Watch Accuracy

If I lived in a country where everything ran on time, every time then I'd want accuracy to the second.

But the last time I tried to catch a bus, I arrived 10 mins early and the bus never arrived at all. So if my watch is out by a few seconds a day, it makes zero difference to me. I'll still arrive early.

I really don't care but I am impressed.

I am fanatic about accuracy! 🤣 Every watch I own, I doctored around with until I had them within 5 sec/day. I know it's ridiculous but I have only Swiss watches and expect them to be accurate! 🙄

I agree. I have no reason that a few seconds a day would affect my daily life. A few minutes, that could made a difference.l, traveling for instance. I have my phone with me for that. I set my watch to time if it gets off more than 30 seconds just because I find it fun to tinker.

Same here.

If I'm using the bezel to time when something should/or shouldn't be happening, it's dependent on what MY specific worn watch is reading as the time elapsed or counted down.

The watching for magnetism is something I will watch for, but only in a general sense.

If I notice a drastic change when compared to my phone or the fact that it is all of a sudden waaaay more minutes than should be, then I reset, and check on it.

If it’s off just adjust it

I have not reached that level yet 😅

(but I hope I will)

This is me!

Funny, I used to work in a job where there were multiple deadlines all day long and time was of the essence, literally. There were clocks everywhere and I was always on time with everything. I never wore a watch. Now I work in a different job where there are no clocks and no deadlines, but certain regulated activities have to be recorded at the exact time they are done. Ironic, but true. I favor atomic Wave Ceptor Casios for my job, since they are perfectly synched up to the atomic clock every night. Now I'm a fanatic about time precision at work. On my days off, not so much!

IIRC about one in four people are OCD or indignant if the watch is not totally perfect. Another quarter don't care if the watch even tells time at all, and the remainder aren't too fussy about it.

Anything above tolerable is icing on the cake. Minutes per week on a mechanical is bad, minute per month on quartz is bad. I'm blessed not to have a single hacking mechanical watch.

I don’t care either, just as long as it’s not too crazy off. Like it loses minutes per day, but I switch watches too often to care. 🤣😂

I'm the same, I change my watches every single day so accuracy is not particularly important to me. 👊🏻

Like everything else accuracy is relative. 10 - 20 seconds per day do not make much difference. 2 - 3 minutes per day would make me tinker with it until I get a better performance.

It did help me decide to get a Tissot seastar 43mm but after I got it doesn’t really matter + or - 5-10 per day

Yeah, to me you’re odd 😃 20 seconds off per day means the watch will get an instant time grapher adjustment treatment. Having sloppy tools like that limits potential opportunities whether I take advantage of them or not. I don’t wear a watch for decoration, but rather for function.

Well since you have a couple quartz watches, one being a high accuracy quartz, a chronometer, the only time you’d have to worry about accuracy is with the Seiko’s and the Swatch 50 Fathoms.

For most of my watch wearing years, it’s been quartz and a better than COSC mechanical, so I didn’t care about accuracy either until I got into Seiko’s. If I need high accuracy I use my phone, and that’s almost never but it still is very annoying when my $1500 Seiko’s are way off and that’s why I’ve not gotten an Alpinist.

The Alpinist are off by a lot? 🤔

It has a 6R15 movement which is the best of the 6R’s I think but still has a rating +25/-15. I think Seiko could regulate better.

Seiko tends to sand bag their specs way below what they typically perform. Perhaps that’s to manage expectation mitigate cost of returns for customers who tend to run their watches with minimal power reserve. I typically see around +/- 3 on my 4R36 or NH35’s at near full power. Even my GS spring drive is sand bagged with a spec or +/- 10 per month, though it performs dead on +1.5 sec per month with no variation (regulation issue).

Yeah that’s what I kept telling myself, because I love my Seiko’s, the finishing on the case of my SPB 143 is the best of my collection. It makes Rolex and Tudor with their unimaginative slab sides look lazy and pedestrian. The dial on my Presage, well it’s stunning. If it’s on the rotation I have them on a watch winder so it’s not minimally wound.

I almost never have to correct my Rolex, Tudor or even my non COSC Carrera, it’s just annoying I guess, that after a couple weeks it’s more than a minute off (which is well within their specs). It is what is.

Most, 99% of my watches are quartz. I would be horrified if any of them were off by 5 seconds a day. The majority of mine have MB6 so they are within a fraction of a second all the time and the battery and solar quartz within single digit seconds per month. If one of those gets over 30 seconds out between DST changes I would reset it. So I guess I am kind of crazy for accuracy.

I have just set every watch I have to bang on to the second against the atomic clock. They are all on a one month trial to test their accuracy. This will give me an idea if any need servicing.

I'm okay with the watch not being accurate as long as it doesn't get behind the correct time. So I naturally set my slow watches ahead of time and my fast watches bang on time.

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For me accuracy is rather important. Not so for time keeping. If I need to know exact time I can check my phone. For me accuracy is important because of the regulation process. This is one of the last time consuming manual labour involving processes. Especially when speaking about brands like Rolex and Omega. Those are produced on a conveyor belt. To know that there is at least a little bit of manual labour involved is nice.

If were honest, its not about accuracy.

If you truly care about accuracy, a mechanical watch is today, the wrong tool. It's like saying you care,or caring, about the speed in which a message is sent and using a fax machine.

I don’t care at all.

I tend to wear watches for a longer period of time so as long as it isn't off by more than a few minutes in a month I'm fine.