How do you feel about screw-in crowns for manually wound movements?
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Neo Matik
Newly minted watch enthusiast (I got seriously interested in watches in late 2022). I aim to build a small collection (5-6) pieces over the course of the years. I'm mostly into Tudor & Seiko these day...
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6.70” / 17.02 cm
It is a requirement for divers so you don't accidentaly pull the crown out.
A screw in crown has almost always more drawbacks than benefits, with manual wind watches it is just one more thing that makes it worse.
It's my least favorite thing about my most favorite watch (Serica 4512).
Helps with water resistance (I think) which is good considering I tend to wash hands constantly and forget I'm wearing a watch and sometimes wash dishes with one on n
It's my least favorite thing about my most favorite watch (Serica 4512).
Funny. I have the same watch, and it's probably one of the things I look forward to, when grabbing it out of the watch box!
And while the movement is a bog-standard Soprod, it has this robustness about it, that I don't feel I have to baby it, when winding.
Funny. I have the same watch, and it's probably one of the things I look forward to, when grabbing it out of the watch box!
And while the movement is a bog-standard Soprod, it has this robustness about it, that I don't feel I have to baby it, when winding.
I do love winding it, it is one of the best feeling screw-downs I have (right up there with my DateJust) and it is a very minor niggle on a very good watch, but it's just kind of a "why?" thing on a field watch.
“It must have a screw down crown” is just us being internet-brained and spec chasing.
Screw down crowns are kind of a pain, I’ve probably taken many a wrist shot of my Alpinist forgetting to screw the crown back down.
Let’s be real, the most water resistance most of us desk divers will ever really need is swimming pool, not saturation diving. For me, it’s even less, it’s dishes and bathing kids.
On the occasions when I’ve put a diver on leather, I’ve taken the watch off before dishes and bathing children, but have worn much less water resistant watches when those watches were on bracelet, nato or rubber.
I think my Timex Galli is 50M resistant and I wore it everywhere when it was on its stock silicone strap.
Get a Panerai luminor and all problems are solve. Easier to use than even a push up and you still have 300m of water resistance
Helps with water resistance (I think) which is good considering I tend to wash hands constantly and forget I'm wearing a watch and sometimes wash dishes with one on n
Generally nope. It just makes it harder for you to accidentally pull out the crown, so it's mostly useful in situations where you might hit the watch on something in such a way that the crown would be pulled out.
Just stupid putting a scree down crown on a manually wound watch, for the obvious reasons stated by others. 🤯That's why Hamilton doesn't have one on the Khaki Field ...