The Watch Winding Industry.

This page has lots of information on the Watch Winder Industry with links out.

This page also has links at the bottom to many important watch manufacturer sites.

That said, the internet is a valuable source of information about watches. A good outbound link for someone interested in watches would be this excellent color diagram of a watch movement from the Page address http://www.bhi.co.uk/hints/watch.htm (British Horological Institute).

What is a watch winder?

A watch winder is a mechanical devise used to maintain the wind or power reserve "battery" on an Automatic watch. Basically there exist 2 types of watches, battery powered quartz watches and mechanical watches (or spring powered). (Automatic movement mechanical Watches are also called self winding or perpetual. These terms are usually written on the front.)

We sell Watch Winders and they are admittedly expensive, so if you are a cheap skate and mechanically inclined you might want to build your own. Here is a link to an example of a home made watch winder.

What is an automatic watch?

An automatic watch is a mechanical watch which winds by itself or automatically with the everyday movement of the wearers wrist. Automatic watches are mechanical watches and as such have winding stems, and can be wound with the stem. The automatic movement is simply a pendulum like device called a rotor which swings around and winds the mainspring of the watch and keeps time.

What is a mechanical watch?

Simply put a mechanical watch is a stem wound watch. Traditional mechanical watches require one to wind a stem every morning. A mechanical watch is a watch that operates mechanically as opposed to chemically with a battery. A mechanical watch uses springs and gears to store energy and move the hands of the watch over time as opposed to a quartz watch or other powered watch. A more sophisticated mechanical watch is the automatic watch. Rolex® is a popular brand of automatic watch they usually call their watches perpetual wind watches most people call automatics self winding.

What is an quartz watch? A quartz watch

is what most people think of today when they think of a watch. Basically a quartz watch uses a quartz crystal to keep time. Quartz watches are typically battery operated and are extremely accurate. Fine Swiss watches are a luxury item and typically these watches are mechanical or automatic movements not quartz, or battery powered movements.

Why buy a Swiss Automatic if a Quartz watch is the most accurate?

Accuracy is not the point entirely. Most people can function quite well with the least accurate watch. The reason people own automatic watches are very individual and it is a luxury item as is a watch winder. Why buy any luxury item? I know it is not because you "need it", it is more than that. No one "needs" an automatic watch and no one "needs a watch winder".

In order of general accuracy of watches from least accurate to most accurate: the mechanical hand wound watch, followed by the automatic Watch followed by quartz watches followed by atomic watches. (No not a misspelling atomic as in radioactive material, not automatic!) We can not help you with you Atomic watch. But if you are interested read about them here: The Cesium atomic clock is arguably the most accurate time keeping device made. Based on the cesium-133 atom an atomic watch would indeed be #1 for accuracy. However, the watches sold as atomic watches are usually radio controlled quartz watches which synchronize with the Atomic clock. No cesium inside these watches! The National Institute of Standards and Technology's radio signal keeps the time on these clocks and watches up to date.

Brief history of Automatic Watch winders and their use in the US.

Mechanical watches require one to wind a stem every morning. This is a pain to do and so Rolex® invented a nifty little pendulum device called a rotor which transfers the energy from the movement of your wrist into the winding spring inside the watch! This rotor swings around in a 360 degree arc and as it does so it winds a main spring which keeps the time. This is an Engineering marvel and was such a commercial success that people started buying multiple automatic watches and soon they found out, if you do not wear your watch it goes dead. People took their watches in for repairs. So an enterprising watch maker and jeweler invented a device to "wind" an automatic watch which he called a watch winder. Basically he put his watches on a modified drill and spun the automatic watches around stopping the drill every few hours to transfer the energy into the rotor, like what happens when the watch is worn. A few companies in Europe began to make these special jewelers tools and since they made so few of them these winders were expensive. Since they were tools they were ugly too. But they worked well. A watch repairman could repair 12 watches a day and not have to take time to wind each one. These tools (winders) were very robust and durable. The also could easily damage a fine watch if left on for too long, but since they never were it was not a problem.

