How accurate is your watch?

[Asterix]

My Tag Carrera Chrono has only lost about 30secs over about 3weeks - I can't remember exactly. I think this is quite good? The experts on here maybe able to shed more light.

So as an experiment I have just reset it syncronised with my lap top which in turn, is synced once a day with an internet time server.

Ok so, it was reset at exactly 1:45pm Friday, 7th September Dubai time as a reference.

Let's see how it does overthe coming days or maybe a week.

Please feel free to join in.

[sb-1]

That is very good for a mechanical watch.
+ or - 2-3 seconds a day is what a good mechanical watch should be capable of I think.

Steve

[Moose.]

Utter crap. My Seiko Monster (7S26 movement) gains 30 seconds per day! One day I'll buy something more accurate.....

[Bungleaio]

I've not really looked at mine but now you mention it my watch is behind the time on my PC. It's only about 3 mins though.

It's an accurist chrono and I've been wearing it daily for about 3 years now, i think its on the original battery and I only adjust it for BST

[Don1]

My Breitling is perfect compared to my Quartz watches. The Omega is 3 mins a month out.

[sparkyhx]

Since my ORIS TT has started to share wrist time with my GP its running average <+2secs per day, the GP runs about the same. But then there is a tenfold difference in price.

The ORIS used to run about average 8 secs slow per day.

[Pesty]

Moose. said:

Utter crap. My Seiko Monster (7S26 movement) gains 30 seconds per day! One day I'll buy something more accurate.....

my seiko diver automatic with same movement gains 2 secs in 24hours

[merlin-thewizard]

My Casio Waveceptor is very accurate as it resets itself every night using the atomic clock time signal.

[Dominic H]

Moose. said:

Utter crap. My Seiko Monster (7S26 movement) gains 30 seconds per day! One day I'll buy something more accurate.....

I think yours needs a service....

[B.Ashley]

Mine loses about 2.4 seconds a day. Some weeks its a real issue etc trying to wake up on time.

[speedtwelve]

My Fortis Cosmonaut automatic gains around 15 secs a day. It was + 20 secs/day when new, but I've been wearing it a year now and it's settled down.

Reckon I should get it adjusted?

[Freddie von Rost]

Speedmaster Reduced. Automatic. Less than a minute a month. Not bad for a non COSC ticker.

[Moose.]

Dominic H said:

Moose. said:

Utter crap. My Seiko Monster (7S26 movement) gains 30 seconds per day! One day I'll buy something more accurate.....

I think yours needs a service....

You're probably right! Where's a good place to get that done, any of the high street jewelers? or direct to Seiko? although they don't sell automatics in this country any more, I got it direct from Japan.

[Asterix]

Been nearly 27hrs since the reset and from what I can see by the naked eye - I'd say that the watch has lost less than half a second - if that!

Seems I have an abnormal mechanical watch!

[Dominic H]

Moose. said:

Dominic H said:

Moose. said:

Utter crap. My Seiko Monster (7S26 movement) gains 30 seconds per day! One day I'll buy something more accurate.....

I think yours needs a service....

You're probably right! Where's a good place to get that done, any of the high street jewelers? or direct to Seiko? although they don't sell automatics in this country any more, I got it direct from Japan.

E-mail Seiko UK at...

[e-mail]

Should be straightforward, even if it is not a UK watch they should be able to service the watch.Have a look at the Seiko UK website and give them a call.

Dominic

[x200sxy]

My Breitling Pilot (18 months old) is accurate to between 1 and 1.5 seconds per day. I wear it once or twice a week (every day watch is Citizen Eco-drive calibre 8700) and it spends the rest of its life on a winder.

[arej]

My Breitling Aerospace is perfect - spot on after months it isn't mechanical though unfortunately

[jshell]

B.Ashley said:

Mine loses about 2.4 seconds a day. Some weeks its a real issue etc trying to wake up on time.

I appreciated the sarcasm, even if no-one else did.......

[Jase k]

Got a mechanical Tag 2000 series that loses about 3-4 secs a day (7 yrs old due a service) a breitling crono cockpit auto that gains about a second per day (3 yrs old), and a rolex sub ( 50 anniv new ) which i havent worn long enough to find out yet!!!

[lowdrag]

Hmm, get a life some of you! My Superocean loses "a bit". Frankly I take no notice of how much because I am busy actually living and couldn't really care one jot. If I wanted an accurate watch I'd either carry a blackberry permanently logged on to the atomic clock or a quartz cheapo. Does it really matter? We buy mechanical watches for their aesthetic beauty, to know that within something made by hand beats, not an electronic machine. I am not a number, I am a free man and all that crap. Yes, most of our watches are defined as chronometers and have passed the test, but really, do you actually notice 15 secs a day and take the time to work it out and calculate it?