This made me smile — I love the way you broke this down my man (love data). Like you, I didn’t give much thought to the accuracy + PR combo until I actually owned a watch that offered both (my dual-barreled Planet Ocean 42mm 8500), and now that combo is an extremely nice-to-have, with Chronometer at a minimum for any watch I consider a daily. Chronometer is -4/+6 and those I’ve owned in the past have been all over the place within those limits. Grand Seiko Hi-Beat is -3/+5 over 3 days, never owned one but have always been tempted by the Shosho (tangentially, I also prefer Hi-Beat and traditional mechanicals to Spring Drive personally). METAS is 0/+6 over 55 hours and most of mine consistently run within +1 with the accuracy approaching the limit as the reserve winds down. Superlative is -2/+2 over 70 hours, most of mine run at close to 0 with the accuracy hitting the limit as the PR winds down.
Chronograph to time stuff. GMTs for travel and coordinate with teams globally (also why I favor GMTs or watches with jump hour). Divers on beach holidays. So yes.
But the aesthetics help 😉
The banner had me cracking up 😂 #WheresWaldo
My submission:
Accuracy, extremely important — I wear my mechanical watches as dailies and time my life/work by them. 3-day power reserve is a VERY nice to have, but not necessary…especially if you regularly wear just the one watch. For me, COSC is a minimum, Superlative preferred, especially if I’m dropping more than a couple of hundred on a watch.
Having both is a convenience that’s definitely missed once you’ve experienced it (the past month I’ve been rotating between my Luminor and Explorer II and not had to wind or set the watches once, even when I’d leave either sitting for the weekend (granted the Luminor isn’t as accurate as the Explorer II, which is still running at close to 0spd a few weeks in).
The dial is something else in person, changes colors very subtly between petrol green and black — it’s probably one of my favorite green dials (other than the Chopard Alpine Eagle, which is a god-tier dial).
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