For years these simple winders were popular with watch repair people for short term use. Soon enough watch winders found their way into the commercial retail market place first in Europe places like London, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland where most automatic watches were being built and sold (and collected). Japan with its high concentration of Engineers and Scientists developed an appetite for automatic watches even greater than Europeans. As a result watch winders became popular in Japan. A small company by the name of Everwell with offices located in Japan responded to this niche and started making watch winders for the Japanese market.

European companies have been making and selling high end winders for years (as mentioned, mostly for professional jewelers). In the late 1990's the internet came into prominence. The watch business is tied in this case to the history of computers. In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee proposed that a global hypertext space be created and wrote a little program he called worldwideweb. It became possible to sell trade and talk about vintage watches. More people became interested as the internet slowly grew to critical mass. The problem was it was relatively hard to find things online.

Then in 1996 2 young "kids" named Sergey Brin and Larry Page come up with a little search engine they eventually called Google. Google was not the first search engine, but it changed the internet forever! Since now finding a new watch was only a click away instead of a flight to a major world city. Many more dealers went online to buy, sell, trade and talk about their watches! This caused an explosion (or rebirth) in the popularity in the US of fine mechanical watches and automatics. In 1995 Chuck Agnoff retired from from Interroll Corporation and his wife gave him a new Rolex watch. In the late 1990's Chuck Agnoff became irritated with constantly having to reset his Rolex® watch. Resetting the time and date functions every time he left the watch sit for a few days. Chuck tinkered with a device to keep it wound, it worked so well he decided to start a second career, and like a great athlete came out of retirement to do it one more time! In 1997 at the age of 60 Mr. Agnoff founded Orbita corporation in Wilmington, North Carolina. (address: ORBITA CORPORATION, 1205 Culbreth Drive, Wilmington, North Carolina, 28405, USA) Do not confuse Orbita Watch Winders with Orbita Software Engineering Inc.(address: Orbita TechPark,1 Baisha Road ,Gangwan AVE, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. The 2 companies are unrelated aside from their name.) Do not confuse Orbita Watch Winders with Orbita Corporation(address: Orbital Sciences Corporation 21839 Atlantic Blvd Dulles, VA 20166.

ChucknAgnoff's new company began building and selling watch winders in the US. Orbita made high quality watch winders at more affordable prices. Not cheap, but cheaper and more important better than what existed! A high quality watch winder is a mechanical device and in small scale can not be built cheaply with any degree of quality control. Watch winders are only now slowly catching on in the US. Most people have never heard of such a thing as a "watch winder"! Just ask anyone in your office if they know what a Watch Winder is,and unless you work in an Engineering firm I doubt they will know! (Show them the back of your automatic, the rotor movement fascinates people and then please tell them to go online to www.WatchCases.com! We really appreciate word of mouth advertising, thank you!)

Chuck Agnoff the founder of Orbita Corporation took this often crude slightly overpriced device and made it better! Orbita basically single handily created the Watch Winder market in the US. His expansion internationaly woke up a sleepy industry. Orbita is now the largest single supplier of watchwinders in the world, many fine Swiss Watch Companies specifically recommend Orbita Winders. Plus Agnoff has associations with many watch companies. Like Ernst Benz Winder Most Watch makers do not mention winders and few even will tell you the winding requirements of their watches, few know the answer. Most automatic watches use the same rotor design found in Rolex®, which is a 360 degree turning rotor. Which means most automatics will wind bi-directionally or in both clockwise and counter clockwise directions. Some watch makers limit the ability of the Rotor to spin around and allow only uni-directional winding. The second most common winding direction is Clockwise rotation, and fewer still automatics need to be wound counter-clockwise. Most watches need to be wound from a minimum of 650 turns per day (in the case of Rolex®) to 800 TPD. These are minimum requirements and a watch can easily tolerate 2 to 3 times the minimum requirement. Why? Automatics have a slip mechanism that prevents over winding. This is not to say winding a watch 24x7 can not damage it. It simply means you can not over tighten the main spring, it only gets so tight. Over use and under use are both enemies of automatic watches. Many cheap copy cat winders have entered the market since Orbita pushed the envelope of the watch winding market. Orbita makes winders in the same quality range as Underwood Winders and Scatola Del Tempo Winders, but at a much more affordable price point. Copy Cat companies saw Orbita price strategy and assumed that was the secret, they are wrong it is a combination of lowest price possibe while producing at the highest quality possible. A product with a 10 year life expectancy and trouble free for that entire time!

