Watch Winders and Accesories

You can purchase premium watch winders in Canada from Howard Fine Jewellers. We offer a curated selection of watch winders designed to safely store and maintain automatic timepieces, with options suitable for individual watches and larger collections. Shop our selection online with delivery across Canada, or visit our Ottawa showroom for personalized assistance.

A watch winder is a device designed to keep an automatic watch running when it is not being worn. It gently rotates the watch to mimic the natural movement of the wrist, keeping the watch wound and maintaining its time and complications.

Most automatic watches have a power reserve of 38 to 72 hours, meaning they will stop running after a few days if not worn or wound.

If you wear the same automatic watch every day, your wrist movement will keep it wound. Watch winders are most useful for collectors who rotate between multiple automatic watches and want them ready to wear without resetting the time or complications.

No. Watch winders are designed for automatic (self-winding) watches only. They do not affect quartz watches or manually wound mechanical watches.

Luxury automatic watches do not require a winder, but they can benefit from one if they are not worn regularly, particularly if they include complications such as calendars or moonphases that are time-consuming to reset.

For collectors with multiple automatic watches, a watch winder can be a convenient accessory that keeps watches running and ready to wear while also providing safe storage and display.