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Which watch?

mad dog

the 🪨 🗒️ ✂️ champion
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@mad dog has a Glycine:

Yeppers...I have a Glycine Airman GMT 2000 that I purchased new as a new hire at the regionals back in the mid 1990s...I believe it was $200 - $300 at the time. It’s a quartz watch and unfortunately I left the battery in it when the battery was depleted...and the depleted battery leaked and rendered the movement inoperable. Lesson learned...don’t leave dead batteries in watches. I never had the movement replaced due to transitioning to mechanical watches several years ago.

The pic below is from the internet but it’s the same Glycine Airman GMT 2000 that I have...

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mad dog

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Reveille was at 0615 today...Speedy Tuesday...1964 and 2014 model years respectively...

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wink

War Hoover NFO.
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Hey @mad dog . Do you have any automatic watches? If so, do you have one of those fancy moving boxes/displays? For the winders, you have an obsessive compulsive routine to keep any wound and running? I always found it a hassle to reset a date, if it had them, when a watch ran down. I suppose you could wait until that date rolled around again and wind it then.
 

mad dog

the 🪨 🗒️ ✂️ champion
pilot
Contributor
Hey @mad dog . Do you have any automatic watches? If so, do you have one of those fancy moving boxes/displays? For the winders, you have an obsessive compulsive routine to keep any wound and running? I always found it a hassle to reset a date, if it had them, when a watch ran down. I suppose you could wait until that date rolled around again and wind it then.
Yeppers, yeppers, and yeppers. I have two Orbita winders. Like you said...they are handy if you don’t want to reset the day/date as well as the time. Pictured below on my Orbita winders are my 1986 Seiko 6309-7049 automatic [from the NASWF NEX] and 2016 Seiko SRP777K1 automatic...

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HAL Pilot

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I always found it a hassle to reset a date

Except for the bottom left watch, still have to reset dates for every month without 31 days. The bottom left has a 4 year perpetual calendar so just on February 29 every 4 years.

But I know where you're coming from. A good watch winder is damn expensive though.
 

HAL Pilot

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liability for over winding
Never seen or heard of a watch winder taking responsibility and I doubt they have any liability. No protections in their paperwork, just disclaimers denying any liability.

I modern self-winding automatic watch can't be overwound. The moving pieces won't let it.

Older ones, you can break the spring. But these are ones without the self-winding feature. A winder won't work with them anyway.
 
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