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12 August 2019, 10:47 AM | #31 |
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12 August 2019, 12:43 PM | #33 |
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I love how that is some members' answer to anyone who espouses a desire for accuracy in a mechanical watch. I am not impressed by accuracy alone, I am impressed by accuracy of a purely mechanical device. There is a huge difference.
Doesn't the accuracy of Rolex impress you? Would you spend $8000 on a new Rolex that lost 10 seconds per day. I wouldn't. Because a large part of the allure of Rolex to me is its engineering excellence. Greatly? Really? What's your definition of "greatly?" I don't think that my Rolex which operates at +1.6 s/d will start operating at -10 s/d if I put it on my friend. A well-engineered mechanical watch will minimize the effects of external forces on its performance (not eliminate, but minimize). That's why Rolex will regulate under warranty a watch that operates outside of +/-2 s/d. Now, there probably does exist some person's movements and usage that are so odd that Rolex can't regulate a watch to operate within +/-2 s/day on that person. But that would be an aberration, not normalcy. |
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12 August 2019, 02:25 PM | #36 |
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Rolex Precision -2/+2
24 hour iPhone stopwatch app test showed 4 second loss. 2008 Caliber 3130.
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12 August 2019, 03:15 PM | #37 |
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It has to be more than 7-8s/day. Othervise I would not bother. But happy with this one. BLNR. If wearing 24/7 it gains +2/day, but I usually put in on the nightstand over night crown up, so it's basically +-1s.
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12 August 2019, 04:54 PM | #39 | |
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Yes, greatly. No I wouldn’t expect +1.6 on one person and -10 on another. We are talking a few seconds here, which would be out of tolerances for a Rolex. |
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12 August 2019, 06:19 PM | #40 | |
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This sort of situation is still not 'normalcy' but is much more frequent than an aberration. |
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12 August 2019, 06:58 PM | #41 | |
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12 August 2019, 07:41 PM | #42 |
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For me it was a long journey to accept timing on automatics, Peter @padi56 was a huge help to me in getting me to finally realize it’s only a few seconds.
Here’s my current lineup: Rolex DJII +2.4 SPD (+ 17 secs @7 days ) Tudor Heritage BB -3 SPD ( -21 @7 days ) Omega Seamaster AT GMT -2 SPD (+15 @ 7 days) I pretty sure at the above times I would not send any watch in for service, I have tried different resting positions for all and it seems to not matter, as far as the Rolex when it’s off my wrist resting it is at +/- 0 but gains time wearing so as Peter stated just because it does not gain or lose time off the wrist does not mean that’s true wearing at least for me. I only wear each watch for a week ( Sun - Sun ) then change so if a watch is 15-20 secs slow or fast after a week it’s not the end of the world for me because if I wore it everyday I would just reset it every few weeks I don’t begrudge anyone that holds Rolex to there +/- 2 SPD but life’s to short for me to lose sleep over a few seconds
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12 August 2019, 08:01 PM | #43 |
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most of my watches are kept in a draw of the watch winder, only 4 of them can wind at any time together... In theory even if they all wind perfectly and I wanted to wear a watch outside of the winder I'd need reset it anyway....
quid pro quo....i don't care about regulation as I reset the time often enough on all my watches that it really doesn't stress me. I like the info ref keeping, face up, crown up, crown down though.... thats a good hint i'll test out
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12 August 2019, 09:44 PM | #44 |
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Buy more Rolex. After about 7 you’ll be in sufficient rotation that a second or two a day won't appear on the radar
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13 August 2019, 05:28 AM | #47 |
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A radio-controlled watch is basically a remote display for an atomic clock, so it’s not really a quartz watch at that point. The atomic clock is very accurate though: it will be off by around 1 second per one million years.
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13 August 2019, 05:38 AM | #48 |
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My point was that you don't need to spend thousands to get an extremely accurate non-mechanical watch (as suggested in the post before mines). Btw, I would still consider it a quartz watch since it's battery-powered.
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13 August 2019, 01:20 PM | #49 |
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Spring Drive is a pretty cool computer machine. But, we are talking about the accuracy of a purely mechanical device. A computer is more accurate than a mechanical device; we all know that.
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What's your definition of greatly? True. It is not always the case. However, I think this is the exception rather than the rule. Rolex's acceptance of watches for warranty work that don't meet the +/-2 accuracy level is implicit acknowledgement that Rolex thinks it can regulate just about any new Rolex to within +/-2 for any customer. |
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There have been posts on the spring drive’s poor accuracy but this is also generalising. Precision is not accuracy.
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