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. 

Some time ago we wrote about Aevitas watch winders. We received some questions and remarks from readers of our blog about this brand. One of the questions was about the quality of these watch winders. The answer is simple, the quality is not what you may expect at this price level. The funny thing is that this brand is only sold by a few online shops, all from the same owner. This owner is probably also the owner of Aevitas watch winders. It seems there is no other strategy then to sell over priced watch winders through their own sales channels. 

In our opinion Aevitas is not a real watch winder brand such as Swiss Kubik, Chronovision, Rapport, Buben & Zörweg etc etc. If you really love your automatic watches we don't advise you to buy a Aevitas watch winder. In that price range you can buy several brand which do a lot better, such as Wolf, Rapport, Swiss Kubik, Benson, Paul Design and several more. 

We keep you posted about Aevitas watch winders. 

2017 was the 100th anniversary of the most important show and premium event for the world's watch and jewellery industry. On this important, once in a lifetime anniversary year, Baselworld reaffirmed once more its status as a global trendsetting show where the crème de la crème of global brands like Buben & Zörweg exhibit their new watch winder collections and signal the start of a new trendsetting year.

During this 8-day exhibition the Buben & Zörweg booth remained the focal point of buyers who were again eager to discover in which new and creative ways the German brand was able to materialize passion, precision and perfection. By permanently showcasing innovation through their newest watch winders, Buben & Zörweg masterpieces are increasingly setting the pace of the industry as far as safety, exquisite design and perfect execution is concerned.

Many serious watch collectors visiting the Buben & Zörweg booth every year, have come to expect the unexpected, and this year it was the new Solitaire Vision that gathered their full attention. Protected by bullet-proof spy glass that allows an insight as soon as the sophisticated led lighting system is activated, the additional integration of 46 Time Movers, a fine timepiece with world time indication and tourbillon escapement, a SI-60 safe, a humidor, a bar module and an integrated hi-fi system contributed to the overall success of this masterpiece among visitors.

During 8 full days, Baselworld was unquestionably the place to experience first-hand the launch of trendsetting innovations and masterpieces. The passion behind the innovative spirit that distinguishes every Buben & Zörweg creation has thus been reaffirmed and will undoubtedly drive the German luxury brand forward with renewed vitality.

Two weeks ago we spent several days on Baselworld, the biggest watch fair of the world. And of course several watch winder brands did exhibit and welcomed us for a conversation and presentation of their new watch winders. Thereby we did visit some smaller brands and looked around to see what's new. 

We are happy to see that Buben & Zörweg introduced a few new watch winders and also introduced some new models with a lower retail price. As there is more competition and not all consumers have the money to buy the real expensive watch winders it's a good step from Buben & Zörweg. 

Bernard Favre from Switzerland did suprise us with several new models. Next to the famous Planet watch winders they now present bigger cabinets and a new compact single watch winder. All made of the finest materials and with a perfect finish. 

In Hall 2.0 we found Chronovision. This German brand did introduce 2 years ago the Chronovision One single watch winder which is available in many different styles and materials. Now Chronovision presents bigger cabinets to wind multiple automatic watches. They even sold a big cabinet to Christiano Ronaldo, the Real Madrid soccer player. 

The Wolf design watch winders were not really different than other years. Their focus is on leather material and different colours. We didn't see many innovations regarding technique or design. Wolf lost distributors and dealers in Europe, and we hope Baselworld was a success for them, so we can see Wolf more on the European market as well. 

We experienced the same with Rapport watch winder from the UK. The collection isn't different from the last years we visited the Rapport booth. They have a beautiful big booth on a nice spot, but the collections didn't surprise us. Nevertheless Rapport is doing a good job in offering quite classical watch winders to the consumer who prefers a more classic style.