Watch Winder is 900 TPD but Rolex recommends 650 TPD ... is this a problem for me?

[Dougiebaby]

Thinking of picking up a Wolf Heritage watch winder that has a rating of 900 TPD (turns per day). Rolex recommends 650 TPD for my watches. Will this hurt my watches?

[Hub6152]

Originally Posted by Dougiebaby

Thinking of picking up a Wolf Heritage watch winder that has a rating of 900 TPD (turns per day). Rolex recommends 650 TPD for my watches. Will this hurt my watches?

Not unless you plan to never wear it and just leave it in the winder permanently. But why not but a winder that is programmable for exactly the 650 TPD?

[joli160]

No, why would it be ?

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Dougiebaby

Thinking of picking up a Wolf Heritage watch winder that has a rating of 900 TPD (turns per day). Rolex recommends 650 TPD for my watches. Will this hurt my watches?

Why buy a machine thing when you have two of the finest winders in the world attached to your arms called wrists. And this is what all Rolex watches were designed for, and not sat on some machine thing. But if you must buy one god knows why, unless you have lost the use of your fingers to wind your watches, yes that round thing on one side of the case is called the winding setting crown. And it must take all of 30 seconds to wind and set any modern Rolex, now you cannot overwind any Rolex. As when the mainspring is fully wound it just slips in the spring-barrel just like it would do on the wrist, and all Rolex automatic movements wind in both directions. For any non perpetual calendar watch or a watch with many many complications which no Rolex has, a watch winder is totally unnecessary. If you have a choice of watches and do not wear it every day, it is not real chore to reset it and wind it by hand. If you don't wear it every day you also reduce wear to the movement components, why waste that benefit by having it wound when it is not required to tell the time? .

[Harry-57]

You can't overwind a modern Rolex. If you don't want a programmable winder (Wolf make some nice ones), you could switch it off at night every third day, or an interval which suits you.

[teck21]

Mine runs at an odd 576 tpd and it has no trouble keeping my 70hr reserve watches up.

I think they do need a good wind on the wrist when they get removed for wearing for the day though.

I have given up on Sub 70hr watches, I dislike winding and setting my watches except on rare occasions.

I do enjoy giving my watches rest periods though.


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[Jocke]

Just check how long it takes for the winder to do 900TPD. Then you calculate how long it takes for it to make 650TPD and connect it to a timer with that time per day.

[Hub6152]

Originally Posted by Jocke

Just check how long it takes for the winder to do 900TPD. Then you calculate how long it takes for it to make 650TPD and connect it to a timer with that time per day.

Doesn’t work like that.

[SilverStar]

I had the same question so I contacted Wolf. Here is their response:

"Thank you for contacting WOLF - I can certainly help you with this.

The Heritage model pairs perfectly with your timepiece collection if they are require 650 TPD Bidirectional. Your winder requires to be on the 'C' setting as it will double the number of turns per day to 1,800.

Let me know if you have additional questions. "


I usually have 3 of my watches in rotation at time so each one never spends more than 3 or 4 days in a row on the winder. Also, the winder is programed not to run continuously.

[joli160]

The 650 is supposedly the minimum tpd to keep the watch charged. If the winder rotates more tpd it really doesn’t matter. Your winder will not damage your watch movement with it’s gentle turns and in the same time it will not overwind as mentioned already.

I have a winder which does 500 tpd and also that one keeps my watch perfectly charged.

It would be interesting to see the mathematics behind it but I think there is not so much value in the tpd. Many high end winders don’t even offer an option to change the tpd setting.