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• s  designed so that manual winding is unnecessary
  a self-winding watch

• Under the University of Chicago's self-starting, self-winding curriculum, undergraduates set their own pace: they can get their degrees as fast as they earn them.
• The new ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater.
• It differs in principle from self-winding watches in that the electricity actually makes the watch go, does not merely wind a spring.