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Getting pretty chilly up here in the Midwest lately, but my everyday Seiko Laurel from the sixties seems to be holding up really well. There’s all this marketing on newer watch designs about how stable they perform under cold / heat, or how a particula...

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Getting pretty chilly up here in the Midwest lately, but my everyday Seiko Laurel from the sixties seems to be holding up really well. There’s all this marketing on newer watch designs about how stable they perform under cold / heat, or how a particular watch is designed for so-and-so to climb some cold mountain. have you ever had experience with mechanical watches not working right in extreme temperatures?

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this is a question for more experienced manual watches owners.

I noticed very different tactile sensations on older vs more modern manual watches.

older watches from the fifties or sixties, even ones with adequate power reserve and accuracy, seems t...

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this is a question for more experienced manual watches owners.

I noticed very different tactile sensations on older vs more modern manual watches.

older watches from the fifties or sixties, even ones with adequate power reserve and accuracy, seems to give more clickety-clickety-click when winding, while more recent watches seem to wind in a more continuous feeling.

Do you know why this is? Does this have any bearing on the health of the movement or is this just the way movements have…

Manual Winding hand feel?

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