Dear CF,
I need help to ease my mind.
I bought a watch winder last winter and have been using it for the last 6 month to keep my ingenieur 140 (cal 80111) ready to go at any time.
The winder is a Modalo 120 Magma and I have been using a program which turns clockwise for two minutes, then rests for six, then repeats (uninterrupted repetition)
Never had an issue, aside from watch slowing down some. I assume it is normal for a mechanical watch running more or less constantly.
The other day tough I noticed that the watch had stopped on the winder. Taking it off the winder had it running again. Upon winding it manually I clearly felt the mainspring was more or less fully wound.
After a few manual spins I had it laying still running for an insane 51h. When it had stopped running I felt the mainspring was easy to wind, thus excluding the idea that the watch somehow could have lost energy on the winder.
My questions to any thech-savvy enough are
- what could have caused this stop?
- can it have damaged the watch somehow or just caused normal wear and tear?
- How does the protection agains over winding work?
- will a full service fix whatever could have happened?
- does the cal 80111 wind both cw and ccw?
I would really appreciate some input here and preferably some that confirm nothing serious has happened:)
The watch is running smoothly now. In the future I will let it rest for 24h between 24h programs.
Best regards
Anton