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Eilux Winders: (scroll down for product list)
Eilux Watch Winder "The Finest Inexpensive Watch Winder Made" Simply the Best Value in Watch Winding available! Eilux Winders (pronounced "Eye-Lux Winders")is a Hong Kong based company. Though politically Hong Kong is part of China in terms of the quality of products, Hong Kong is light years ahead of the mainland in quality as a rule, and the Eilux Watch Winders company is no exception. Hong Kong does not allow spitting on their streets and their public restrooms are cleaner than what you would find in the USA. Hong Kong stands for quality. Eilux also stands for affordable quality.
Eilux watch winders and components and accessories are protected by World Wide patents.
The Eilux company mission is stated as being: “To produce the finest quality watch winder in the world today."
I think they are close to achieving this goal. However recent changes to the winders Turns Per Day program makes Orbita a better choice for about 10% of watches. Rolex based watches will work great with Eilux, but some other more sophisticated watches will no longer be wound by the Eilux Winder. Why was this done?
I am not sure but I would suspect it is a simple answer.
Price. To compete with the cheap over supply of Chinese winders, they did away with the longer program of 1,300 TPD thus reducing the sophistication and lowering the price.
Eilux Watch Winders has its origins in the Japanese watch market and this is why they are light years ahead of other Chinese made watch winders.
Technical Details: All EILUX- "Everwell Industries" Deluxe (Eilux) Watch Winders are programmable for direction of turns. Each Winding Head is independently programmable for winding direction, so 3 different watches can be wound!
Factory preset at about 900 TPD (Turns Per Day) Bi-Directional winding. (This is the winding setting which is good for 80% of watches, those with Rolex type movements need a minimum of 600 Bi-Directional TPD. No worry about over winding, 900 turns will not hurt your watch.) Eilux watch winders will wind 95% of the watches available with accuracy and dependability. Only Orbita Watch Winders can do it better!
Power Supply: Two Choices are available for most Eilux Watch Winders. Battery Powered and Electrical Adapters.
With standard flash light style Alkaline Batteries you can expect from 6-8 months of battery life from your Eilux Winder. We recommend replacing with new batteries at least every "Day Lights Savings" adjustment, put the old batteries in the flashlight drawer. Most Inexpensive Watch Winders on the market do not get this amazing battery life, expect 3 months from cheap winders. Eilux Winders will usually last 6 months even with the heaviest watches!
If you use an adapter instead plug it into a surge protector!
Different Watches require different settings for winding direction. 3 settings exist 1.) CW: Clock Wise 2.) CCW:Counter Clock Wise 3.) BD: Bi-Directional or Both Directions: meaning it winds CW and then CCW.
All Eilux Winders are factory preset BD: Bi-directional winding. (Rolex and a majority of watches work on this setting, therefore it is the default setting.)
Note: The winder must be turned off to change the winding direction. You can not simply flip the switch. Nothing will happen if the switch is flipped while the unit is in the on position. This is to protect the unit from damage. Other winders are frequently broken when customers change directions while the engine is winding. This is like putting a car in reverse at high speed, which of course voids the warranty and breaks the unit all in one flick! Eilux thought this through and so you can not break your winder motor with this silly error. However resetting winding rotational direction requires reading the enclosed written directions (or remembering this sentence) and turning the unit off changing the setting and turning the unit back on. Simple, but critical.
The winder is motionless longer than it is moving. This is true of any high quality winder, the majority of the time the winder will be at rest. A red indicator light will indicate if the winder has power. The light will blink red when power is on but the unit is not in motion. It will burn solid red when the unit is in motion.
The basic 4 hour mode gives 900 TPD(Turns Per Day). Bi-Directionally: Meaning 450 Turns in CW and 450 Turns in CCW directions. This meets or exceeds the winding requirements for Rolex and most other Automatic Watches.
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