Welcome, Glycine enthusiasts! Have you ever found yourself marveling at your exquisitely crafted Glycine watch, only to realize that you’re unsure about the proper winding technique? Worry not, because today’s blog post is here to guide you through the delicate intricacies of winding a Glycine watch with precision and care, ensuring its longevity and enhancing its already mesmerizing allure.

How to Wind a Glycine Watch Correctly: A Simplified Guide

Identifying Your Watch Type

Glycine offers a range of watches, primarily focusing on self-winding mechanical watches, with some quartz options available. While automatic watches are the main focus of their collection, they also provide battery-powered quartz options for those seeking precise timekeeping. Glycine’s various collections, such as Airman, Combat, and F104, showcase an array of styles and designs, particularly catering to aviation and military watch enthusiasts. This ensures that Glycine has a watch to suit preferences ranging from classic pilot watches to modern sports timepieces.

Before attempting to wind your watch, determine its type. Glycine manual wind watches need regular winding to maintain power reserve, while self-winding watches can be wound through natural wrist movement or by using a watch winder.

  1. Wearing the Watch Daily

When you wear your Glycine watch frequently, your arm’s natural movement winds the watch’s movement, ensuring accurate timekeeping without manual winding.

  1. Manual Winding: Rotating the Crown

In position 0: wind the crown in a clockwise direction 20 to 30 times. The movement then rewinds automatically with each movement of the wrist.

Note: Some watches have a screwed crown. The crown must be fully unscrewed before carrying out manual winding. Once the adjustment is done, the crown must be screwed back on in order to ensure the watch watertight.

  1. Automatic Winding: Using a Glycine Watch Winder

For those with multiple luxury timepieces or without daily wear of their Glycine watch, using a watch winder is a practical option. Brands like Mozsly and Wolf provide watch winders that replicate natural wrist motion, maintaining accuracy without damage due to manual winding.

Following these guidelines will help you wind your Glycine watch properly, ensuring optimal performance and longevity.

Watch winder

How Does an Automatic Watch Winder Work?

Are you unfamiliar with the concept of an automatic watch winder? In simple terms, it is a specialized jewelry box equipped with a motor and microprocessor, designed to actively rotate your watch at regular intervals. This simulated wrist movement keeps your timepiece properly wound.

An automatic watch winder offers various rotation settings, including clockwise only, counterclockwise only, or both directions, depending on the specifications of your watch’s movement. Multi-watch winders even support alternating rotations, enabling the simultaneous winding of multiple watches.

When it comes to automatic watches like those produced by Bvlgari, proper winding is essential for their optimal performance. By using the Glycine watch winder, you can ensure that your timepiece remains accurate, eliminates the need for manual winding, and prevents lubricants from drying out.

Most Glycine self-winding watches require 650 to 800 revolutions per day, typically wound clockwise. Hence, the majority of watch winders can adequately accommodate the winding needs of Glycine watches.

To assist you further, we present the recommended turns per day (TPD) and winding directions for your Glycine watch. Familiarizing yourself with these Glycine watch winder settings will ensure optimal care for your cherished timepiece.

Glycine Winding Parameters

Definitions:

«CW» – Clockwise winding direction;
«CCW» – Counterclockwise winding direction;
«Both» – Combined mode (Clockwise + Counterclockwise);
«–» – Undefined;

