Orbit Watch Winder – Single Watch Winders for Automatic Watches and Mechanical Watch Winder for Rolex Watch Winder Box Gyro Gyroscope Clear Transparent

It almost looks like a fancy steampunk device as it noisily winds the watch.
The good…It looks great!I have one auto winding watch and looked forward to being able to rotate through my other watches as this automatically wound this one. It was easy to figure out how assemble, only having a base, an o-ring, watch mount and glass cover. My watch, a men’s Orient, fit perfectly and looked great on display.The bad…I finally had time to set it up last night in my bedroom and ran into a problem after going to bed. It is noisy, so bad in fact that I was unable to get to sleep with it running. While they included an o-ring to cut down on vibration and sound magnification through the glass lid. It does nothing to cut down on the noise coming out the baseAnd the noisy…I removed the watch and listened closely and heard what sounded like really loud motor bearings or other bearing. Taking the load of the watch off does not lessen the noise level.Placing the winder on a wood surface, like a bookcase shelf, or dresser allows the wood to carry and magnify the sounds as they travel down through the base and out through the wood. The pads on the bottom of the winder are not thick enough or sufficient to dampen noise traveling downward.I decided last night to return it and get a different winder. Unfortunately someone was really efficient at throwing away the box and packaging it came in. I am going to see if I can still return it.If not, I might take it apart, like the engineer I am and redesign it. Depending on what I find I might put a small processor in the base and use a stepper motor and better bearings instead of what they have. It might be fun to put a proximity detector on it and have it spin once and stop with the watch on display anytime it detects someone in front of it.Would I buy it again? Nope, I was in a hurry and didn’t read the reviews, I just went by looks.If they fixed the noise problem I would buy it in a New York minute, as it really makes my watch look good.

Really Looks Cool, But Noisy
It makes for a great presentation of my Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date watch, but over time it has developed an intermittent growling noise that is annoying in the bedroom. Another disappointment is the watch holder must be designed for women’s wrists, I had to apply self-adhesive Velcro loop material to the entire outside surface to be able to attach my watch firmly enough not to immediately fall off… Additionally, I fear that the rather tentatively feeling connection of the watch holder to movement section may break easily. Its plastic and clicks into place (a tedious procedure at best), I rarely wear this watch, so I’ve only done the operation a few times. That said, the watch keeps good time while perched under the glass dome…

Beautiful but lacking instructions
This winder looks great and seems to work well. However, it came with no instructions. I had to figure out how to mount a watch in the holder and install it in the winder which is not obvious. It also is hard to mount a watch in the holders they give because the holders are quite stiff and unbendable. I could only use strapped watches because metal bracelets would not close on the holder. I also have no idea on how to use the single knob control. As far as I could tell it has a clockwise, counterclockwise, and a two-directions setting, but there is no way to set the number of rotations per day, nor do I know the default number of rotations. Makes for a nice display which is mainly why I got it. I won’t be buying another one when here are better ones available.

For this as a Christmas gift for my brother and he loves it!

Nice working, silent and smooth operation. Watch bar could be a better fit to stop it falling off accidentally when not fitted correctly…2 more unfortunately came without rubber seating rings for glass tops and vibrates so will be getting refundGood value otherwise

It looks good, although the movement is rather limited. The main problem was that is was noisy – emitting a low and very invasive intermittent hum.