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: about 4-5 seconds a day). I normally don't
: wear it much during the weekends (about
: 3-4hrs), do you think that has anything to
: do with it?

Yes, probably that is the entire problem. Your watch gets power-starved if not kept sufficiently wound, so will lose time.

A watch is like a flashlight and not like a car. A car will run normally as its power supply (gas tank) depletes. Only when it is down to the last few drops does the car start to misperform and then do an sudden, immediate stop. But a watch is like a flashlight instead--as its power supply (battery) grows weaker, its performance slowly degrades (light gets dimmer) until it eventually totally fades out.

So as your watch gets very low on power, it will start to lose significant time, yet keep running so that it is not obvious that it is running out of power.

Further, putting the watch back on your wrist is NOT like replacing a flashlight battery or refilling your car with gas--both of those instantly totally replentish the power suply of those devices. But an automatic watch SLOWLY recharges itself from your body movement. Even wearign a watch for 24 hours is NOT enough to return it to the FULL state. So it may receive a small amount of power to keep going, but it is still at the bottom of the tank on its reserves, so will still be below par on performance.

To gas-up your watch for max performance, when you take your watch off Friday night, give it a manual wind of 20-30 turns. Do the same Monday morning when you put it back on for the week.