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What is a manual watch?

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Movement classification according to driving method

The driving method of a watch can be roughly divided into a mechanical watch, which uses the power to unwind the mainspring, and a quartz watch, which uses a battery as power.

At this time, mechanical watches are again classified into automatic/manual.
The method of automatically winding the mainspring by applying power to the rotor is the automatic, automatic, or self-winding method applied to all current Rolex models. The method of winding the mainspring by hand without a rotor is manual, or manual. It is called hand winding.