Is a small article-instruction interesting how to make a winder for a watch from a broken HDD?

Question

Do it yourself

The idea, as always, is simple, but useful. Automatic mechanical watches are not recommended to be wound with a crown. Also, you can simply forget to start them. Some for these purposes use special rotating coasters called winders (winder). There was an idea to make such a device from an old broken HDD. In theory it shouldn't look bad.

This is what the finished winders look like.

Answer 1

Write, I didn’t buy such a watch myself, but I gave it to a good friend of retirement age for his 60th birthday. While they were lying at my house, they stopped all the time, since I did not wear them.

Answer 2

judging by the picture, they all spin together relative to the vertical axis, it’s scary to imagine if you turn it on at 7200 rpm and insert 1 clock instead of 2x opposite or 2 next to it instead of 4x, the vibration will be terrible, If you screw it to the table, the table will dance, the floor will be to the floor and walls will vibrate)