GMTIIC Slow Date Flip - random or constant?

[Sir Larry Wildman]

I know from being on this forum a long time that the slow date flip between 12-2 AM is fairly common for a GMTIIC, with there being too much oil causing the date wheel to not just flip over. Well after 8 months of GMT BLNR ownership, I witnessed mine doing it. I suppose I never really look at it past 12 AM religiously, so there's no real reason I would have ever noticed it. I know I have been out past midnight before, and have never seen it, so it certainly wasn't an all the time thing.

I read through the forums, and took the advice: cycled through the date 3x (so, 3 months worth) in position 2, as well as 1x in position 3 just for good measure. However, I didn't witness the date being slow between 12-2 during any of those rotations. Is that strange? Is this ever just a one off issue? From reading, people would see it be slow, and then go back and forth on the slow dates. Nothing like that for me. Every time, the date flip was perfect. That's why I did it a fourth time in position 3. Each time I did it, the date flipped at 12 on the nose.

This is more of an OCD question, because I really don't intend to crack it open. The watch runs at +0.5 second/day, and I am really thrilled with every other part of the watch. And if it has taken me 8 months to notice it, then I don't want to make too much of this, but I am curious!