Customer Reviews

Burl Wood Double Watch Winder 682DB

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Received the product quickly. It looks beautiful sitting on my dresser. I've had no problems with it. I don't hear it at all when it is running and does the job it was intended to do. I am pretty happy with it because I know you can spend a lot more for these. I hope it lasts!

I purchased an Orbita watch winder 2 years ago and spent over $400. When you think about what a watchwinder really does, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure it out. I spent way too much money. This watch winder does the exact same thing, but at a fraction of the cost. It is very well designed and looks expensive with the cherry wood finish. I would definitely buy this again.

I've just purchased this item, so I'm reserving my fifth star for when I see how it performs over the longer term. The product delivers as promised--looks great on a desk or chest of drawers and works quietly.

A note about the settings: if you normalize the settings for a 24-hour period, you'll find that the 33 sec./10 min./30 min./1 hr. settings translate into 60, 160, 240 and 480(!) minutes of rotation in a day, respectively, which seems counter-intuitive to me because I would've thought that more time between rotations would mean fewer overall rotations in a day. I'm not a mechanical watch expert (I only recently acquired a second one, hence this purchase) but from what I've read its not a good idea to wind one too much, too long.

The unit looks well built and sits on the drawer pretty cool as all other reviewers noted. However, it just does not keep my only automatic watch working. My watch is a Tag Heuer WAJ2150 and as far as I and local Tag Heuer service are concerned, there is nothing wrong with it. I tried all available rotation rates/day to no avail. Once put in the cabi'net, the watch stops after some time (4 to 20 hours depending on how much it has been winded prior to being inserted).

I contacted the seller who gave me a call on my mobile almost instantly and asked me to try different settings which I did, but still no solution. The gentleman was very kind, he didnt seem to understand what may have been wrong with the unit and sounded genuinely interested to find a solution but after all, the unit is not doing what it is supposed to do and I am stuck with it as the return fee would prove ridiculously high for me as I reside in Turkey.

One other thing is that the pads are a bit oversized. I am a guy with rather thin wrists and I ended up having to tear one of them and take some of the foam out before sewing it back again.

This unit arrived on time and packed like a jewel. It looks beautiful with rich dark wood and glass insert in the lid, the four settings will cover all situations for various watches. We have a large Submariner and a lady datejust and it works great, quiet and smooth the only thing we would change is the pad size, its to big for a ladies small size watch band.