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How do you wind a pocket watch?
I'm thinking about buying a vintage pocket watch, but I don't really know much about winding them up properly. I read that you pull out the winding stem, then twist it until it gets fairly hard. Is that pretty much all there is to it? I'd hate to ruin a beautiful vintage timepiece.
One thing I don't get is, do you have to re-set the watch every day then? How long will the watch run once wound?
Thanks
Yes, you pull out the stem, then wind clockwise. Not too tight, you can break the spring or stretch it so it doesn't work as well.
Some pocket watches have 8 day movements, meaning you wind them once a week, like every Sunday night before you go to bed. But most (I think) had 1 day movements, meaning you wind them every day. It should be the same time every day because the watch runs slightly faster when it's wound tight and a little slower as the spring gets less tight, and you average these in setting the regulator (the speed adjustment). In other words, if you wound it once a day at 10:00 pm and set the regulator to keep good time, and then you started winding it 3 or 4 times a day, it would then run fast by maybe a few minutes a day.
Yes, most watches you reset them every day when you wind them. A really good mechanical pocket watch will be as good as a minute or two a day, which is lousy by today's standards. So you can set it by your $8 quartz watch. 8^) (Or your cellphone).
Another thing. The best pocket watches were made for railroad workers. 100 years ago every person who worked on a railroad had to have a very good watch. They are called 'railroad watches' (what else?) and one easy way to spot one is that they have numerals on them instead of Roman numerals, they have '1 2 3', etc. They were made by Hamilton, Elgin, Gruen, etc.
Also you should know that the watch companies often made only the movement, and jewelers would make the cases, so often the same watch was available in plain or fancy cases, in silver or gold-plated steel, or solid gold, in open-face cases or 'hunter' cases with a top that snapped closed. For different prices of course.