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by xsor 1732 days ago
Unfortunately not, this was a famous problem taught by Feynman in his physics lectures. Essentially the Brownian motion of the ratchet and pawl mechanism (used in your watch) will eventually prevent the mechanism from harvesting energy [0].

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_ratchet