HEY SQUIDWARD! I have a question about automatic watches!
I gather you have more than a couple of automatic watches... and I imagine you only wear one (or 2 at most) at a time... what about the ones that you aren't wearing? Do they just sit there dead most of the time, or do you keep them on one of those automated dealies that gently rocks your watch to wind it, or do you have some other system?
I just let them die. It only takes a few moments to fix the time and date (just time for my Momentum dive watch... no date).
Both are able to be wound to charge them, but a couple shakes is all it takes to get them going!
My Fossil "Pepsi" is completely fine for the use I have planned for it, but I do plan to keep trying to steal a "real" dive watch on ebay... and most of the watches in this style seem to be automatic. (I see quite a few Seiko automatics that have been rebuilt and sell for good prices.) For me an automatic isn't ideal because this watch will sit there for several days unused between trips to the beach or out on the lake. Obviously I don't want to find my watch dead when I want to use it. I'd like to snag a solar, but they're not nearly as common. Anyway, thinking about this issue made me wonder what you do with your automatics when they're not on your wrist.
-k
Watch out for all the Seiko “custom” watches on EBay. People are really into modding Seikos, but things don’t always go well when Average Joe decide to mess with a watch.
I would also stay away from the budget brand automatics. Not Seiko, they’re great budget movements... but Invicta, or those types of brands.
I know a dead watch seems to bother people... But, it’s literally 12 seconds to set the time. It’s a metaphor for rebirth, life anew, every time I reset my automatic watches!