Turning crude jewelers tools into fantastic winder cases with sophisticated movements was not a cheap proposition. Doing it in a way that would not risk damage to these expensive watches was also a challenge. Orbita handled the challenges with flying colors! To specifically program a winder to wind your expensive watches you should choose Orbita Watch Winders or any of the other high quality watch winders we offer.

If you have a cheap fake Chinese made automatic watch, do not bother with a good winder. Get a watch winder of the same quality level as the watch you are going to put into it. To learn how to choose an automatic watch winder. Go to our page How to Choose a Watch Winder.

Some other enterprising people were doing similar work building winders in Germany, Austria, Japan and London and lately in China. The only problem with the winder market is it is extremely small. It is not a commodity market like watches and few winders are needed. The cheap china made products have tended to have artificially pushed down their price. They made too many for the demand thinking price was king. Wrong! I think the majority of Chinese made winders will go out of business since the products produced simply do not work and since they are selling product often at a loss they will soon give up. The market is simply to small and the winder custmer to sophisticated to get fooled by cheap prices for long! Please do not take this comment as over confidence like the automobile industry viewed Japan's entry into the auto market. The difference was Honda and Toyota made smaller cheaper, better! Orbita made, smaller cheaper better winders & this is why Orbita took the lead away from some solid companies and maintains their lead despite the steep price competition from cheap products. Plus the luxury market simply does not buy cheap stuff for long! Comparing winders head to head based on price is as big a mistake as buying a watch based on price. Comparing two of the same exact watch? Well buy the cheaper one of course! But comparing a Rolex® and a fake Rolex®? Well, I hope you would agree the Real Rolex® is worth every penny compared to the fakes. (Substitute the name of any quality watch brand Breitling, Patek, Tag, Panerai. This level of watch is different than the low end watches.) If you do not agree, then you should leave this website, it will be a waste of your time. We simply do not sell cheap or fake products and the high quality products we do sell are priced accordingly.

Japan probably has the most watch winders in use of any country in the world! Why? Well, automatic mechanical watches appeal to business people, scientists and engineers and Japan has the highest concentration of scientists and engineers in the world!

An automatic watch stores kinetic energy from the movement of your wrist in basically a coiled spring inside the watch. This is the same type of spring that mechanical watches use to store power, but a mechanical watch requires you to wind a stem each and every morning. Automatic Watches do this when you move your wrist automatically. Hence the name automatic, or self winding watches! The problem with these mechanical marvels is if you do not wear or wind the watch then the stored energy is eventually used up and the watch stops and must be reset in order for you to wear it again. Rolex® is the most common automatic watch in the mass market. (Also known as a Self-Winding Watch.) Other names commonly used for this Watch Winding Device are Watch Winding Cases or Watch Winding Boxes, Watch Rotors, Watch Rotators, or simply Winder.

We are experts on automatic watch winders and watch cases.

Automatic watches require constant wearing or they need to be placed in a watch winder box to maintain the winding and settings of the automatic watch. Watch Winders are a great gift for someone who owns 1 or more automatic watches. Automatic Watches are mechanical marvels and a watch winder allows you to own more than one such marvel and not worry about ever needing to reset your watch or replace a watch battery!

Owners of Rolex® watches are the most frequent purchasers of our winders; however our winders work for winding all brands of automatic watches.

Watch Cases.com is a Top rated Yahoo! store for Watch Winders and excellent customer service. Do not take our word for it go read about us. Read what our customers have to say about us. Testimonials Good and Bad for Watch Cases.com.

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The following are the Industry recognized High End quality Winders and Winder motor manufacturers. Most companies making motors for the quality winders make motors of the grade that are used in the NASA space mission. In fact the Mars mission rover is powered by one of these motors! What's inside really does matter! Judge books and models by their cover if you like, but do not judge winders by their covers!

Austria, Italy, Germany and the USA are represented in this list. We carry the top 3 brands. Orbita, Elma and Buben & Zorweg.

Bergeon Winder Motors of Switzerland www.bergeon.ch

Buben & Zoerweg Winders of Austria www.buben-zoerweg.com

Elma Winders of Germany www.elma-ultrasonic.com

Faulhaber Motors in Croglio Switzerland www.minimotor.ch.

