How To Save Watch Wear and Tear and Improve Service Life

I am amazed that I never see this advice as it is quite simple. We all know that modern timepiece lubricants is infinite and that the key to mechanical longevity is avoiding use, friction, shearing, temperature changes, moisture, women, dirt, other contamination, impacts, alcohol, magnetization, and the like.

The answer to the most banal of these is to simply use it less. But we mustn't be the type of bunghole that wouldst wear a watch without displaying the correct time. Those wankers are beneath contempt and likely illiterate and inbred, so there must be a better way.

It is simple. Only wind the watch as much as you need. Now the swifter reader will immediately grasp the concept and need no further elucidation, but the thicker may need it spelt out.

One will need to know two key pieces of information. How long do the watch run when fully run? How many turns do it take to get there from a dead stop? Thenst one must know how long they will need the watch to run, so that would be three key pieces of information.

Example:

It takes 13 turns to wind a watch with a 27 hour power reserve. You are going out to 7-11 to get beer, Twinkies, and a pack of Kools. For simplicity's sake, we will say that this shall take two hours.

First we will need to know the winds/hour. This can be obtained using the following equation:

x =y/z

where

x= the number of hours of power reserve to be obtained from a single crown revolution

y = number of crown revolutions needed to wind the watch fully

z= power reverse, in hours

Here that would be 27/13, which equals 2.076923077

Next we will determine the number of winds needed as follows using the following equation:

a=t * z

Here this would be the two hours multiplied by 2.076923077 which yields 4.153846154 turns.

Now one could be wasteful and approximate this as four and a quarter but multiplying the fractional amount by 360 degrees tells us that four complete turns and only 55.38461544 degrees* would suffice.

* I am not schooled enough to do radians with the hours and minutes or however that it done but perchance someone can expound on that in the comments.

In this way unnecessary winding and discharging of your timepieces can be achieved. Now if one has a self-winding watch, this will be wasted unless quadriplegic or otherwise incapacitated such that there normal motion will be insufficient to maintain time.

I am happy to share this tip with all and hope it saves on your watch service budget over the years of your life.