Accuracy Update

[mike]

It's been almost two weeks for the 116710. Been wearing it almost 24/7 and so far it's gained ONE second! Man! do I like this watch!!

[gaopa]

Now that is one accurate watch! Also....GREAT image! Cheers, Bill P.

[Tools]

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Not to worry Mike....as the battery runs down it will be spot on...

[BiG JeEzY]

That is spot on accurate!!

Doing the math on that, its basically gains 0.071 seconds a day!!



Just gotta love that new caliber 3186 movement! Its quite a revolutionary movement. I hope they will introduce the blue hairspring to all the other models as well.

[Letsgodiving]

Wow! That is amazing. Are you sure they didn't slip some quartz in that baby when you weren't looking.

[haakon59]

That is wonderful! Wow. Glad this one is working out for you so well.

[DaveN]

My 116713 is still settling down. I hope that I get mine running with near the accuracy of yours.

[SSD]

My 16610 still runs right at +1 sec/day after three weeks. It does not appear, yet, to be affected by positioning. We'll see... Congrats on the excelent accuracy! How DID we get to be such WISs, anyway? It is fun, though

[mike]

Originally Posted by Tools

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Not to worry Mike....as the battery runs down it will be spot on...

[Lol-x]

That's great Mike, so I take it you haven't even laid it down at night to obtain any positional variation adjustment?
Great looking photo by the way.
I haven't worn my Ceramic in over 2 weeks, because I paid $400 for the service of a TAG and it's already gone back twice after service and I'm just testing it out (10 seconds+) per day now before it goes back to TAG again.
Some people are a little cutting about Rolex, but their servicing is like heaven compared to TAG (at least in my experience).
My TAG is marked "chronometer"...yeah right
Anyway, I'm looking to strap the GMT back on.

[SPACE-DWELLER]

That is extraordinary results, Mike!

[mike]

Originally Posted by Lol-x

That's great Mike, so I take it you haven't even laid it down at night to obtain any positional variation adjustment?
Great looking photo by the way.
I haven't worn my Ceramic in over 2 weeks, because I paid $400 for the service of a TAG and it's already gone back twice after service and I'm just testing it out (10 seconds+) per day now before it goes back to TAG again.
Some people are a little cutting about Rolex, but their servicing is like heaven compared to TAG (at least in my experience).
My TAG is marked "chronometer"...yeah right
Anyway, I'm looking to strap the GMT back on.

You know Steve, Bo and I talked about this. For the first couple nights I did, and I swear that's where the second difference came from LOL! I laid it down dial up.
On the wrist It's been amazing. It'll be interesting to see in a few more weeks how it's doing as the movement settles in more.
My experience has been a bit of speeding up after a while.
I must say this is rapidly becomming my favorite modern piece!!

[frostie]

Mike i am amazed i never heard of a thing like that. Do you guys think that this is happening because of the upgrades that the movement had?

[SPACE-DWELLER]

Originally Posted by frostie

Mike i am amazed i never heard of a thing like that. Do you guys think that this is happening because of the upgrades that the movement had?

I would say it has not necessarily got anything to do with the "upgrades" (namely the "parachrom bleu" hair-spring).

Other owners of the new GMT II have reported "bad" timing, in fact down to minus 4 seconds (which IS within the COSC standards, but nevertheless still pretty "bad" timing).

But if you are really lucky, the way the specific watch you buy was actually adjusted - PLUS ÝOUR wearing manners - combine into an incredibly precise running timepiece, as with Mike's GMT II.

BTW: I asked my AD (after I had some correspondance with Mike about this extraordinary precision), and my AD said that the "rules" about being able to regulate the timekeeping of your Rolex by simply putting the watch in various ways on the bedside table ("positional correction") in fact does not really apply to the MODERN movements as they are not easily influenced by positional correction (that is probably also the reason as to why the leaflet with the rules of "positional correction" is also no longer supplied with the "modern" movements of Rolex).

Again a BTW: For those who may not know:

The "positional correction rules" are:

Watch laying FLAT on the table, crystal upwards: Watch will GAIN some secs.

Watch laying HORIZONTALLY with the winding crown DOWNwards:
the watch will lose a couple of secs.

Watch laying HORIZONTALLY with the winding crown UPwards:
the watch will lose some MORE secs.

But as stated, these "positional rules" would tend NOT to work with modern Rolex movements.

BUT: Once your Rolex has "settled in" (say about a months time of wearing it), you can simply go to your AD and let him know what YOUR specific "wearing manners" are (i.e. "office work"? "Active life style" etc., etc.). That way you can actually have the Rolex adjusted to go pretty "spot on"

[Robb]

Originally Posted by Lol-x

That's great Mike, so I take it you haven't even laid it down at night to obtain any positional variation adjustment?
Great looking photo by the way.
I haven't worn my Ceramic in over 2 weeks, because I paid $400 for the service of a TAG and it's already gone back twice after service and I'm just testing it out (10 seconds+) per day now before it goes back to TAG again.
Some people are a little cutting about Rolex, but their servicing is like heaven compared to TAG (at least in my experience).
My TAG is marked "chronometer"...yeah right
Anyway, I'm looking to strap the GMT back on.

Which Tag do you have Steve?

[frostie]

Nice info spacedweller i didn't knew that the positional rules do not apply on new movements

[SPACE-DWELLER]

Originally Posted by frostie

Nice info spacedweller i didn't knew that the positional rules do not apply on new movements

No problem, Velitsko

Please call me Bo

[jac67]

Originally Posted by mike

It's been almost two weeks for the 116710. Been wearing it almost 24/7 and so far it's gained ONE second! Man! do I like this watch

Man, what a piece of junk.

One second in almost 2 weeks, I'd return it for a FULL refund.

On second thoughts, I'll give you $500, and I'll throw in shipping too.

Seriously though, that is damn good accuracy.

I really, really like the new GMT too. Pity it didn't come out before I bought my blue TT Sub.

Wear it in good health, my friend


John.

[Lol-x]

My TAG HEUER is the Tag 6000 Chronometer ETA movement. It was working fine until I took it into TAG.
I really wanted this watch for a long time. Maybe I just need to give it a little time to settle down.