How accurate is your Rolex

[Silvio Mosiello]

Just a quick forum asking for some pics to show how accurate your Rolex's are. I synced mine with my mac 2 days ago still right on the dot =)

[T-Rip]

I'm +1 second a day....with my DSSD

[gmtm2]

my gmt II C is - 1,5 per day.

[globalmedia33]

My Gmtii c is +1.5 sec/day.

[Chuckaz]

The real question is how accurate is your Mac? ;)

[Andad]

About as accurate as TRF's clock.

[tattooedfagin]

i rarely ever check, i set the time by TRF or Time Ticker & leave it

[padi56]

Originally Posted by tattooedfagin

i rarely ever check, i set the time by TRF or Time Ticker & leave it

Have to agree afraid today many especially new Rolex owners get a obsession with checking there watches many times a day.Myself over the past 30 odd years of wearing Rolex watches know my watches will be within a few seconds a day,and thats good enough for me.Only ever had one regulated and that was a SD.While working as a dive guide and instructor around the middle and far east watch was very accurate.But when I returned to the UK it started to gain around 20- 30 seconds a day I am not anal about accuracy.But I was up London one day so popped into St James they regulated while a waited only thing I could put it down was the dramatic change of temperature in the UK.

[1675-David]

15 sec in a month roughly. However it's not linear, sometimes a second fast sometimes a second or two slow, depends on the position of the watch when laid on my bedside table

[RRGHOST1]

I still find it highly amusing about the fixation people have about the accuracy of their Rolex and the amount of posts concerning this issue. It doesn't really bother me as i just ajust the watch accordingly. I can understand if it was 20-30 seconds a day getting it regulated but seeing as there are 86,400 seconds in a day,its marvelous the accuracy they can achieve anyway.

[Silvio Mosiello]

Im pretty sure the Tourbillions are -2 +3 or even better since It doesn't matter how the watch is positioned. Probably why they never are under 50,000$

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Silvio Mosiello

Im pretty sure the Tourbillions are -2 +3 or even better since It doesn't matter how the watch is positioned. Probably why they never are under 50,000$

Afraid thats a very expencive myth Tourbillons serve no real purpose in a wrist watch at all,only the fact the watchmaker can make them.And you would be quite surprised how many top watch brands Tourbillons are made now in china and they make them very well to equal the Swiss.Why there so much admiration for the tourbillon,perhaps the unquestiond and deserved prestige of Breguet the inventor.But the tourbillon only works best in one position, and in theory the tourbillon is always modifying the slight timing errors in the vertical position.The tourbillon does not correct position variations, it only prevents them being detected in the usual testing conditions. But when placed on say a vibrograph, the tourbillon reveals its weaknesses immediately.The tourbillon does not correct anything,in wrist movements, it only prevents the detection of an error that still exists in natural gravity with wrist movement.The tourbillon is in fact an additional mechanism that consumes energy without producing anything except misinformation.The energy it consumes is taken from the reserve destined to the regulator. As a result, the balance with less energy will have reduced advantages.Now I agree totally the skill needed to make the cage plus tourbillon etc is a great horological skill.But in reality the Tourbillion watch is no more accurate that several other non tourbillon watches and any well regulated chronometer watch.And even todays modern watches,with or without tourbillons are not so accurate as one produced almost 300 years ago by Joth Harrison.Gravity is one of the main causes of rate variations in watches. By creating the tourbillon,when Breguet thought he was eliminating its effects,It looks like it was an big error on his part,he only masked them like tourbillons do.Now if someone could come up and counteract the effect on gravity on a wrist watch.Now that would be a big break though but until then tourbillons IMO are just good to look at,and they are very very very expensive,and they make them because they can.But again looking at the other side of the coin,in Breguets day when he invented the tourbillon and the tools he had then.Now today with modern machines and computers puts a different perspective on the making side of tourbillons today.
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[slcbbrown]

Originally Posted by Silvio Mosiello

Im pretty sure the Tourbillions are -2 +3 or even better since It doesn't matter how the watch is positioned. Probably why they never are under 50,000$

People are making nice tourbillions and absolute junk tourbillions. Same for inhouse movements, actually.

I have very little faith that even the better made watches get a noticeable benefit from a tourbillion. Perhaps, the finest movements with the finest tourbillions can demonstrate an improvement in timekeeping, but the cost and added trouble that will accompany the tourbillion will make it a curiosity rather than a better watch.

[Art 1]

Worst is +2 secs per day, best is almost spot on, maybe a sec or two off each week.

[vette boy 52]

I took my GMTII-c TT on a 2 week business trip recently. Crossed and worked in many time zones on the trip. I used the watch for what it was intended. Kept it on 24/7 pretty much and was +1 second total upon my return home. Now that is accurate and it has been that way since my watchmaker regulated it 3 years ago.

[Jinder]

yep, same here, around 1 second per day off (minus or plus)

[randb]

Spot on since 9/9/11.

[watch watcher]

Never checked. As long as I'm on time for work or appointments, etc., then that's good enough for me.

