Does accuracy really matter that much?

I generally like my watches to be within a minute per week. But it’s really not a big deal to reset the one I’m wearing if it happens to be off.

The reason I can think of that WIS don't care about accuracy for accuracy's sake is that we do have many, many other ways to know what time it is precisely.

No, accuracy matters to a WIS because it's a marker of a quality watch.

I got used to seiko nh lack of accuracy but after I got a Zelos with a spot on regulated movement, I kinda wish my other watches were accurate. My turtle is very annoying at minus 40 secs a day.☹

As long as the watch keeps reasonable time for one day, I'm happy.

I switch out watches on a daily basis (over 100 in my collection), so by the time I pick up any automatic/manual watch, it's stopped moving anyway, so I have to set the time when I put it on.

And from that point, any watch is pretty accurate for the day, because even if it loses a minute per day, it's still 99.93% accurate by the end of the day, and generally speaking most people don't need more accuracy than that.

I need my watch to be accurate to the minute. Three minutes slow is the difference between missing the bus and making it on time to the station. Three minutes fast is the difference between me sitting in a conference call without having been to the toilet.

I am truly jealous of people who don't need to time everything to the minute but for me it's a big deal. If a watch doesn't tell accurate time, then it isn't useful anymore and becomes an inconvenience, at best.

If you keep it running, resetting more than once a week or so is annoying and risky if you forget. Two minutes is starting to get off for me. Luckily I don't care about seconds.

Depends - if it cost £30 then that's fine, I have a £4.5k Breitling running 30 seconds slow per day - that's unacceptable IMO (and is in for repair under warranty).

I find a watch running slow far more annoying than a watch running fast

Anything under 3 minutes a week is ok for me 😅

My watches sync automatically. It's never a concern.

But no I wouldn't be happy with 3 minutes off. Sometimes I want to know what the time is. For example if a zoom meeting is at 5 I don't want to be late. And I don't want to always be worrying about how much is currently off by or when is the next time I need to fix it.

Also for the same reason a car enthusiast wouldn't want their car to have small engine issues or small rusty bits. We want the stuff we get to be high quality and work as intended.

Yes, it matters. And it really bothers me when it's not within about 20 seconds range.

I think the price for 6R35 pieces is too high, I expect better accuracy in that range. The more I spend, the more I expect chronometer specs. One of the reasons I reach for my 9F quartz a lot. 😉

Needs to keep reasonable time, especially if its certified.

It only has one job, has to at least do it well!

I did caveat my post based on intended use.

Like I said, if you wore that movement for anything vaguely professional or that matters you could be stuffed.

For bumming about on the beach or knowing when happy hour is, it’s fine 😂

Look if you’re really religious about exact time use a good digital watch or radio watch if your that anal about dodging bullets of appointments and zoom meetings. Shit when I was a sales rep in another century , all the reps were peeved we had to carry a dredded pager 📟…. How dare employers keep such close track of you … To me mechanical watches have always fascinated me and accuracy is nice especially if you’ve parted with a good chunk of change for one . Quartz in the 80s when I was in the Business world was a godsend to me in reality. I told my boss I would ring in leads twice a day at a certain time , set to the office quartz clock and Telex machine ! Computers were in cold rooms with line printing no screens .

That's the one.

It depends. I don’t care if a watch runs 1 or 5 seconds fast a day.

I can’t stand watches that are running half a minute fast a day. That’s to much for me

And that is more or less exactly what I do 😉

Ah same as mine, just a different colour

Well let me know how you get on, will be interesting to compare experiences

Nice, I d0 like that in green, don't think it was around when I bought mine. I've followed you so will report back when it finally returns!!

To me, pushing the accuracy of mechanical watches beyond what is practically relevant, seems analogous to increasing the efficiency of steam engines. Surely interesting, but will be met with limited demand.

And I'll bet that those computers were punch-card, and ran on FORTRAN. I have seen one of those computers up close, it was marvelous to behold. 😍 That era of computers was just slightly before my time; my first computer was a Commodore VIC-20, which had a 40-column screen, and ran on a cassette tape drive, LOL. 🤣 It had a whopping 5K memory (You heard right, K) of which, 1.5 was ROM (Read Only) and the other 3.5 was RAM. 😎 Those were the days...

If I’m spending a significant amount of money then I expect to get a product that commensurates in quality across all areas. Part of that expected quality and performance is in the movement and accuracy. The wonder of mechanical watches is how these tiny machines can keep time within certain parameters and I guess if we get something that performs well we can in part justify what we financially outlaid for it. Else we might feel suckered that we paid so much but our timepiece is just an empty shell: exterior beauty but lacking internally.

I had a 9 pin Mona Lisa in dots on my office wall 😂 yep 5 K huge memory hehe

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Yes 🙂 😂

What is wis?

The less of a tool and the kore of a jewelery the watch is, the less accurate it needs to.be, I need my sports watches to be extremely precise, I want my daily watches to be fairly accurate and and am not really bothered about dress watch accuracy

This is reflected in how my sports watches are a smart watch and g shock, my daily wears are a quartz and an accurate auto, and I've never even checked how accurate my dress watch is but it seems to be fine

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