Second hand at 12 when setting time?

I always do this.  My OCD will not allow for anything else.

Absolutely set my watch to the second every morning (I rotate through several watches so each day I need to set the watch for that day) 

And... I set it to https://www.time.gov/ 

I don't bother with the seconds so much. Since they gain our lose a few seconds a day anyway, it will be off within a few hours. If anything, they get closer rather than further away as the day progresses.

Minute accuracy is enough. Happy to save up to 59 seconds in the morning routine.

 Yes, of course. There's another way to do it? And the minute hand has to hit the marker when the seconds hand is at 12. I get seriously anal about getting that right. And if it doesn't hit the marker as the minute hand goes around the dial, I go bats. Usually I think it's just appearance due to parallax error, but I have a Hamilton whose minute track is just off.

Never!!!!

I usually set my watch to the exact second using an atomic time app. I set the minute hand to the exact upcoming minute then wait for the second hand to reach 12 before I push in the crown. On some watches, when the crown is pushed in, the minute hand may jump a fraction of a second, so when I wear those watches, I try to set the minute hand in a position to try to offset that inevitable jump. There's something satisfying about seeing the minute hand point exactly to a minute marker when the seconds hand sweeps by the 12 oclock marker.

Yup! As long as it's hacking.

Every. Single. Time. I will wait a whole 59 seconds if I miss it the first time while winding the movement.

I always do this. You are fine (in so much as any of us are)

Guilty

My OCD wouldn't allow it any other way 🤣

I always do this but I’ll probably allow +/- 1 second around the 12 o’clock  position 😂

I can top these. I’ll pull the crown at straight up 12 to stop the second hand then I’ll set the minute about two minutes ahead according to time.gov. I’ll zoom in using my phone to make sure the minute hand is square on the marker and wait to push in the crown at the exact moment.  OCD at its finest…

I wish I didn’t have to do this, but I must

I don’t have to set it to the 12 but I do hack it and set to the second via the iOS icon with the sweeping seconds hand. 
 

OCD is a sickness that probably attracts a lot of us watch nuts. 

What are you setting time to, what is the source, I mean even if you set it to 9:06, who is to say that the clock you're using for setting isn't 9:06:45, etc. LOL. Seriously as others have said, most. watches are + or _ 8 seconds per day so it seems gratuitous to hold or pull crown at 12. 

Yep. Every single time. I love my reverso but dislike that it doesn’t hack. For that one, when the watch is dead I start the wind about 3 seconds early to get things moving and try to time it perfectly 😀.  

…some people just watch the world burn! 😂😂😂 my ocd would never allow me to live with such chaos. 

I'm sure that many people like myself who are anal about setting the exact time use an atomic time app, which is accurate to the second (and shows you how much the time on your phone deviates from that time).  There are also web sites such as https://time.is/ that show the exact time. FWIW, I consider a watch that gains or loses 8 SPD to be borderline - most of mine are well within COSC specs and out by no more than 2 SPD. I have absolutely zero need to ever know the exact time, but appreciate knowing that my watch is as close to the exact time as possible. 

Ah understood. Mine are: Tudor Pleagos, Rolex Sub (no date), and Seiko SPB 143. Well the Seiko is all over on plus or minus...the other two? COSC Certified. 

I also synchronize it to time.gov

Undoubtedly. One of the reasons I sold my SKX as it didn’t have hacking so couldn’t wait for the second hand to be at 12……. It’s not OCD, it’s just right.

I didn't realize people *didn't* do this. It's a great way to make sure the minute hand is perfectly aligned with the markers (unless you have a Timex, then you just pray)

O 100% I do. To me its more to ensure the watch is set to exactly the correct time, so much so that I visit Time.is to ensure its totally accurate. Do I have OCD?? I think I might lol 

With a quartz watch I'll get fussy because, well, it's a quartz. With my mechanical watches if they are still on the correct minute at the end of the week it's a win.

Of course I wait until the seconds hand is at 12 O’Clock. I am not a barbarian! I don’t mind if the time on my watch is a little out, but I do mind if the minute hand isn’t aligned with the minute marker every 60 seconds. 
On my less accurate watches I will just set it to the nearest time reference (bedside alarm, other watch, phone, microwave, whatever).

For my more accurate watches I use time.is

I also have a weird habit of setting it against my phone‘s clock to be about 30 seconds ahead, like that’s going to help me be a littler early to something. We’re all weird. 

100% dont see why you wouldnt do this for hacking watches. In fact for my non hacking watches I wait till they are out of power, then I watch the atomic clock and when it hits the same seconds as my seconds hand I kick start the movement to sync them. I have enough watches that mine run out of power though. If I only had one nonhacking watch I might just loose my mind haha.

I certainly could not be bothered 

You are not alone. I do the same. I also set the watch at a multiple of 5 minutes because it is easier to see the larger markers and align them with the minute hand.