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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not bad at all. This level of watch should typically be +/- 15 seconds a day, so you're well within that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Thatโ€™s good to know. Iโ€™ll have to remember to change the time every so often to make it accurate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To my knowledge, the only automatic movement that is going to be notably better in terms of accuracy is Seikoโ€™s Spring Drive, which will get you to +/-15s per month. Itโ€™s actually a fascinating bit of mechanical and electrical engineering, and one of the few real innovations that have occurred in mechanical watchmaking in quite a long time.

In terms of adjustment: I usually set my watch a tad fast (i.e. round up to the nearest minute) on my seiko, because it doesnโ€™t have hacking seconds and is kinda fiddly to get it to sync super precisely, and then just tweak it when I notice the time getting out of whack with what my phone or computer says.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Seiko 5 SNKL looses approx 1 minute a week.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How often do you correct it?

I know Iโ€™m overthinking this but thatโ€™s what I do. ๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not often ๐Ÿ˜‰ I have 2 automatics, 1 kinetic and 1 g-shock. The automatics wear ik most of the time 1 or 2 weeks. So I don't adjust them in that period. My Vostock is approx 1 minute ahead per week.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, the way a spring drive works is that it's really just a quartz movement, but the power comes from the watch movement.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just like a kinetic, but much more accurate

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's not bad. Mine is closer to 3, some are just tighter than others. I set the time every couple weeks.