Lid magnet is firm
It shuts with real authority, which I like, but it takes a deliberate pull to open and my wife finds it stiff.
Owners, on camera
If it's an automatic, yes. The cushion slips inside the closed strap or bracelet, leather or steel, and holds the watch in place as it turns.
Not sure about your model? Send us the reference and we'll confirm it fits before you order.
No. It's made for the bedroom: on the bedside table, it turns without you hearing it.
Three years on parts and labor from the day it arrives. Motor faults are replaced, not repaired at your cost. Cushions and adaptors are sold separately, so a worn part does not retire the whole unit.
30-day returns, gift-boxed as standard. Mon–Fri, 9–5, a person answers. Your statutory rights are unaffected.
| Capacity | 1 to 2 automatic watches |
|---|---|
| Rotation | Clockwise, anti-clockwise or alternating |
| Materials | Lacquered wood (black lacquer or mahogany lacquer), blue LED lighting |
| Power | Power plug included |
| Noise level | Quiet, designed for the bedroom or study |
| In the box | Power supply, Watch cushions, Instructions, Warranty card |
In the evening, the lights go down and the inside of the Eclipse glows blue. Your watches turn gently in their lacquered case, like a window display at night.
It holds one watch today, and two the day your collection grows: you will not need to buy it again.
Deep, even lacquer, in black lacquer or mahogany lacquer, worthy of fine furniture. Blue LED interior lighting. Clockwise, anti-clockwise or alternating rotation, to suit your movement.
Buy for the collection you will have, not the one on the shelf today.
Made to keep these automatics wound
About Zaviloo
Zaviloo does one thing: looking after automatic watches between wears. Winders, boxes and travel cases, made in Europe, chosen for how quietly they work and how they look.
Covered for three years, with 30 days to change your mind.
Kind to the movement
An automatic is built to turn, as it does on your wrist all day. The winder simply carries on while it rests: right time, right date, and the crown left alone.
It shuts with real authority, which I like, but it takes a deliberate pull to open and my wife finds it stiff.
Nine months and it has not developed the rattle my last one had at three.
The finish itself is excellent, deep and even, no argument there. It is noticeably darker in person than on the listing, closer to true black than the brown-black I was expecting, and next to lighter furniture it reads as a black box. I have got used to it.
Deep and even, no orange peel in the lacquer when you look along it. That is where cheap gloss gives itself away.
Mine lives on a desk where the blue is rather the point of it in the evening. In a bedroom I would shut the lid, which turns it off anyway.
My 44mm on a bracelet fits the position but there is very little room either side. Anything wider and I think it would be a problem.
I have a single automatic today and I know exactly which one I am buying next. Replacing a winder eighteen months later is a waste and this avoids it.
Bought it with one watch and a plan. The plan happened in April and the second position was waiting.
It is a beautiful finish and it does show every touch. A cloth lives in the drawer next to it now. Worth knowing if that sort of thing bothers you.
Photographs make it look like black plastic. It is not, and the difference is obvious the moment the box is open.
Which I did not expect to. The blue light on the ebony actually looks rather good in a dim room and it has become a bit of a fixture.
Clockwise, anti-clockwise and alternating. I run the alternating one and the watch has kept excellent time on it.
One is a Seiko, one a Longines, and the alternating cycle has kept them both within a couple of seconds. I stopped fiddling with it after the first week.
Runs, quiet, looks good.
Gets commented on, which no winder I have owned before ever did.
I was running two singles and two adaptors. One lead now, and the surface looks considerably tidier for it.
Before you order
No. An automatic movement is built to turn: that is exactly what your wrist does all day. Once the mainspring is fully wound, a slipping mechanism stops it being wound any further.
What really wears is the crown, which you handle every time you reset the watch. With a winder, you leave it alone.
No. Slip the cushion inside the closed strap, set it in place and switch it on. Where the model has settings, the standard one suits most automatics.
Want the exact setting for your watch? Send us the reference and we'll reply with it.
Set it against the price of the watch it keeps running: it's the least expensive thing that looks after it every day.
Without it, every reset means handling the crown, winding the date on and losing a few minutes in the morning. It does that for you, every night.
If they love automatic watches, yes. It's the present they've been putting off for months and never buy themselves: it feels too indulgent to pay for.
They'll see it turning every evening, and every morning their watch will be waiting, on time. Not sure about their watch? Send us the reference and we'll tell you if it fits.
Buy one place more than you need today. It costs a little more now and saves buying the whole thing again in eighteen months.
Count the automatics you rotate, then add the one you already know you want.
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