With this video, we're going to teach you how to wind any standard watch that is an
automatic.
Specifically we starting with the Rolex because of the fact that the Rolex has a screw down
crown.
This is something that a lot of folks do not understand when they very first get a Rolex
or their very first Rolex, this crown is screwed down against the body in order to keep water,
dust, dirt, other things out of the case.
It is called an oyster case because it is as tight as an oyster to keep water out of
the inside.
Now in order to wind your watch, unscrew the crown towards the six or towards you, just
like that, unscrew it until the crown pops away from the body of the watch.
You'll see the threads on that and when you want to test it to make sure you're in the
proper winding position in order to wind the watch manually, even though it is an automatic,
will continue to keep winding while it's on your wrist, but it will not be enough to be
able to keep up with the wind over specified periods of time.
We'll talk about that in just a second.
So we've unwound the crown, push on it just a little bit and there's a little bit
of a spring in it so you can see that.
You can see that whenever you want to wind the watch, you're going to turn that crown
50 times towards the 12th so in other words, towards the 12th in a clockwise fashion, if
you're looking at it from the side, it'll be in a clockwise position.
This way, that's how you wind the watch.
Now, you're going to want to do this when you very first picked up the watch.
When it's not running, a lot of times they're so sensitive.
When you pick the watch up, you'll notice that the seconds hand is actually moving,
but the watch is not wound.
Simply doing like this will not wind the watch.
Simply putting it on your wrist will not wind the watch.
Only turning the crown one, two, three, four, five, six times is not enough to wind the
watch.
Turn that crown 50 times.
I always tell folks a good range, 45 to 55 times because you don't turn that crown.
What about a half turn to three quarters of return when you do this, so therefore you're
really probably only turning to about 25 to 30 moving ahead.
Once you get that watch wound a good solid 50 times, I always check, make sure that that
crown is in.
That's the winding position.
Looking at the dial, it says this the 11th but it says it's 11 o'clock 1105 we don't
want to set that date until we check and make sure that that when that our hand goes around
the dial and it passes the 12 and if the date flips, we know that it was midnight.
A lot of people get confused because they don't see that date flip at midnight.
They see it flip at noon and they don't understand why.
It seems like their date is a day behind.
We passed the 12 that means it's noon.
It didn't flip from 11 to 12 I'm going to go ahead and roll this down around and I'm
going to let you see where it changes from the 11th to the 12th you see that now it's
midnight.
Always keep the hour hand in the bottom half of the dial.
That is the bottom half of the dial below the nine and the three before you set the
date because the date will engages at approximately nine o'clock at night and disengages at about
three o'clock in the morning.
If you try to set your date when that hour hand is on the top half of the dial in this
area, you can break the date wheel.
Do not do that.
Always check to make sure that the hour hands in the bottom of the dial for safety before
you advance the date.
In other words, if it's the 30th and there's not a 31st in the month and you're going to
the first, make sure that our hand is here before you do that, so now you can set the
time.
We're going to set it to two o'clock on the 12th I'm going to push that crown back in.
It's a springiness.
Pull it out.
One click, pull that one click.
Now you can set the date and you can set it to whatever date you need to set it to.
Now once you're done, you push that crown back in, push it in, and turn towards the
12th turn towards the 12th in all the one motion in towards the 12 screw that down until
it locks down against the case.
And boom, your watch is set.
It's wound the dates properly set.
The crown is against the case so that you're properly water resistance, uh, for the Rolex
watch.
And now you're ready to wear.
And that's how you said your Rolex watch or any watch that has a screw down crown that
sets similar to this.