Watch Winders

Without doubt one of the worlds's leading manufacturers and suppliers of watch winders must be the renowned UK Company Rapport. When Maurice A. Rapport set up his company he could have had no idea that his small specialist watch winders bespoke business would become a global watch winders business.

Rapport has become a household name in clock making, horology and watch winders throughout the world, and his clocks and watch winders cabinets now grace desks and tables all other the world.

Rapport horological products have a unique style and superb quality made for the connoisseur who appreciates fine swiss watch and clock products, following a philosophy of innovation and attention to detail, backed by a quality assured level of customer service. Their watch winders are no different.

Rapport stands proud and still invests within the advances of watch winders and new technology to ensure they keep abreast of the latest features. They go to great lengths to ensure their watches match their customers' requirements as do their watch winders. Rapport makes hand crafted watches by expert craftsmen and compliment their watch range with a superb range of automatic watch winders.

Why use a watch winder?

An automatic watch has a mechanism within the watch that requires a regular motion and movement to keep the inner spring constantly charged, hence this only works when the watch is being worn. Once the watch is removed from the wrist, the stored energy life of the watch will only run for a further 24 to 72 hours maximum, depending upon the model. Then the watch will need to be manually wound and reset, which is a bore and tiresome for the busy executive.

Watches that contain complicated features, such as lunar phase, world time and other features make the task of resetting a daunting task and recalibrating not a 5 minute thing and to be avoided at all cost hence the need for a watch winder cabinet. Fine watches left in dormant mode do not perform as well when they are not functioning, like all finely tuned mechanical pieces they best perform when they are working continuosly. Internal lubrication, can be affected if left static, the watch will perform at its peak if kept maintained and running at all times.

That's where an automatic watch winder case provides a solution; a perpetual watch winder has features to mimic when the watch is being worn. The watch is held within a small case and held at a precise angle while being rotated and set to run intermittently to ensure the watch maintains its momentum and movement, but is not permanently fully wound.

Rapport is one of the world's leading makers of automatic watch winder for watches with precision, style and panache to store and to maintain the holder's precision time piece at optimum performance.

The craftsmanship and varying styles of the watch winders small cabinets that house the watch winders make them luxurious pieces of furniture worthy to grace any home. Each watch winders case is lovingly crafted in beautiful wood and hand finished with over 8 coats of lacquer. They are further adorned with gold, silver and plated fittings with soft velvet linings to add a touch of elegance to the watch winders case.

Rapport offer a unique range of watch winders from traditional wood cabinets to stylish aluminum cylinders to space age glass fronted cabinets. The watch winders can accommodate single, multiple watches or a dozen watches or more for collectors. They protect and prevent accidental damage to the watch and ensure their time piece is safe, secure and kept in optimum working motion.

Watch winders can be set to run clockwise, anti clockwise or in a combination of both directions and with a control on the speed of rotation to ensure you can achieve optimum results from your watch in accordance with your time piece manufacturer's recommendations.

Electric and Mechanical Watch Winders

The drive systems operate on a safe low voltage DC current below 6VDC and most Rapport watch winders can use batteries or plug directly into the mains using the DC adaptor. The watch winder's drive system is housed within a zinc alloy die cast gear box powered by a small DC motor to provide a silent, smooth operation.

If you want to maintain your beautiful designer watch then you should invest in wonderful watch winder cabinet to compliment your watch and maintain its optimum performance and truly impress your friends with these wonderful pieces of engineering and style.