Can you overwind

[R.mojo]

Hi

I already searched, but my English is pretty poor and im not to smart about how forums work : )

Daytona, Zenith

If you turn the crown out, and start to wind it manually.
Can overwind it? Cause some wheels to crack or something <---

[Tools]

You cannot overwind a self winding watch...

[R.mojo]

If it stop then? If i have it in my safe for a week?

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by R.mojo

Hi

I already searched, but my English is pretty poor and im not to smart about how forums work : )

Daytona, Zenith

If you turn the crown out, and start to wind it manually.
Can overwind it? Cause some wheels to crack or something <---

All modern day automatic watches are equipped with a slipping clutch mechanism which prevents overwinding of the watch.

So to answer your question, it is impossible to overwind the watch and no harm will come to it.

If it's been sitting inside the safe and is stopped, just give it a gentle shake first to start it up........and then give it around 40 turns of the crown.

JJ

[R.mojo]

Ty JJ ;)

[hsung]

I wind my vintage Rolex 15 times to wake it up, but believe others wind up to 20 times for their current models.

[Juggernaut]

If you listen carefully, you can hear a difference of the sound of the winding when you've wound it fully and then clutch mechanism kicks in as you continue to "over-wind". It starts to sound a bit more noisy, like rougher, but as we know there is no harm.

[dannyp]

We who sit here and debate all things Rolex are truly the minority of Rolex owners. When you make 1mm watches per year, you do need to make them idiot-proof, which is one thing Rolex has been very good at.

[Tim Wells]

You can't "over wind" any watch or clock for that matter, automatic or not. This is an old belief fostered by the general public's lack of understanding how a watch works.

When you wind a manual wind watch for instance, when it is fully wound it will simply stop turning. As common sense would dictate one would then stop trying to wind it when it puts up that resistance to ones efforts. It is possible by brute force to break a weak spring or a stem in a watch by trying to wind it more than it will allow, but not easy.

A guy at work took the 8 day clock out of his airplane and handed it to me when I came in yesterday saying that it was probably "overwound". Naturally it wasn't wound too tight (his boss is sometimes) but the balance would only move a little then quit because it hasn't been overhauled since the 60's probably and the oil on the pivots had long since evaporated to leave a gummy residue behind.

Won't take long to get this one running again...