Any Seiko Kinetic owners?

AsSiMiLaTeD

I have a few of these watches now, and I don't get to wear them all very often. I'm looking for a watch winder that can keep one or two of these charged. Many of the winders I'm looking at have reviews that say they don't work on the kinetic watches.

I know Seiko has a winder, but it's over $250. I'm wondering if any of you guys happen to have one of these watches and know of a winder that will keep it charged.

TIA

Knucklehead

My Wife bought me a really nice Seiko Kinetic watch for our anniversary about 8 years ago, Im not a big jewelry person so I bought a winder from brookstone about 5 years ago and it has kept my watch wound with no problems since then, I think I paid about $100 at the mall.

woodguru

I was buying and selling a lot of watches on ebay and got six or seven Kinetics for $30 to $70 each. I left a whole big box of high end Seikos sit for a couple of years and I can tell you the process of replacing the batteries is a pain in the butt. I sold a couple at garage sale prices to people who knew they were going to have to have batteries replaced only to have them come back to me saying jewelers screwed them up and couldn't do the batteries.

I still have four or five really nice ones with heavy stainless bands that are nicer than any Seiko I've ever had, also the rubber dive styles. I also have a couple of the auto wind Seiko 5 models that are actually watch afficionado sleeper watches. I replace the bands with super high quality heavy bands like are used on Breitlings or Rolex Presidentials and they are killer watches.

Seiko makes some great watches, there is a really high end version that costs several thousand dollars.