When someone wears an automatic watch and moves about, the rotating weight inside it keeps on moving and self winding the watch. Thus, to ensure that the watch works properly and is always wound, it has to be continuously kept in motion.

To wind automatic watches when they are not worn, you must have watch winders for that purpose. Due to the difficulty of manually winding the automatic watches, the need for watch winders arose, resulting in their invention.

A basic watch winder constitutes a case that, while imitating the motion of an arm at the time the wearer moves about, holds a watch inside it, thus winding it continuously.

Both types of watch winders, simple as well as elaborate, are available and can hold a single watch and wind it or are classy and hold many watches. Conventional and time- based watch winders is another way by which we can classify the watch winders.

In case of conventional watch winders the mechanism of winding comes to a halt after a watch is fully wound. Time-based watch winders have the mechanism by which it is possible to time the watch winder, and it will only wind the watch for that much time.

Time-based watch winders are a better option, even though over-winding of the watch does not affect its workability. Depending upon your requirements, you can utilize a watch winder accordingly; for instance, if you wear a the watch daily and need it all the time, then you need to wind it almost every time you take it off, but if you seldom wear watches you need not to wind it regularly.

Other than watches that are semi-quartz and don't have batteries, automatic watch winders are of no use in case of quartz watches that have batteries and do not need winding. Watch winders can neither damage your watch nor protect it from anything, although if the watch is kept idle for elongated period of time, its oils may suffer from clotting, however, it is not the case with modern watches.

In case you possess a complex watch that shows more than just time and date, then watch winder may prove to be of great importance, though you may not use the watch but to keep everything current you would the watch winder.

The complications can be moon phases, double chronograph, perpetual calendar, Easter date calculators, quarter repeater etc. Orbita watch winders are among the market leaders in the watch winder industry and is considered one of the best brands around.

You can opt from many designs and dimensions of the Orbita watch winders, and select the one best suited for you. Orbita also launched the watch winders for manual watches when it exhibited manual Orbita watch winders in 2000, at a Watch Expo.