the watch and how much you move your arms while walking.

[brandrea]

My understanding is that you need to give it a full wind to power it up fully, (so to speak).

The movement you are describing just keeps it going.

[Tools]

Originally Posted by Aspirin

A boring question, how long to walk or how many steps with an automatic watch to power it up from empty to fully power?

You can walk all day long and not give your watch any power.

The rotor needs to rotate around the movement, and that takes the wrist to rotate or move properly to cause the counterweight to do its job.

Typically, it takes from 600 to 800 rotations of the rotor to keep a watch at a steady state of wind - nothing added, nothing taken away.

If you wanted to power it up from a dead stop you would need to put in that 600 turns to get you 24 hrs, an additional 600 turns to get to top 48 hours of power reserve, then an additional number of turns that fills in the power you used while you were gyrating to get the rotor turned.

In other words, if you took 24 hrs movement to get the initial 600 turns, your net power would be zero.

[Old Expat Beast]

Originally Posted by brandrea

My understanding is that you need to give it a full wind to power it up fully, (so to speak).

The movement you are describing just keeps it going.

What about your SKX Brian?

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

What about your SKX Brian?

that one has no manual winding at all.

Bang for the buck, still my favourite watch and most worn


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[EEpro]

https://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=931829

[Calatrava r]

You should always give it 10 or more winds to get it going. Wearing from totally unwound not the best way to do it.

[Old Expat Beast]

Originally Posted by brandrea

that one has no manual winding at all.

Bang for the buck, still my favourite watch and most worn


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One of mine, too, and proof that a rotor alone will do the job

[brandrea]

Originally Posted by Old Expat Beast

One of mine, too, and proof that a rotor alone will do the job

Ah I see what you’re getting at Adam …


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