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Re: Omega Seamaster accuracy--too good to be true?

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: My watch is pretty accurate if I wear it
: without winding it manually. Strangely
: enough, it goes completely haywire and gains
: around 5 seconds within 3 hours, everytime
: it is wound manually. How can this happen? I
: can't imagine that I'm overwinding it.

You can't overwind it since the watch has a built-in overwind protection mechanism. It is odd that keeping it wound by wearing it causes you no problems yet manually winding it causes a quick 5 second jump. You might want to have a competent watchmaker open it up and have a look.

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Omega Seamaster accuracy--too good to be true?

Re: Omega Seamaster accuracy--too good to be true?

Accuracy can never be "too good"

Re: Accuracy can never be "too good"

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1 wallclock secs ( 0.17 usr + 0.02 sys = 0.19 CPU)