That Eureka Moment

[Victoria]

Signs I am still a newbie:

Until now, I wasn't interested in my watches keeping accurate time. I just wanted them to look good.

But as I become more and more detail-oriented, I want them to be accurate MECHANISMS, as well. So far, having used a COSC guide I found, I have timed my DSN Fiddy, and it loses less than 5 seconds per day! I'd call that pretty good.

Also, I upped my nightly wind from 30 winds, to 60 winds, and the power reserve on the Fiddy is 48 hours and counting. Awesome.

How is that versus yours?

[chris5264]

I've been into watches for years now and consider myself a movement first person...the dial, hands, everything else comes in second. And I've never really cared about the time as long as it is within some reasonable range, say a 30-60 seconds a day. However, the thing about this hobby is that every so often something changes and becomes a new obsession. Who knows,,,perhaps timing is sometime in my future.

[pubus]

its funny when you wind all your watches fully and set the same exact time at the same moment and you leave them for a full 24hr time Ill bet all of them will show different time

The best of mine is my 113 which gains about 2/3mins per day I love it, Im always on time

[t]

you can adjust mostly 6497 movements to 0-5 sec per day... i have some they working +1 sec in 72hours

but it will working different on different wearer

COSC is a different thing... this movements will work on ALL wearer in range of 0-3sec... and it will keep 0-8sec in all positions.

[Raijor]

Anything within a couple of minutes per day is good enough for me. Nothing in my life is so time sensitive that being off a couple of minutes matters at all. I do have a dress Santos Dumont rep that is quartz and it is my most accurate rep. The rest vary from a few seconds to a few minutes per day. Cheers

[Guest carlsbadrolex]

My 188 is accurate to +4 seconds per 24hours with no adjustment past how it was received. I have a UPO that I bought from Flav that is -1 second per 24 without further adjustment. And some days, it gains the second back.

I have always been amazed at how accurate some of the reps can be.

[TwoTone]

My 188 is accurate to +4 seconds per 24hours with no adjustment past how it was received. I have a UPO that I bought from Flav that is -1 second per 24 without further adjustment. And some days, it gains the second back.

I have always been amazed at how accurate some of the reps can be.

Agreed...

My 188 is the same after 2 years...

One of my favorite pieces...

TT

[seraphe]

I'm a lazy collector. Until today, I still have not tested my watches to how accurate they are or how much power reserve.

I don't care much about the time reserves since most of the time I wear the same watch for more than a few days. Approx. 3 watches a week. So that means whenever I change to wearing a different watch, I'm always restarting the watch with a few manual wind and set the time according to my phone or the laptop (which are synchronized).

If it's a manual wind, I'd be winding twice everyday so no issue. If it's automatic, I haven't faced any problem with any rep except the Ingy Chrono.

So I should count myself lucky that most of the reps I own, even the A7750 in the GSTs, are still in great condition.