Watches engineered with a manual movement are hand-wound. The wearer has to wind the watch regularly manually. The manual movement is driven by a spring mechanism or mainspring, which needs to be wound on a regular basis. When the wearer wounds the crown to a single direction, it winds the mainspring and powers the watch.
There are hundreds of tiny parts that orchestrates the motion for the watch to tick. As the gears slowly turn, it delivers energy towards the mainspring. The wearer would know if the spring is fully wound, the crown will not turn any longer. If the wearer forgets to turn the crown, the energy that maintains consistent timekeeping will run out, and the watch will stop running.
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