Swiss made Maxon Motors used in some watch winders. www.maxonmotor.com

MTE Winder Motors of Germany www.mte-motors.de.

Orbita Winders USA/Austria www.orbita.com

Scatola Del Tempo Winders of Italy www.scatoladeltempo.com

Underwood Winders of Italy www.underwood-london.com

Alessandro Rustioni-UNDERWOOD(London) a Rustioni Company--Winders and Cases www.underwoodlondonltd.com.

A good biased source for additional reading and information on watch winders is Orbitas FAQ page. But a better biased opinion can be found on our website How to Choose a Watch Winder yes we are biased, but our bias is based on facts and solid products, not simply on a desire to sell you one of our products. We want to sell you a quality product and we need you to tell others about us! We are a small business and rely on word of mouth promotion. Your help is much appreciated. Maybe you landed here accidently, were you looking for legal cases to watch?

If you are an attorney or are just interested in watching legal cases and were looking for Litigation related cases or cases to watch try here Judicial Watch-Judicial Watch Case www.judicialwatch.org or try here:Watch--Cases www.transgenderlaw.org/cases/ I know it is a tad bit off subject, but a surprising number of Attorneys collect Automatic Watches. Maybe there is an important case you are watching.



We have the Watch Winder or Watch Case to hold your watch no matter the brand:

Ever wonder who owns who in the watch business? If you own one of these watch brands we have the watch case to hold it.



Watch Cases.com is a Top rated Yahoo! store for customer service. Do not take our word for it go read about us. Read what our customers have to say about us.

Testimonials Good and Bad for Watch Cases.com.

We sell Watch Cases as in watch boxes and winders, but we do not sell the metallic Watch Cases that a jeweler or watch maker uses to house the watch movements and crystal etc. for a watch. If this is what you were looking for one of the best websites for reading up on these type Watch Cases is the Elgin page written by Wayne Schlitt . If you have an old scratched & beat-up watch case, before you toss it out read how to open watch cases using a watch case tool or eyeglasses case tools to do the job. and identify serial numbers on a watch case. When you realize this old watch is valuable buy another Watch Case from us to store it in! If you are your self a jeweler and wanted a good source for watch cases to build your own watches from check this site out. It is a bit sloppy, but is a rather inclusive list. I provide links as an aid in my customers searching and surfing the web, I do not warrant the usability of any link nor the content of the site. I have no idea if these watch cases products are legitimate. I am not endorsing them, just showing you where to go online...

We refer to our Boxes and Cases as Watch Cases and actually Watch Jewelry Boxes might be a better more descriptive term. Calling our main product watch jewelry boxes would avoid the confusion a true watch enthusiast may have. Alas the English language is full of confusing double meaning words. If you wanted to read about the metallic body case of a Seiko watch of a fine watch or about restoring a watch case. Click here and read how Rob Berkavicius of Australia restored his Tissot Astrolon mechanical watch (see insides open case). Refurbish a watch case to its original glory! Get Kevin James of Syracuse to Restore the watch case for you. If you would like to purchase a vintage watch or simply read about vintage watches I would suggest the a resource website : www.finertimes.com. Read what he has to say. Decide for yourself if you buy there, but his writing is interesting.

We have an extensive line of Watch Storage and Watch Display Cases and Storage Boxes for Pens and we also have a limited supply of Pocket Watch Boxes. We are experts on Automatic Watch Winders. Barry Goldberg is an expert on Pocket Watches and has written many books. If you are a rail road pocket watch collector go here to buy a pocket watch collecting guide and source book.

We have more information about Watch Winders deeper in this the website, but have a few tidbits here for you plus links to quality winders.

What is a watch winder?

A watch winder is a mechanical devise used to maintain the wind or power reserve "battery" on an Automatic watch. Basically there exist 2 types of watches, battery powered quartz watches and mechanical watches (or spring powered). (Automatic movement mechanical Watches are also called self winding or perpetual. These terms are usually written on the front.)

What is an automatic watch?

