When you're interested in buying a watch winder it's handy to have a guideline to make the best decision. There are so many brands and types of watch winders available. In our opinion the best watch winder is that unit that does meet your expectations and winds any automatic watch. Of course there are budget brands and more high end brands. Price is an important factor as well. 

A good watch winder offers quality, functionality and durability. Japanese, German or Swiss made motors are very important. Don't choose Chinese motors. Thereby the gearbox is very important as well. Some brands offer Japanese or even German motors in combination with a cheap gearbox which results in defects and a lot of noise. Also functionality is very important, as we think a modern watch winder should wind any automatic watch and therefore can rotate in both directions and offers selectable turns per day (TPD). Budget brands such as Modalo, Aevitas and Barrington mostly offer a reasonable price (Barrington and Aevitas are priced quite high though) but the watch winders are for the short term....the quality and finish is not as good as brands we mention later on in this article. 

When we have to buy a new watch winder, not budget but also not high-end, then we would choose a brand like Swiss Kubik, Rapport, Wolf, Benson Watchwinders, Heisse & Söhne, Chronovision or Paul Design. These brands do offer different models in different styles, and also prices vary, but in the end these brands are seriously in producing watch winders and offer quality and durability.

Early 2016 the Dutch watch winder brand Benson introduced its Black Series. An unique series of watch winders that combines a very high level of quality with perfect functionality to wind any automatic watch. With more than 200 official dealers worldwide the brand is very successful. This year Benson introduced its newest watch case and watch winder tower collections. At this blog we focus on watch winders but we have to say that the Benson Black Series watch cases are very attractive! They have a modern look and are made of beautiful materials as metal, wood and a special velvet.

Of course we are even more interested in the watch winder towers. We tested one unit in our office and we can say that we haven't seen another brand producing the same quality in this price range. Thereby the functionality, each rotor can be set individually, makes sure any automatic watch regardless brand or model gets enough energy. 

Last week we spoke with Benson Watchwinders and they told us that at the end of this year a special limited edition watch winder series will be presented. We are very curious and will write more about this new series soon at this blog. 

Please visit the official Benson Watchwinders website to find a dealerlist. Online you can buy this brand at Watchwinders.com. 

In the field of watch winders there are some brands that are really interesting because of the big steps they made in the last 5 years. Brands as Benson, Bernard Favre and Paul Design are good examples. Paul Design from Hong Kong is a brand we follow of a couple of years. We have met the owner, Paul Chen, of the brand at Baselworld last march. We see great passion and the will to create something special for watch adepts. 

Recently Paul Design introduced their new Illusion watch winder series. It's a beautiful and affordable series of watch winders which combines great looks with good functionality. The design is modern and the usage of materials with specific colours is very interesting. The Paul Design watch winders offer all functionalities you need to wind any automatic watch. 

One of our favorite models is the big cabinet, including watch winders, storage drawers and a safe. Competitor brands offer this kind of cabinets for 25.000 USD +, but this Paul Design cabinet does cost +- 17.000 USD. It's a big difference! 

There are several online stores where you can buy a Paul Design watch winders, such as BensonTrade and Watchwinders.com

We do look forward to new Paul Design watch winders and innovations, and keep you posted about them on this blog. 

Most watch winders do look the same and offer the same method of winding one or more automatic watches. There are only a few watch winder brands that distinguish itself from other brands. One of these brands is Kunstwinder. This brand located in the US produces high end watch winders which wind any automatic watch in a very special way. It's better to speak about pieces of art than about a watch winder. 

Kunstwinder did become popular with models such as the Oil Baron and Ferris Wheel. Winding your watches in one of these watch winders is a joy for your eyes. The materials and craftmanship are both of a very high level, which makes a Kunstwinder watch winder unique and suitable for many years of use. 

Of course this luxury comes with a price, but when you want an unique watch winder to wind your automatic watches a Kunstwinder is what you need. 

In this blog article we write about "Mémoire", the watch winder from RDI-Charles Kaeser 

Set off on a journey into the furthest reaches of time, and contemplate the memory of our beautiful planet in the fossilized wood that composes each side of this winder. Imagine a story that began 225 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed and the land was covered in dense primal forest. After two cataclysms, a mixture of water, ashes and other sediments has penetrated this tree well preserved. Function of the porosity, these minerals penetrated the trees at depth, using the wood fibers leading the sap.

Speaking from the tree, the trunk or the path taken by the tree: everything is unique. Taking account of this, we find the origin of the colors so different, even from one tree to another, speaking from the same species. To give only some examples: red, orange, yellow, are the witnesses of the presence of iron; black of carbon; blue, purple, of manganese. A very rich outfit of colors, so well expressed in the winder: Mémoire.

The deposits of fossilized wood are rare and very often protected as natural fossil heritage of the country where it is. The rare countries which authorize the extraction and the marketing of the fossilized wood make it in a statutory way. The petrified wood is rare, its extraction is difficult, and all step of the extraction is asking for the highest protection of the tree. We appreciate the technological achievement with this thinly meticulous polished layers of the tree we find in Mémoire. Every watch winder is unique and is a magnificence work of art. Mémoire, the real guard-time which makes you go back in time with this very rich pallet of colors.

We have heard that RDI-Charles Kaeser reserves us some surprises during the year.