How accurate do you keep your watch?

Depends what I'm wearing - I have different expectations for different watches.

My Seiko's drift by upto 20+ seconds per day & it doesn't bother me as I reset every time I wear a watch. My Co-axial Omega deviates by fractions per day and I'd be bitterly disappointed if it ran with Seiko accuracy...

I have no COSC/chronometer 😅So all my NH/Sellita drift every 2 weeks or so. But I love the rotation every week or 2 so that cancels the issue.

+-1min

As others said it depends the watch (ik you said most worn but I have pretty equal time between 5 of them lmao)

Gshock and smartwatch need to be pretty spot on. My dailies should be accurate too but not as critical.

Dress watch accuracy isn't as much of an issue for me but still no more than 5 min off

30 seconds max for me on my automatic watches. 5 seconds for a digital.

0 to +1min for me.

30 seconds or less at the absolute max for a mechanical and just a few for a quartz. Always prefer them to be running fast than slow.

Ditto!

I set my watches to within a minute. I don’t do anything that requires to-the-second accuracy. I rotate through my watches, so daily accuracy doesn’t really matter to me.

Usually I set the watch for 2-3 minutes in advance and when/if we get to correct time or +5 minutes in advance I correct it again. But this rarely happens due to frequent rotation combined with quite decent accuracy performance of my watches.

+/- 5 minutes seriously? If that was even a thought I would never have worn a watch. In my lifetime I have worn a watch since I was about 11 or 12 daily for the purpose of being on time. In my world 5 minute plus or minus is not on time. Most of my watches are MB6 so always within a fraction of a second. My solar quartz watches I keep to within +/- 20 seconds. If I wear a mechanical and it is rare, I set it to the second, if it gets 20 seconds out I reset it. If it does that in the space of a day I ditch it. I am also prior military so extreme punctuality is a real thing with me.

You probably meant "seconds", not "minutes", didn't you? There is a huge gap in the possible answers.

I am happy with a 15 seconds difference, no more.

I also keep my watches in the range of 0 to +20 seconds for the sake of always being on time. I’ll probably be making another poll with a smaller range. To bad watch crunch only allows for 4 options. So main takeaway of this poll are the percentages of people not worrying too much about setting the time (27%), people with self synchronizing watches (10%), and the lack thereof people who care about setting the time be not enough to keep it under 5 minutes.

This is a poll I did a while back in a Thai FB group. You might find this surprising, as I did, that most watch collectors only keep their watch to only within 5 minutes. Too bad watch crunch does not allow for more than 4 options.

The original poll is in Thai so please don’t mind the mistakes made by machine translation.

I like my watches to be less than 10 sec off. I enjoy synchronizing the time. It nerds out the little OCD in me.

Interesting! I would have not imagined. We are probably too nerdy here... 🤣

For work I like to be very very close to ‘atomic’ or true time or whatever you call it, meaning starting a shift within two seconds. Outside work I get squeamish if it’s off by 20 seconds, sometimes less.

I can be a bit crazy for accuracy (for very little reason if any).

Usually when the watch is more than 1 minute off.. because I rarely wear the same watch more than one day in a row, I usually set the time before I wear it.

I never really wear my mechanical watches multiple days in a row, so I set them every time I wear them. My Casios I set every 3-6 months and I find them being off by just a few seconds.

None of the options really apply. Of my assortment of eight mechanical watches, all but 1 will have stopped between wears. So then when I do put it back on, I set it accurately and wear it for the day. Accuracy doesn't really matter when you only wear the watch for a day.

My Air King has been kept running since I collected it on 3rd Jan, purely because I wear it so often (at least every 3 days). I last set it on 2nd Feb and it's currently -17 seconds (an average of -0.89spd). If it gets to -30s then i'll set it again.