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Having a gratitude practice is really important to me but I knew that sometimes remembering to do it could be difficult, so I made it part of my daily habit of winding my Speedmaster.

Every morning when I pick up my watch and wind it, I like to think of it as giving myself time (disclaimer, not my concept, stole it from some other redditor) and time specifically to think about the things, people, etc that I'm grateful for!

Winding a watch is a nice tactile way to connect to the mechanics of my watch, but it's really the intentional taking of a minute to be mindful that I really cherish.

Who else loves a manual wind watch?

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[–] jlo575@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t usually enjoy anything not leather or steel on really nice watches but damn… that combo is nice.

[–] kosnosferatu@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much! And agree, in a world where everything is about convenience, it's nice to be intentionally inconvenienced!

[–] fusiongt021@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I did enjoy my JLC reverso 8 day manual watch. It wound so fast where my other watches would be the usual 50 hour reserve and take as long or longer than it took the reverso to wind all 8 days. And it had more complications like night/day, moon phase, date, more. Just showed to me why JLC is the watchmaker's watchmaker haha

[–] docfluty@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

My manual watches include an Ed White 321, Silver Snoopy, Kudoke k2, Grand Seiko Omiwatari, and an Arnold & Son Perpetual Moon... so that's 50% of my main watch 10-spot watch box lol

[–] Thatfoxagain@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Love em, except for Vostok. No quick set date succcccks whenever I wanna wear mine.

[–] Trickybas@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I really like that strap... Where did you get it?

[–] TheStoicSlab@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I love omegas in all their embodiments.

[–] Tune_Silver@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago