You should demag on a regular basis (at least I should).
I’m in Silicon Valley and in high-tech sales, 2 phones, constantly on a laptop, iPad, wifi speakers and countless other hidden magnets. With that as my normal daily life I’ve done the following every day this week, put my watch on the time-grapher and degauss and back to the graphed. Every watch improves, some just a tiny amount but they improve.
I’m going to make this a regular part of my watch maintenance and do it monthly or so and more with the watches I wear the most.
The 2 machines cost a total of about $125.
Think about it if you like to do mechanical stuff like me.
I’ve worn watches my whole life with some Rolexs bought 40 years ago when an average employed guy could afford them and Seikos a Timex or two long gone. Nothing special until I recently got a little m...
Absent mindedly took watch off, put it down. Next day realised it was next to an Amazon echo.
Demagged that without even bothering to put it on timegrapher.
Where did you find a timegrapher that cheap, because all the ones I see are $140 and up?
Ive put my watch on my laptop cover to take photos a few times, and then accidentally discovered how much of a mistake I made when I put a spoon on the laptop and it stood on its end!
This post is a great reminder to demagnetise that watch...
The one that blows my mind is a watch box with magnet fasteners for the lid?!
Also so many kids toys are magnetic, it's a war zone out there for magnets!
Is it that bad? Surely unless you leave your watch next to a magnet overnight, you’re probably sound. Also, those demag machines can do as much damage as good. They are a magnetiser/demagnetiser, depending on how you use them, and generate a far stronger field than anything in a laptop. I’m sure you guys know what you are doing, but when I first got one I saw a lot of conflicting information on how they operate. In the end, holding the button down and moving the watch into as many different orientations was what worked.
One reason more to love my GS quartz:-)