What's with people shaking their Rolexes?

[T. Ferguson]

Originally Posted by Onikage

That's interesting because an automatic watch is essentially a manual wind with the addition of a rotor. Both have the same gears and pinions in operation when winding. Sounds like nonsense to me.

And manual winds can often be overwound.

[AF_Rob]

Originally Posted by BLM2

Nervous habbit.



Lee

I flick my wrist every time I strap on my watch to drop it to the base of my wrist.

I have no idea why I do it.

[Ruud Van Driver]

Originally Posted by Abdullah71601

Knotheads. They don't know how the watch works and think vigorously shaking it is the winding mechanism, not the crown.

"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.

Knotheads? What an awesome word!

[Cato]

Sometimes my watches rides high on my wrist and I have to shake it down to read the time when I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt. Or, I have to move it up if I want to cover it up.

[ppalasthira]

Sometimes I shake it to get it back into correct position. Sometimes the heavy watch head gravitates too much toward the 12 o clock.

[SeaAndSky]

I can't believe this thread is four pages long on this topic.

[madmax21]

Originally Posted by chucelli

why all the smug comments?

what is the problem with moving the watch around to start it after it has been sitting?
As one commenter already posted, it is faster than unscrewing the crown and winding it manually.

Yes I will agree that this will restart the watch however you still have to reset the time, so how can you do that but by unscrewing the crown so hand wind it while you do that sounds like a good idea no ?

[Dirt]

3 - 5 turns by hand is all that's required in the vast majority of cases.
Check the date change mechanism is correct.
Hack the movement if required to set the time exactly, then set date as necessary.
Job done.

Put watch on wrist and get on with life

[Dirt]

Originally Posted by CRM114

Gosh, never knew things were so complicated with all the shaking, tilting, swirling, whirling, worrying about gears and pinions.....

For decades maybe I've been doing it wrong. If my auto watch has run down and stopped, the time (date/day) needs to be set. That's a given unless you don't believe time marches on. To accomplish this, Rolex thoughtfully provided a crown.

The mainspring also needs to be wound, or the watch would just sit there, dead, limited to being right twice a day once per month. And guess what?...Rolex also provided a means for me to do this using the very same crown. Furthermore, they even included a clutch thingy in the crown winding mechanism to prevent over-winding. It's almost as if Rolex somehow knew people would wind their auto watches using the crown.

Call me crazy or lazy, but it's so easy to accomplish those 2 tasks if I'm forced to pull the crown out in order to set the time. And wouldn't you know it, after unscrewing the crown and pulling it out the winding function is the first position, before the setting position(s), almost as if Rolex is inviting/daring me to use it to wind the mainspring before setting the time and/or date!

So for decades before putting on a run-down auto watch to wear I've been using the "Wind, Set, and Forget" method. I believe I'll stick with using this easy, simple capability they just happened to provide and forgo any fancy techniques or worry about what to do if my watch runs down.

Actually there's no "clutch thingy" in the crown winding mechanism.

There is a clutch mechanism incorporated into the Spring Barrel assembly where the end of the Main Spring slips on the inside of the barrel and engages at its end with a number of detents diametrically opposed around the inside of the barrel.

[CRM114]

Originally Posted by Dirt

Actually there's no "clutch thingy" in the crown winding mechanism.

There is a clutch mechanism incorporated into the Spring Barrel assembly where the end of the Main Spring slips on the inside of the barrel and engages at its end with a number of detents diametrically opposed around the inside of the barrel.

Fair dinkum and even better, thanks. Barrels and springs and diametrically-opposed detents...whew, that's some real mechanical marvely stuff going on in there just so I can wind my watch without fear of blowing it's guts up!

[dabbotjordan]

You have never seen me on a dance floor, shake your groove thing! now that's some shaking!

[DCgator]

I like the variety of rationale used here as whether or nor to shake watc or whether manual winding is actually a necessity. I have an old Seiko diver that starts just with a couple of swirls. Once it gets going I set time and date. My Rolex I wind about 30-40 times if totally dead before use and set correct date and time.

[Aceldama]

Is it safe to shower with my Rolex?

[MTROIS]

Originally Posted by Aceldama

Is it safe to shower with my Rolex?

Well, as a matter of fact, not if you will be shaking it as you may trip and fall...............




Just kidding!! ;)

[Xenon]

Never shake a Rolex. Always wind it.

[Vinnee]

Winding them probably

[GMT Aviator]

Damn, lot of old threads re-surfacing lately. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing.

As we are here, I’ve learnt not to shake to restart a stopped watch. I wind it via the crown and if it hasn’t started by 15 turns of the crown, I give it the slightest tap on the side of a lug with my finger which usually starts it up right there, and then I wind the remaining 25 turns or so.

[serpentine009]

I shake. I clap. I’m not a knot head. Might even do that thing where you make espresso with your watch in the cup. Or pop a champagne cork. I also have an auto that can only be wound by shaking.

[NachoNeal]

Every time I wash my hands, which is frequently due to current covid-19 situation, I shake my hands pretty vigorously, before drying them off.
So I guess I'm a shaker.

[airchitect]

Ah the Seiko shuffle...... the move made famous by many a Turtle or Samurai owner that does not translate to Rolex and just makes you look like you don’t have a damn clue....

[chris242]

saw my friend do that not too long ago.. she pulled out her (28mm?) DJ out of her jewelry box and instead of winding it up she just shook it! i couldn’t watch...

i’ve also seen all these old threads pop up again. i think it’s a great thing, and it’s always interesting to read what fellow members thought of certain models (whether newly released or unknowingly soon discontinued)
another interesting point is reading peoples thoughts on what might happen next in the watch world, and what actually ended up happening..


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[htc8p]

I never did shake it. But once in a while i swirl it just to see if rotor is working smoothly

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[Ihatecheese]

How people use automatic watchs, post 113.