An automatic watch is a mechanical watch which winds by itself or automatically with the everyday movement of the wearers wrist. Automatic watches are mechanical watches and as such have winding stems, and can be wound with the stem. The automatic movement is simply a pendulum like device called a rotor which swings around and winds the mainspring of the watch and keeps time.

What is a mechanical watch?

Simply put a mechanical watch is a stem wound watch. Traditional mechanical watches require one to wind a stem every morning. A mechanical watch is a watch that operates mechanically as opposed to chemically with a battery. A mechanical watch uses springs and gears to store energy and move the hands of the watch over time as opposed to a quartz watch or other powered watch. A more sophisticated mechanical watch is the automatic watch. Rolex® is a popular brand of automatic watch they usually call their watches perpetual wind watches most people call automatics self winding. View a nice Collection of Swiss Mechanical Watches. (Mostly Watch Cases).

What is an quartz watch? A quartz watch

is what most people think of today when they think of a watch. Basically a quartz watch uses a quartz crystal to keep time. Quartz watches are typically battery operated and are extremely accurate. Fine Swiss watches are a luxury item and typically these watches are mechanical or automatic movements not quartz, or battery powered movements.

Why buy a Swiss Automatic if a Quartz watch is the most accurate?

Accuracy is not the point entirely. Most people can function quite well with the least accurate watch. The reason people own automatic watches are very individual and it is a luxury item as is a watch winder. Why buy any luxury item? I know it is not because you "need it", it is more than that. No one "needs" an automatic watch and no one "needs a watch winder".

In order of general accuracy of watches from least accurate to most accurate: the mechanical hand wound watch, followed by the automatic Watch followed by quartz watches followed by atomic watches. (No not a misspelling atomic as in radioactive material, not automatic!) We can not help you with you Atomic watch. But if you are interested read about them here: The Cesium atomic clock is arguably the most accurate time keeping device made. Based on the cesium-133 atom an atomic watch would indeed be #1 for accuracy. However, the watches sold as atomic watches are usually radio controlled quartz watches which synchronize with the Atomic clock. No cesium inside these watches! The National Institute of Standards and Technology's radio signal keeps the time on these clocks and watches up to date.

Brief history of Automatic Watch winders and their use in the US.

Mechanical watches require one to wind a stem every morning. This is a pain to do and so Rolex® invented a nifty little pendulum device called a rotor which transfers the energy from the movement of your wrist into the winding spring inside the watch! This rotor swings around in a 360 degree arc and as it does so it winds a main spring which keeps the time. This is an Engineering marvel and was such a commercial success that people started buying multiple automatic watches and soon they found out, if you do not wear your watch it goes dead. People took their watches in for repairs. So an enterprising watch maker and jeweler invented a device to "wind" an automatic watch which he called a watch winder. Basically he put his watches on a modified drill and spun the automatic watches around stopping the drill every few hours to transfer the energy into the rotor, like what happens when the watch is worn. A few companies in Europe began to make these special jewelers tools and since they made so few of them these winders were expensive. Since they were tools they were ugly too. But they worked well. A watch repairman could repair 12 watches a day and not have to take time to wind each one. These tools (winders) were very robust and durable. The also could easily damage a fine watch if left on for too long, but since they never were it was not a problem.

For years these simple winders were popular with watch repair people for short term use. Soon enough watch winders found their way into the commercial retail market place first in Europe places like London, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland where most automatic watches were being built and sold (and collected). Japan with its high concentration of Engineers and Scientists developed an appetite for automatic watches even greater than Europeans. As a result watch winders became popular in Japan. A small company by the name of Everwell with offices located in Japan responded to this niche and started making watch winders for the Japanese market.

European companies have been making and selling high end winders for years (as mentioned, mostly for professional jewelers). In the late 1990's the internet came into prominence. The watch business is tied in this case to the history of computers. In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee proposed that a global hypertext space be created and wrote a little program he called worldwideweb. It became possible to sell trade and talk about vintage watches. More people became interested as the internet slowly grew to critical mass. The problem was it was relatively hard to find things online.

