Magnetism Scare!

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My SD gave me a real scare last week when it’s normally impeccable accuracy was abruptly interrupted. It consistently runs at < 1 sec deviation / day, but when I checked it against my computer’s clock it was 30 seconds fast. Over the course of the day it continued to gain time and generally act erratically.

Although I couldn’t pinpoint a source, my suspicion from the behavior was that it had been magnetized! I’ve read that magnetism can be diagnosed with a compass, but I didn’t have one handy. Well I didn’t have the time to fiddle with it too much so I tossed it in a drawer and slapped on my Garmin Forerunner. About a week later I wound it up to check the accuracy, and it was back to running fine! It’s been keeping great time now, on par with where it was before.

I can’t explain what caused the watch to run so erratically, but to the SD’s credit it’s pulled through! Glad to have it back on the wrist, and I may appreciate it even more after the scare!