Overshot and retract?
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Jojo
Casual watch enthusiast. Loves Seiko and Casio. Also loves watching watch restoration videos for some reason.
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Nope, I hack the seconds at 60, and then set the time to the nearest minute. Ie. If it's 13:23:20 I set my hacked watch to 13:24 and wait until the time catches up.
Well... these days I hack at 60, then set the watch to the nearest minute, and start it however early it is... a few seconds here or there isn't that important.
Not consciously, no
I do that, move the minute hand past the desired time and then dial it back to set. I thought it was supposed to be good practice (can’t remember where I saw that though)
I've read that that going clockwise past and counter-clockwise back to time supposedly gets rid of "gear slack"...
No, but there are times when I've been affected by the mysterious " 5 minutes off" gremlin, only noticed long after I set the watch.
Kind of like the "my quartz watch id dead" gremlin where you swear the hand isn't ticking-and then it ticks.