Turns until maximum wind

Hi All

Just a trivial question really.

I have a Portofino (laureus) and just interested in understanding what I am doing. I figure there is a point of winding the watch that it is at maximum wind and would then 'clutch off' so to speak. I wonder how many turns that would be?

To be pragmatic, I would guess everyone would wind the dial at different lengths due to a variety of factors (I think my soft office hands get around 60% of a full turn when I do the biggest wind I can) so if anyone does have an answer, please provide it in terms of 'number of full revolutions of the dial'.

:)

Well firstly, it's the crown you wind and not the dial.

A wind is defined as a backwards and forward or just forward motion, so we will assume that a wind is 50% or 180deg turn of the crown. I think it's impossible to turn the crown a full 360deg with the fingers alone. The most I've wound a watch is 60 turns at which point my fingers were tired and I gave up.

The owners manuals for automatics recommend 30 turns of the crown to get up to operating power. Any more is not necessary. I'm assuming you have an automatic watch. A manual wind watch will be wound until it stops.

Are you asking if the watch needs to be wound daily?

Just to clarify - Once wound to operating power, the automatic mechanism will keep the watch wound due to your activity. It should not be necessary to wind the watch again unless it stops due to being left off the wrist for about 40 hours or so.