MODEL, DESCRIPTIONMOVEMENT / CALIBERWINDING DIRECTIONTURNS PER DAY (TPD)
Airman 1Both650
Airman 7ETA 2893-2 & ETA 2671-2Both650
Airman 7 CrosswiseETA 2893-2 & ETA 2671-2Both650
Airman 7 Crosswise Circle SLETA 2893-2 & ETA 2671-2Both650
Airman 7 Crosswise Dial SLBoth650
Airman 7 DLC Golden RimETA 2893-2 & ETA 2671-2Both650
Airman 7 Plaza MayorETA 2893-2 & ETA 2671-2Both650
Airman 8ETA 2893-2Both650
Airman 8 Chrono Ref.3876CW800
Airman 9ETA 7754CW800
Airman 12 Ref. 3903Both650
Airman 17ETA A07.171CW800
Airman 17 Ref. 3865CW800
Airman 17 Ref. 3917Both650
Airman 17 Royal Ref.3866Both650
Airman 17 Royal Ref.3930Both650
Airman 17 Sphair Ref.3927Both650
Airman 18ETA 2893-2Both650
Airman 18 Ref.3866Both650
Airman 18 Royal Ref.3931Both650
Airman 18 Sphair Ref.3927Both650
Airman 36 mmETA 2893-2Both650
Airman 46 mmETA 2893-2Both650
Airman 2000ETA 2893-2Both650
Airman Base 22 GAETA 2893Both650
Airman Base 22 GMTETA 2893Both650
Airman 22 Base Mystery Ref.3887Both650
Airman 22 Base Ref.3887Both650
Airman Base 24 HoursETA 2893Both650
Airman 24 Double Ref.3886Both650
Airman AirfighterCW800
Airman Chrono 08ETA 7754CW800
Airman Double 24ETA 2893-2Both650
Airman Double 24 09Both650
Airman MLVETA 2893-2Both650
Airman SpecialETA 2893-2Both650
Airman Special IIETA 2893-2Both650
Airman SST 06ETA 2893-2Both650
Airman SST ChronoCW800
Airman Vintage VETA 2893-2Both650
Altus ChronographValjoux 7750CW800
Altus CompliqueValjoux 7751CW800
Carre AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Chrono: Altus, Le Grand Carre, StratoforteValjoux 7750CW800
CM 40mmETA 2824-2Both650
Combat 2ETA 2824-2Both650
Combat 3ETA 2824-2Both650
Combat 6Both650
Combat 6 AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Combat 07 AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Combat 07 ChronographETA 7750CW800
Combat Automatic 37mm, 39mm, 40mm, 43mm, 44mmETA 2824-2Both650
Combat ChronographETA 7750CW800
Combat Chrono 44 mmCW800
Combat High PerformanceETA 2824-2Both650
Combat SUBBoth650
Combat SUB AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Combat SUB StealthBoth650
Eugene Meylan AutomaticETA 2895-2Both650
F104 AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Goldshield AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Grand Carre AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Grand Carre ChronographETA 7750CW800
Incursore 44mm Automatic ARCOETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore 44mm Auto ARCO IIETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore 44mm IIIBoth650
Incursore 44mm Auto ARCO SLETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore 44mm Automatic FaroETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore 46mm 200M AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore 46mm 200M Automatic SAPETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore 46mm Power ReserveETA A07.161CW800
Incursore AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore Automatic DiamondsETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore Automatic MOPETA 2824-2Both650
Incursore Black Jack Limited EditionCW800
Incursore Black Jack Automatic ChronographETA 7750CW800
Incursore Black Jack Automatic Small SecondETA 2895-2Both650
Incursore Black Jack CompliquéETA 7751CW800
Incursore Chrono Day DateETA 7750CW800
Incursore Power ReserveBoth650
Incursore Power Reserve DLC (Speedometer)ETA A07.161CW800
Lagunare 1000ETA 2824-2Both650
Lagunare AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
Lagunare Certified Chronometer 3000 (LLC 3000)ETA 2824-2Both650
Lagunare ChronographValjoux 7750CW800
Lagunare Chronograph L 1000Valjoux 7750CW800
Lagunare Chrono L 1000CW800
Lagunare Chronometer 3000Both650
Lagunare Chronometer Ltd. Ed.ETA 2824-2Both650
Lagunare LCC 1000Both650
Ningaloo Reef ChronographValjoux 7750CW800
Ningaloo Reef CompliqueValjoux 7751CW800
Ningaloo Reef Real DiamondsValjoux 7750CW800
Observer AutomaticETA 2824-2Both650
RettagolinoETA 2671-2Both650
RettangoloETA 2671-2Both650
Stratoforte ChronographValjoux 7750CW800
Stratoforte CompliqueValjoux 7751CW800
SW AutoETA 2824-2Both650
Glycine Watch Winder Setting

How to Properly Use and Set the Glycine Watch Winder?

