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Maintaining power reserves

I'm probably about to buy my second 'good' automatic (ie, non-battery powered) watch. I've got two questions re: power reserves:

1) I know electronic devices don't like having their power levels reduced to zero. If I didn't wear my first watch for a period of time (days or weeks) and the power reserves ran down to zero, would this be a problem?

2) If I wanted to maintain some power reserve in it, would it be OK to leave the watch with the crown pulled out, as if I were setting the time? Obviously I'm not then going to chuck it in the bathtub.

For info, my existing watch is an Omega Seamaster 300m; the new one is likely to be a Breitling Superocean Steelfish.

Thanks.

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Maintaining power reserves

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0 wallclock secs ( 0.18 usr + 0.03 sys = 0.21 CPU)