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Watch winders

  • 28-02-2020 10:44am
    #1
    Roycropper63
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    What's the general feeling about them?
    Can a kinetic be used in one as they in theory have a battery/storage device? Does anyone use them?


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  • #2
    pjdarcy
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    Roycropper63 wrote: »
    What's the general feeling about them?
    Can a kinetic be used in one as they in theory have a battery/storage device? Does anyone use them?

    I don't have one myself but from what I understand it's best to have them on a timer rather than have them running constantly.


  • #3
    blue5000
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    Roycropper63 wrote: »
    What's the general feeling about them?
    Can a kinetic be used in one as they in theory have a battery/storage device? Does anyone use them?

    I don't think so. Seen a suggestion to sit it on an electric toothbrush charger. Will have a look for a link.

    Edit ; https://forums.watchuseek.com/f21/charging-kinetic-toothbrush-charger-3980930.html

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    [Deleted User]
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    I don't think so. Seen a suggestion to sit it on an electric toothbrush charger. Will have a look for a link.

    Edit ; https://forums.watchuseek.com/f21/charging-kinetic-toothbrush-charger-3980930.html
    A watch winder will indeed charge a kinetic because a kinetic is similar to an automatic in terms of having a weighted rotor that always wants to hang down.

    However it's a fairly inefficient way to charge one and will of course add wear and tear to the mechanism. As you note, they can be induction-charged.

    I don't believe they were ever intended to be induction-charged but the mechanism lends itself to induction charging and even Seiko marketed an induction charger at one point. Various induction chargers (toothbrushes etc) seem to work fine though you may have to play around with the orientation of the watch. I would only use a very low-powered one personally, maybe try to find the specs of the Seiko one and don't exceed it.

    Personally I find kinetic watches to be an interesting area of quartz history but I would have to say that I am surprised that Seiko persist with it.


  • #5
    Alun
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    I have a couple of Seiko Kinetics that I rarely wear and I use a Philips Imageo tealight charger to charge mine. One responds really well and can be fully charged in just one overnight charge without any fuss, but the other, a larger Premier one is a bit slower and is a lot fussier about position and placement in the charger "wells".

    I also have a solar one, but that's easy to charge :)

    P.S. Tried a Braun toothbrush charger with no success at all by the way.


  • #6
    Alun
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    BTW in case anyone is tempted to try it, mobile phone wireless chargers don't appear to work at all.


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    Some wireless phone chargers look for a handshake before doing anything, which may be why they don't work. I'd also be wary of how powerful they are. That said I don't know the ins and outs of induction charging and what type of protective circuitry is inside the watch, so perhaps my caution is unjustified. But better safe than sorry. I would try to find the technical specs of the Seiko charger and compare it to whatever you're thinking of using.


  • #8
    Alun
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    You occasionally see those Seiko chargers appear on ebay and the like but they're usually quite pricey, usually in the $200 region.

    As I said, a Philips LED tealight charger works quite well, as mentioned in a lot of the forums. I happened to have a set of them, so didn't need to buy it separately, but again you can find them quite cheaply online.


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