Then in 1996 2 young "kids" named Sergey Brin and Larry Page come up with a little search engine they eventually called Google. Google was not the first search engine, but it changed the internet forever! Since now finding a new watch was only a click away instead of a flight to a major world city. Many more dealers went online to buy, sell, trade and talk about their watches! This caused an explosion (or rebirth) in the popularity in the US of fine mechanical watches and automatics. In the late 1990's Chuck Agnoff became irritated with constantly having to reset his Rolex® watch time and date functions every time he left the watch sit for a few days. In 1995 Chuck Agnoff retired from from Interroll Corporation so in his free time Chuck tinkered with a device to keep it wound, it worked so well he decided to start a second career, and like a great athlete came out of retirement to do it one more time! In 1997 at the age of 60 Mr. Agnoff founded Orbita corporation in Wilmington, North Carolina. (address: ORBITA CORPORATION, 1205 Culbreth Drive, Wilmington, North Carolina, 28405, USA) Do not confuse Orbita Watch Winders with Orbita Corporation, Orbita Software Engineering Inc. (address: Orbita TechPark,1 Baisha Road ,Gangwan AVE, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. The 2 companies are unrelated aside from their name.) Do not confuse Orbita Watch Winders with Orbita Corporation (address: Orbital Sciences Corporation 21839 Atlantic Blvd Dulles, VA 20166)

Chuck Agnoff's new company began building and selling watch winders in the US. Orbita made high quality watch winders at more affordable prices. Not cheap, but cheaper and more important better than what existed! A high quality watch winder is a mechanical device and in small scale can not be built cheaply with any degree of quality control. Watch winders are only now slowly catching on in the US. Most people have never heard of such a thing as a "watch winder"! Just ask anyone in your office if they know what a Watch Winder is,and unless you work in an Engineering firm I doubt they will know! (Show them the back of your automatic, the rotor movement fascinates people and then please tell them to go online to www.WatchCases.com! We really appreciate word of mouth advertising, thank you!)

Chuck Agnoff the founder of Orbita Corporation took this often crude slightly overpriced device and made it better! Orbita basically single handily created the Watch Winder market in the US. His expansion internationaly woke up a sleepy industry. Orbita is now the largest single supplier of watchwinders in the world, many fine Swiss Watch Companies specifically recommend Orbita Winders. Plus Agnoff has associations with many watch companies. Like Ernst Benz Winder Most Watch makers do not mention winders and few even will tell you the winding requirements of their watches, few know the answer. Most automatic watches use the same rotor design found in Rolex®, which is a 360 degree turning rotor. Which means most automatics will wind bi-directionally or in both clockwise and counter clockwise directions. Some watch makers limit the ability of the Rotor to spin around and allow only uni-directional winding. The second most common winding direction is Clockwise rotation, and fewer still automatics need to be wound counter-clockwise. Most watches need to be wound from a minimum of 650 turns per day (in the case of Rolex®) to 800 TPD. These are minimum requirements and a watch can easily tolerate 2 to 3 times the minimum requirement. Why? Automatics have a slip mechanism that prevents over winding. This is not to say winding a watch 24x7 can not damage it. It simply means you can not over tighten the main spring, it only gets so tight. Over use and under use are both enemies of automatic watches. Many cheap copy cat winders have entered the market since Orbita pushed the envelope of the watch winding market. Orbita makes winders in the same quality range as Underwood Winders and Scatola Del Tempo Winders, but at a much more affordable price point. Copy Cat companies saw Orbita price strategy and assumed that was the secret, they are wrong it is a combination of lowest price possibe while producing at the highest quality possible. A product with a 10 year life expectancy and trouble free for that entire time!

Turning crude jewelers tools into fantastic winder cases with sophisticated movements was not a cheap proposition. Doing it in a way that would not risk damage to these expensive watches was also a challenge. Orbita handled the challenges with flying colors! To specifically program a winder to wind your expensive watches you should choose Orbita Watch Winders or any of the other high quality watch winders we offer.

If you have a cheap fake Chinese made automatic watch, do not bother with a good winder. Get a watch winder of the same quality level as the watch you are going to put into it. To learn how to choose an automatic watch winder. Go to our page How to Choose a Watch Winder.

