How important is accuracy to you?

It is nice to have a accurate watch, but it is not a deal breaker. I don't own a time grapher and have no desire to get one, so I just eyeball the accuracy and compared to my cell phone. My Omega Aqua Terra runs about 1 second fast per 1 to 2 days, but both of my Seiko watches keep terrible time running about 45 seconds fast per day and I still wear them. If accuracy was highly important to me I would just buy quartz watches or just use my cell phone to keep time.

"If accuracy was highly important to me I would just buy quartz watches or just use my cell phone to keep time."

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This,right here.

It didn’t have to be crazy spot on. But it can’t be loosing an hr a day either lol

Kinda surprised your Sinn is deviating more than your Seiko, to be honest. I thought Sinn regulates their watches?

My Orient is minus 2 on wrist, minus ten if left on its side overnight, but plus 8 if left face up instead. It drives me barmy.

So I am reassured when I see other watches all over the place like this. Thanks.

I’m always early, even with an accurate time keeper ;-)

I'm mainly interested in on-wrist accuracy over a day or two. I rotate watches almost every day and each watch is almost always stopped by the time it's worn again. As long as it doesn't stray more than 5 seconds from atomic time while wearing, I'm okay with it.

I find it interesting and if course its relevant to our hobby. But I have no intention of measuring it accurately myself.

As far as I'm aware my datejust and Tudors are accurate to + or -2 and they certainly seem that way.

I wouldn't mind betting several of my vintage seikos courtesy of @GasWorks also run very accurately.

The only watch I have that noticeably gains a couple of minutes every few days is my Komanderski but it won't stop me wearing it. I just put the minute hand back a bit.

So I'm pretty laid back about it although impressed by mechanical accuracy as a feat of engineering!

I have my phone for accuracy.

I work a 12 hour day, minutes feel an irrelevance.

As long as I'm looking good with it, I'm happy. 😀

Guys. What is the best timegrapher app for iPhone at the moment?

Accuracy is a detail to me. It's way way down on my list of criteria to buy a watch. I don't mind a watch losing 10-30 seconds by the end of the day since I'll just put it back in the watch box and pick up another watch from the collection in the morning.

If I ever needed to do a task that requires precision down to the second, I would simply use my phone.

It depends on how long I plan on wearing a watch for. Dress watches don't need to be very accurate as I will probably wind it set the time and only wear it for that occasion. A daily wear watch should be accurate enough that I don't have to set the time more than once per week so no worse than 10-15spd maximum.

I wear a watch for no more than 3 days in a row. I have a dirty dozen omega and it is 5 minutes slow a day. I still love it.

I like watch accuracy meter.

This thing keeps accurate time in 4 dimensions. Apparently from Fort Collin’s.

My standard for mechanical watches is "Does it pass the smile test?"

I always reset the time compared to my phone at the start of the week, and occasionally informally check the watch against the phone.

If the second hand of the watch is between the 15 and 45 second positions on the dial (The Smile), and the watch reads the same minute as the phone, then it's good.

If the watch cannot pass the smile test for a whole week, then it's a candidate for a lobotom-... I mean, regulation.

Smile!

I don’t care that much about daily accuracy for my automatics. I’ll reset the time (if needed) when I reset the date every other month.

For my super quartz, I’m really picky about accuracy.

All my watches are extremely accurate thanks to being quartz / digital. But I’m always running late, because life — so it’s very anticlimactic 😂

I check my watch to the second 2x a day. It makes me so happy because I got what I paid for. Seiko SLA063 My vintage watches I like to see within a few minutes. I don’t really care about accuracy with them. I’m equally in love with them.

I don’t get those who are unconcerned about watch accuracy. There was me thinking that telling the time is the primary function of a watch.

Because of Seiko’s (often lack of) accuracy the only watch that I now have with a Seiko movement is a Nodus as they regulate them to (I think) 10 seconds/day.

My 2 Sinn’s , 2 Longines, one of my CW’s, Oris and Hanhart all run at a few seconds/day.

The only watch that I have which I would call inaccurate is a CW Sealander which runs at +10 and it sort of bugs me.

If you had paid £5000 for a watch would you be unconcerned if it was inaccurate.

At what cost is accuracy important.

If it was I'd be all over buying a JDM citizen chronomaster (probably the eco drive version) and be done with watch collecting. My seiko is absolutely dreadful and currently about 35-40+ seconds a day. It's very noticeable. But it is VERY pretty, so there's that.

Au contraire mon ami!

Some of us do buy mechanical watches precisely because they can be accurate. And that’s what makes them fun. I love a mechanical watch that only gains or loses a couple of seconds a day…or a week…or months.

I can understand if someone says they’re “unconcerned” about accuracy — that’s a totally subjective statement. But to make definitive statements such as accuracy being unimportant to a hobby centered around timekeeping is baffling. To also say accuracy is not the point of mechanical watchmaking just because quartz watches exist is also a head-scratcher — it’s two different technologies; there’s no point to electric cars because most gas guzzlers are faster? What if a person only wanted the one mechanical watch and none other; the best mechanicals keep extremely accurate time and are easily capable of being your only watch. It’s one of many important aspects of the hobby, and though your mileage may vary, to say ‘it’s not the point’ does not compute.

I change the watch every day anyway, so if it runs within a minute a day I'm fine.

My Sinn 104 was also highly accurate…. I sold it due to it just being too big for my personal taste but I did love it none the less :)

I like accuracy, but that’s just one of the many factors I consider, so definitely not a deal breaker. But I prefer a watch that gains 15 secs per day than one that loses 5. I’m sick, I know.

And yet that $20,000 watch is less accurate than the ones mentioned. I'm just stating facts

10s a day (COSC) is what I expect. For me the whole beauty of mechanical watches is an engineering mastery closed in a well designed and finished case. It’s an AND not OR. Inaccurate watch is just a fancy, ticking bracelet. A mechanical watch has to be accurate to be both useful and show great engineering.