Hand-Wound Neglect (First World Problem)

[Doofus]

Most of my watches are autos. I have a couple of quartz, but my Panerai is hand-wound.

Almost everything is on regular rotation of up to a week at a time, but whenever I wear the PAM, I keep forgetting to wind the bugger.

If I wore it regularly, I'd put a reminder in my phone, but as it's one of 20 or so watches, there's no pattern to when it gets worn.

Any tips?

[NDA]

Take it off at night. Wind it.

[Doofus]

NDA said:

Take it off at night. Wind it.

If only it were so simple.

[NDA]

Are you sleeping rough again?

[Doofus]

My point is that I forget to wind it. Telling me to wind it ain't going to help, unless you tell me every day when I am wearing it.

[TownIdiot]

Unless you have a routine you will forget.

So it's either
Set a phone reminder
Or
Have a routine of taking it off at night and winding, or winding when you put on
Or
Routine when you have a coffee/water/joint

Apart from that can't see what else there is

[MadCaptainJack]

Or
Sell it and buy an automatic.

[alscar]

Post on here every morning for a reminder ?

[Doofus]

So, in response to my question "Any tips?", the answer is "No."

[alscar]

As you are wearing it so irregularly can’t you then just “ remember “ to wind it when you put it on or am I missing the point ?

[Badda]

Remember the phrase, wind before you wipe.

[Doofus]

alscar said:

As you are wearing it so irregularly can’t you then just “ remember “ to wind it when you put it on or am I missing the point ?

I tend to wear a watch for several days - up to a week. Its power reserve isn't as much as that.

[7mike]

Doofus said:

I tend to wear a watch for several days - up to a week. Its power reserve isn't as much as that.

8 days (although I still forgot to wind it up once, checked and thought I still had loads of time to get my work done )

[Super Sonic]

Wind it up when you put it on, when it's spring runs out, change watch.

[Geertsen]

Write ‘WIND’ on your wrist under the watch. Any time you take it off you will be reminded.

A better alternative (if you use iPhone) is to say ‘Hey Siri, remind me to wind my watch at 10pm today” (for example) and it will pop up with ‘Wind Watch’ on your phone at the designated time. Then when you wind it say “Hey Siri, remind me to wind my watch 24 hours from now”.

[BrokenSkunk]

So, to be clear, the problem is that you don't wear a manual wind watch often enough for winding the watch to become a habit.
I think the solution is simple: just go out and buy a few more manual wind watches. With half a dozen more hand crankers in the collection you'll soon get into the swing of things.

(You're welcome.)

[Super Sonic]

Don't you have a watch winder?

[TownIdiot]

Super Sonic said:

Don't you have a watch winder?

Manual wind watch

Makes absolutely no difference

[Doofus]

BrokenSkunk said:

So, to be clear, the problem is that you don't wear a manual wind watch often enough for winding the watch to become a habit.
I think the solution is simple: just go out and buy a few more manual wind watches. With half a dozen more hand crankers in the collection you'll soon get into the swing of things.

(You're welcome.)

The best of a bunch of largely useless answers.

[redrabbit]

Assuming you brush your teeth every morning, tattoo "wind my watch" in reverse mirror writing on your forehead. In Germanic heavy metal font, ideally.

Not only will your watch be wound at the same time every day (which some will tell you helps preserve the mainspring), but your career prospects will improve dramatically.