Some other enterprising people were doing similar work building winders in Germany, Austria, Japan and London and lately in China. The only problem with the winder market is it is extremely small. It is not a commodity market like watches and few winders are needed. The cheap china made products have tended to have artificially pushed down their price. They made too many for the demand thinking price was king. Wrong! I think the majority of Chinese made winders will go out of business since the products produced simply do not work and since they are selling product often at a loss they will soon give up. Please do not take this comment as over confidence like the automobile industry viewed Japan's entry into the auto market. The difference was Honda and Toyota made smaller cheaper, better! Orbita made, smaller cheaper better winders this is why Orbita took the lead away from some solid companies and maintains their lead despite the steep price competition from cheap products. Plus the luxury market simply does not buy cheap stuff for long! Comparing winders head to head based on price is as big a mistake as buying a watch based on price. Comparing two of the same exact watch? Well buy the cheaper one of course! But comparing a Rolex® and a fake Rolex®? Well, I hope you would agree the Real Rolex® is worth every penny compared to the fakes. (Substitute the name of any quality watch brand Breitling, Patek, Tag, Panerai. This level of watch is different than the low end watches.) If you do not agree, then you should leave this website, it will be a waste of your time. We simply do not sell cheap or fake products and the high quality products we do sell are priced accordingly.

Japan probably has the most watch winders in use of any country in the world! Why? Well, automatic mechanical watches appeal to business people, scientists and engineers and Japan has the highest concentration of scientists and engineers in the world!

An automatic watch stores kinetic energy from the movement of your wrist in basically a coiled spring inside the watch. This is the same type of spring that mechanical watches use to store power, but a mechanical watch requires you to wind a stem each and every morning. Automatic Watches do this when you move your wrist automatically. Hence the name automatic, or self winding watches! The problem with these mechanical marvels is if you do not wear or wind the watch then the stored energy is eventually used up and the watch stops and must be reset in order for you to wear it again. Rolex® is the most common automatic watch in the mass market. (Also known as a Self-Winding Watch.) Other names commonly used for this Watch Winding Device are Watch Winding Cases or Watch Winding Boxes, Watch Rotors, Watch Rotators, or simply Winder.

We are experts on automatic watch winders and watch cases.

Automatic watches require constant wearing or they need to be placed in a watch winder box to maintain the winding and settings of the automatic watch. Watch Winders are a great gift for someone who owns 1 or more automatic watches. Automatic Watches are mechanical marvels and a watch winder allows you to own more than one such marvel and not worry about ever needing to reset your watch or replace a watch battery!

We sell Watch Cases as in watch boxes and watch winders cases, but we do not sell the metallic Watch Cases container that a jeweler or watch maker uses to house the watch movements and protect the inside of a watch our Watch Case Boxes protect the entire watch, all the parts the case, the movement, band and all. If this is what you were looking for one of the best websites for reading up on these type Watch Cases is the Elgin page written by Wayne Schlitt . If you have an old scratched & beat-up watch case before you toss it out read how to open a watch cases and identify serial numbers on a watch case. Or read How to Open a Watch Case by Kevin James When you realize this old watch is valuable buy another Watch Case from us to store it in! This is best definition of a watch case I found in this patent application. If you are your self a jeweler and wanted a good source for watch cases to build your own watches from check this site out. It is a bit sloppy, but is a rather inclusive list. I provide links as an aid in my customers searching and surfing the web, I do not warrant the usability of any link nor the content of the site. I have no idea if these watch cases products are legitimate. I am not endorsing them, just showing you where to go online...Other Places for Watch Cases and movements Or try a bigger source for Watch Cases and movements at www.SLarose.com. S. LaRose Inc. located at 3223 Yanceyville St. Greensboro, NC.

If you are new to watch collecting. Bookmark us and read, read, read about the subject. If you are a novice you should look for domain extensions ending in ".ch",".de",".fr",".uk"....going to an actual manufacturers site instead of a retail store is very helpful!(".com" endings of course are well known) but ".ch is for Switzerland" based sites and ".de is for German based sites" both are great sources of information. ".fr" France, and ".uk" also tend to be highly selective and reliable I would be careful with .cn sites these are China based sites and may or may not be as trust worthy for information on collectible watches. Great sources for cheap/inexpensive product, but not collectibles, generally speaking.