[knoffie]

I has an explorer 114270 that ran consistently 7 secs per day fast. Just outside COSC specs. It drove me crazy. I know all about the 86,4000 secs per day th9ing but my 14060 and my datejust 16233 (one a chronometer and the other not) both ran withing 2 secs per day for years!
I have been told that modern Rolexes (post 2008) are very, very accurate.
I suppose I could buy a G shock and stop complaining but at the end of the day I want my Rolex to keep accurate time. if I am paying around $6,000 I don think it asking too much
Knoffie

[padi56]

Originally Posted by knoffie

I has an explorer 114270 that ran consistently 7 secs per day fast. Just outside COSC specs. It drove me crazy. I know all about the 86,4000 secs per day th9ing but my 14060 and my datejust 16233 (one a chronometer and the other not) both ran withing 2 secs per day for years!
I have been told that modern Rolexes (post 2008) are very, very accurate.
I suppose I could buy a G shock and stop complaining but at the end of the day I want my Rolex to keep accurate time. if I am paying around $6,000 I don think it asking too much
Knoffie

Well the movement in your sub is exactly the same movement thats in the Explorer only difference the one in sub was not sent for testing.And no matter tested or not, its how well the movement is regulated thats where most of the accuracy comes from.Even some very humble movements if regulated correctly can run too, or inside the COSC spec.

[Puffy]

my newer watches are bang on time COSC, -4 + 6.

DSSD runs +1 / day

Daytona + 2 / day

GV + 1 / day

YM + 5 over 7 days and it's a 10 year old watch that has never been serviced

[guy369]

Mine runs +1.5 seconds a day.

[Dan Pierce]

My Rolex and Tudors all run well within COSC standards.
dP

[mjclark32]

My sub runs about 2-3 seconds fast per day.

[mjclark32]

My sub runs about 2-3 seconds fast per day.

[Watch Professor]

My GMT IIC runs -
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[Watch Professor]

My GMT IIC runs -2sec/24hrs.; my Sub Date is +2.5 sec./24hrs.

[Megalobyte]

Well of course some people do go too far or expect too much, but I don't think wanting to discuss the accuracy of a Rolex, on a Rolex forum, is really that hard to understand. Accuracy does matter, arguably, accuracy is THE most important thing a watch should do.

It's like saying a guy who buys a very expensive high end TV is "obsessed" with picture quality. Who cares about the quality as long as you can see the picture, just enjoy it! What? Your friend's $200 Vizio from SAMs Club has a better picture than your $15,000 set? Who cares, you can still watch your movies, it's good enough, stop obsessing.

Accuracy matters, some watches are more accurate than others, myself, I really appreciate a very accurate watch, it makes me feel like the money I spent actually went somewhere. A big part of why I like mechanical watches is the quality and precision, if I get unlucky and get a Rolex that's losing 5 a day, I could probably learn to live with it, but yeah, it wouldn't impress me or make me as happy as a Rolex that gains under 1 a day. And if you can't discuss accuracy and precision, arguably one of the most crucial attributes of a Rolex watch on, the Rolex forum, exactly where can you?

Some are crazy about it, but most that pose these questions just find it interesting and satisfying to experience, share and discuss the accuracy we're getting from these quite expensive time pieces, nothing wrong with this IMO.

Now, if you're checking your watch 20 times a day, and a daily gain/loss of more than a second drives you nuts, then yes, youve crossed that line, but very few are like that.

[NYC6]

Im a former USN Sailor. While my ship was underway we did time syncs several times a day while doing exercises. Im used to very accurate time keeping. Granted, its not as important in my daily life as aboard a Warship but it is instilled in me. My 2 year old Sub recently started losing 10 seconds a day. Unacceptable. I sent it in to be regulated and checked out. They called yesterday, its ready for pickup. I'll be happy to get it back.

[Sherwooddavid]

Originally Posted by Megalobyte

Well of course some people do go too far or expect too much, but I don't think wanting to discuss the accuracy of a Rolex, on a Rolex forum, is really that hard to understand. Accuracy does matter, arguably, accuracy is THE most important thing a watch should do.

It's like saying a guy who buys a very expensive high end TV is "obsessed" with picture quality. Who cares about the quality as long as you can see the picture, just enjoy it! What? Your friend's $200 Vizio from SAMs Club has a better picture than your $15,000 set? Who cares, you can still watch your movies, it's good enough, stop obsessing.

Accuracy matters, some watches are more accurate than others, myself, I really appreciate a very accurate watch, it makes me feel like the money I spent actually went somewhere. A big part of why I like mechanical watches is the quality and precision, if I get unlucky and get a Rolex that's losing 5 a day, I could probably learn to live with it, but yeah, it wouldn't impress me or make me as happy as a Rolex that gains under 1 a day. And if you can't discuss accuracy and precision, arguably one of the most crucial attributes of a Rolex watch on, the Rolex forum, exactly where can you?

Some are crazy about it, but most that pose these questions just find it interesting and satisfying to experience, share and discuss the accuracy we're getting from these quite expensive time pieces, nothing wrong with this IMO.

Now, if you're checking your watch 20 times a day, and a daily gain/loss of more than a second drives you nuts, then yes, youve crossed that line, but very few are like that.

Well said !