Just a personal opinion:
Don’t use watch winders. In the past, winders were useful to keep the oil from settlement/coagulation when the gears stop moving. With the modern lubricants used in watches this is no longer necessary and all they do is to accelerate wear and tear on your movement parts as they are kept turning and moving non stop. Like everything else mechanical, the parts are subject to wear and tear and running watches in a winder accelerates the rate of wear and tear as you can logically imagine. It’s a little like switching on your car engine and leaving it 24/7 for days in the garage. If you won’t do that to your car, don’t do that to your watch.
The lubricant used in your watch will not settle and coagulate even if left unworn for weeks or even months.
Furthermore, in an unserviced and unregulated movement, you are circulating potentially dirty/gritty oil among movement parts at an accelerated rate by placing it in a winder. If your watch is not regulated, it will gain or lose time over days anyway and you will still need to adjust it.
Winding your watch and setting the time and date should be part of the hobby and something you take time to do and enjoy doing. Even with a watch winder, you will ultimately have to do that for the time gained/lost and for the calendar month with 30 days in a month instead of 31. My advice is not to use a winder but to each his own, ultimately. What I stated was just my opinion and like all opinions it can be subjective and debatable. In my short past experience, using a winder often creates or reveals more issues than provide convenience for me.
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