Anomaly

[Mike I]

New Sub Date: Sometimes the minute hand arrives at the minute marker at the same time the second hand strikes 12 and sometimes it doesn’t. Is this unusual? Does anyone have an explanation?

[Andad]

Slight play in the gear train?

[Jster]

That’s a pretty common trait with my watches.

[ratty]

My Sub Date does this, I find it quite aggravating!

[47Fountain]

OP needs to find something more to occupy his time.

[George58]

it is not the slack in the gear train when a watch is running only comes into palay seting the time
some dials the second markers are a hair off from others on the dial

[daysky1]

If you are viewing the minute hand at exactly the same angle every time then you can say definitely this is happening. Perhaps you have a slightly different angle of view sometimes...I just checked my GMT with a 10X Belomo triplet loupe on the minute hand and noticed even a slight viewing angle changes the results.

[MrGoat]

Wouldn’t this be relative to where the second hand was when you set the minute and hour hand on the watch? Is one supposed to stop the second hand at the 12 o’clock position when setting the time?


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[ratty]

Originally Posted by MrGoat

Wouldn’t this be relative to where the second hand was when you set the minute and hour hand on the watch? Is one supposed to stop the second hand at the 12 o’clock position when setting the time?


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At the risk of sounding REALLY sad, I've found that if you hack the second hand at 12 o'clock with the minute hand exactly on the minute marker, the second hand will lag behind the minute hand. I've found that it's better to hack the second hand at about 8 seconds before 12 o'clock with the minute hand on the minute marker.

Obviously when the crown is pushed in the second hand engages with the minute hand via gears. I would like to hear a watchmaker's views on this, but there appears to be about 6 seconds difference per gear tooth.

There, as I said, REALLY sad!!!