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We sell only the best Watch Winders and Watch display Cases available. We sell Jewelry Boxes for Watches and Specialty Jewelry Storage Boxes and of course we also sell a few traditional Jewelry boxes. We sell both storage cases and display cases for watches, pens, jewelry, pocket watches, cuff-links, you name it I think we have it. Included in our line up of Watch Case Boxes is our extensive line up of Automatic Watch Winders. This is probably our area of expertise Watch Winder Cases and Boxes.

We also offer a small selection of Pen Cases & Pen Boxes and even fewer Pocket Watch Stands and Pocket Watch Boxes. If you are a pen collector (or watch collector) you may enjoy this article at Pen Trace. Just a collectors thoughts, expressed with the emotion that only a collector can appreciate. DC Pen Show 2005 pens & cases! Maybe you do not understand the appeal of watch collecting? This guy makes a case for watches.

If you wanted to read about the metallic body of a fine watch or about restoring a watch case. Click here and read how Rob Berkavicius of Australia restored his Tissot Astrolon mechanical watch (see insides open case). Refurbish a watch case to its original glory! Get Kevin James of Syracuse to Restore the watch case for you. If you would like to purchase a vintage watch or simply read about vintage watches I would suggest the a resource website : www.finertimes.com. Read what he has to say. Decide for yourself if you buy there, but his writing is interesting.

We have an extensive line of Watch Storage and Watch Display Cases and Storage Boxes for Pens and we also have a limited supply of Pocket Watch Boxes. We are experts on Automatic Watch Winders. Barry Goldberg is an expert on Pocket Watches and has written many books. If you are a rail road pocket watch collector go here to buy a pocket watch collecting guide and source book.

We have more information about Watch Winders deeper in this the website, but have a few tidbits here for you plus links to quality winders. If you wonder what kind of people are customers at WatchCases.com, check out our customer links pages, we only can include links customers tell us about, but it is interesting. Our Watch and Pen Case Customers

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Owners of Rolex® watches are the most frequent purchasers of our winders; however our winders work for winding all brands of automatic watches.

The following are the Industry recognized High End quality Winders and Winder motor manufacturers. Most companies making motors for the quality winders make motors of the grade that are used in the NASA space mission. In fact the Mars mission rover is powered by one of these motors! What's inside really does matter! Judge books and models by their cover if you like, but do not judge winders by their covers!

Austria, Italy, Germany and the USA are represented in this list. We carry the top 3 brands. Orbita, Elma and Buben & Zorweg.

Bergeon Winder Motors of Switzerland www.bergeon.ch

Buben & Zoerweg Winders of Austria www.buben-zoerweg.com

Elma Winders of Germany www.elma-ultrasonic.com

Faulhaber Motors in Croglio Switzerland www.minimotor.ch.

Maxon Winding Motors in the heart of Switzerland www.maxonmotor.com.

MTE Winder Motors of Germany www.mte-motors.de.

Orbita Winders USA/Austria www.orbita.com

Scatola Del Tempo Winders of Italy www.scatoladeltempo.com

Underwood Winders of Italy www.underwood-london.com

Alessandro Rustioni-UNDERWOOD(London) a Rustioni Company--Winders and Cases www.underwoodlondonltd.com.

A good biased opinion can be found on our website How to Choose a Watch Winder yes we are biased, but our bias is based on facts and solid products, not simply on a desire to sell you one of our products. We want to sell you a quality product and we need you to tell others about us! We are a small business and rely on word of mouth promotion. Your help is much appreciated.

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We carry the following brands of Watch Winders. Buben & Zorwer Watch Winders Elma Watch Winders Eilux Watch Winders(a.k.a Everwell Instruments Watch Winders) Orbita Watch Winders Rapport Watch Winders Wolf Designs Watch Winders.

Eilux Watch Winders Company Website
Winder Reviews:
Review 1: reveiew of Eilux Watch Winder by John Holbrook


Review 2:

Review of The Everwell/Eilux Two-Watch Winder
Review 3: Review of Two Eilux/Everwell Instruments Eilux Brand Single-Watch Winders

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Ever wonder who owns who in the watch business? We have the Watch Winder or Watch Case to hold your watch no matter the watch brand on the Watch Case:

If you own one of these watch brands we have the watch case winder to hold it/wind it. These are Swiss Watchmaker/Watch Manufacturer Links.