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AceTimer Mechanical Watch Winder

3/22/2013

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I bought a mechanical watch winder since I have a couple Seiko automatic watches and one with an ETA 2824-2 movement.  The winder will keep them running even when I am not wearing them.  I am pretty impressed with the winder so far, it was shipped triple boxed and has a locking cover with space for three additional watches below the winder.  It can also run on two D-cell batteries, but it does not have quite enough torque for two larger watches.  The full specs are here.  Typically winders will crap out after a year at most, so I will be very impressed if this lasts longer than that - though the quality does seem really good as far as the fit and finish.  For the price though, this is about third more than an Ebay special, time will tell if it was worth the premium.

Update 5/11/2013 (two months later) - I found that the winder had stopped today, my watches were wound down.  I cycled it and it began to move slowly so I turned it off again and let it stay off for a few minutes and turned it back on, and it seemed to work... now I am waiting for it to stop running.

Updated 5/24/2013 - It must have been some monkey in the wrench, it has been working OK since that glitch a few weeks ago.  I will keep an eye on it and write a review in another month or two.

Update 8/23/2013 - Well the winder did stop running around the end of June.  However AceTimer stands behind the winder with a 1 year warranty, and were great about fixing the problem.  Generally speaking, a winder won't last for years, but buying from a company which actually supports their product is the best I feel a consumer can do.  I have the winder back now (actual turn around time for the repair was about 2 weeks), and it is back to keeping my Seiko running on time. 

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Port Moody swingers link
10/2/2013 04:57:25 pm

Great site, was just reading and doing some work when I found this page

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Sidney link
6/15/2022 04:49:37 am

Hi nice readding your post

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Mike
6/16/2022 05:36:37 pm

Thanks, I was sorry to see that AceTimer's website seems to be down and google maps shows they are temporarily closed. I thought they were a good business, but possibly they got slammed by the pandemic.

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