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Now that my ever growing watch collection has begun to encompass several different brands and types of pre-quartz and quartz regulated electromecanical  watches, I have some concerns about what I can do to preserve the longevity of these, in some cases, nearly 60 year old watches. As a rule of thumb, I wear all the watches I own on a rotation. No specific order, just not the same watch twice in the same week. This leaves many of my watches sitting unused for weeks at a time. Normally this isn't an issue with my mechanical and automatic watches as they run down and quit. The electromechanical watches however don't get that luxury and tick away into eternity. I know that most, if not nearly all of these watches feature some form of hacking when the crown is pulled. My thought and question is this, would it be logical to pull the crowns on these watches and essentially place them in a "stasis" mode until I'm ready to wear them again? This would effectively stop the motion of the mechanical parts and thus eliminating any wear on these mechanical parts. The draw back to this is resetting the time and especially the date as many of them don't have quickset date features. I'd like for everyone to please weigh in on this and give their opinions and experiences with this subject. Thank you.

Below are just a few examples from my collection to illustrate.
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