Hello everyone,
Since a few months I'm the proud owner of a IW371446, the Portugieser chrono with blue hands. In my perfectly biased opinion one of the most gorgeous watches there is.
I've got a question about winding the movement, however. My apologies is this has been discussed before.
I rotate the wrist time of my IWC with several other automatic watches. To keep the movement running I use either a Beco Boxy watchwinder or wind it daily manually.
Lately i noticed that the movement had stopped while the watch was in the watchwinder. After I few days of winding the watch manually I found that the movement had stopped again.
My other watches, an Omege and a Rolex have never stopped running while in their watchwinders. I've no experience with manually winding watches, so I'm not sure how many turns in takes to keep the watch running without wearing it. So far I've used 20-30 turns, but apparently this seems not enough. On the other hand, I don't want to overwind the watch, although it has a safety mechanism.
Long introduction to a few concrete questions:
How many turns should i use if I want to keep the watch running without wearing it?
Is it possible that this watch needs more movenement/turns in the watchwinder, compared to a submariner, for example?
Do I have reason to worry about a malfunction in the movement that causes the watch to stop?
Thanks in advance,
Jerôme
