Tudor Pelagos Demagnetized Results

[Spikedlee]

A few months back I picked up a brand new Tudor Pelagos which was running at an amazing +2 seconds per 24 hours consistently. During the past few weeks, I noticed that it had accelerated to +6 seconds per 24 hours consistently, which although still was within COSC specs for a non-COSC spec watch, I was curious as to how it was able to jump that much and considered the movement to just have "settled in". The good news was that the timing was consistent. The bad news is I wanted more accuracy.

I started reading up online about the potential of the watch being magnetized. I do a pretty good job of keeping the watch away from any type of magnet, and thought that in addition to being cautious, the watch was made out of titanium it was amagnetic.

I put the watch up to my iphone compass and saw a bit of movement but nothing drastic. I then realized that I wear the watch a lot when using my Macbook air, which has a magnetic power port, and a magnetic lid. To spot check if the watch was really magnetized, I bought an electronic demagnetizer from Amazon and ran the Pelagos through it last night at 9 PM. It is 6:30 PM the next day and the watch has only gained about 1.5 seconds which means that it is back on par with the original timing.

I'm pretty pleased with the results and wanted to share this with all of you in case you ever catch your watch running fast due to potential magnetism. I know people talk about huge swings like gaining +1 minute per 24 hours, or +1 minute every couple of hours, but my belief is that it doesn't even need to be that drastic of a move for the watch to have been magnetized.