If for some reason you don’t have access to your watch’s user guide, here are some more detailed tips to help you set up the Glycine watch with your automatic watch winder:

  1. Since your winder will not wind a watch that is completely stopped, start by turning the crown 20 to 30 times to manually wind the Glycine.
  2. Carefully place the watch into the winder, making sure it is fully seated in the holder. Then adjust the TPD to the lowest setting and select bidirectional rotation mode.
  3. Turn on the winder. During the next 48 hours or so, periodically check that the watch is still keeping accurate time. Generally speaking, an automatic watch has about 40 hours of reserve time since it is wound. If the time is still correct after two days, then this is the setup for you and you don’t need to experiment anymore.
  4. However, if the time is wrong, increment to the next TPD setting and repeat the above process.
  5. If the time is correct after two days, you’ve found the correct setting.
  6. If the time is wrong, set the winder to turn clockwise only, and repeat the process.
  7. If the time is still correct after two days, this is the correct setting for you.
  8. If the time is incorrect, set it to rotate counterclockwise only and repeat the process.

Does Glycine Recommend using a Watch Winder?

Glycine has not explicitly stated whether it recommends the use of watch winders.

Although not endorsed, many professional watchmakers agree that the use of a reliable watch winder from a reputable watch winder brand (e.g. Wolf, Mozsly, Barrington) can effectively wind a Glycine automatically. The correct TPD setting is essential to avoid over-winding the movement.

So, to summarize – regular wear is the best option, but a quality watch winder can provide a convenient solution for in-between wearing.

What is the Best Watch Winder for Glycine ?

If you are considering a watch winder, it is vital that you choose a high quality that meets the specific requirements of your Glycine watch. To help you find the best watch winder for Glycine , I would like to recommend the following two excellent products:

MOZSLY® Single Watch Winder – Black Leather

Single watch winder for Glycine Watch
Best Single Watch Winder for Glycine Watch

Material: Wooden Box/PU Leather/Acrylic Board
Color: Black/Orange/Purple/Green/Blue/Brown/White/Red/Carbon Fiber/Light Blue Leather
Dimensions: 4.4 x 6 x 4.4 inches

✅4 modes with TPD settings ranging from 650 to 1500
✅All three winding directions are supported
✅Use Japanese upgraded Mabuchi Motor
✅Anti-magnetization Design
✅Dual Power Type
✅3 Years Warranty
✅100% handmade

MOZSLY® Double Watch Winder -Orange Leather

Double Watch Winder for Glycine Watch
Best Double Watch Winder for Glycine Watch

Material: Wooden Box/PU Leather/Acrylic Board
Color: Black/Orange Leather
Size: 8.85.94.7 inches

✅4 modes with TPD settings ranging from 650 to 1500
✅All three winding directions are supported
✅Use Japanese upgraded Mabuchi Motor
✅Anti-magnetization Design
✅Dual Power Type
✅3 Years Warranty
✅100% handmade

This beautiful dual watch winder simultaneously powers two watches. A quiet motor drives selectable winding modes while adjustable settings suit various calibers.

MOZSLY watch winders use high-quality upgraded Japanese Mabuchi motors, a well-known brand that manufactures precision motors. These motors keep the noise below 10 db so it will give you a very quiet experience even if you put it in your bedroom. The internal motor is closed and can be separated from the watch so that the Glycine will not be magnetized and affect the running time.

With a 36-month warranty and friendly customer service, we welcome you to purchase Mozsly watch winders!

In Conclusion

For Glycine watch owners, purchasing a Mozsly watch winder is a wise decision. By properly maintaining your watch with a Mozsly watch winder you can ensure its accuracy, longevity, and overall performance.

Remember to choose the Turns Per Day (TPD) and winding direction that meets the specific requirements of your Glycine watch and follow the manufacturer’s guidelines for proper use and maintenance. With the Mozsly watch winder, you can adorn your Glycine and keep the perfect time for years to come.