Re: It's an impossibility...
: I once asked our watch repairer about this. You
: will find that it occurs with probably every
: brand that produces a quartz wristewatch.
: His answer- gravity. Yep. If you place the
: watch face down on a table-top you may find
: that it doesn't occur. But when the watch is
: on your wrist and you lift up your arm to
: look at the time, you may find that, between
: the 30 second marker and the 60 second
: marker, the second hand will not line up
: with the markers on the dial. It's annoying,
: but unavoidable. The second hand, though
: very small, STILL weighs a little bit and
: the stem that the second hand rests on has
: to work that little bit harder to power the
: hand around the dial. I though ti sounded
: improbable when he told me this, but then I
: thought; "Well, it's possible."
: While modern watchmaking is a technological
: marvel, I'm sure that it's not an exact
: science. Also, any jarring that the watch
: may have encountered before it ended up on
: your wrist may have had something to do with
: it.
: This is all just my 2c and I could be wrong (I
: probably am), but ask as many watch-makers
: as you can to see if there is one definitive
: answer to this.
Actually, your explanation makes more sense than any I have heard before. Still, what seems to be so puzzling is the fact that I can look at my Dad's SMP quartz from a "dead on" view from the top while it is resting flat on a table. The markers and second hand will not line up exactly. I do the same thing with his beat up old Seiko or my beat up old Swatch and the second hand hits dead-on. I just can't believe it's an optical illusion since I'm viewing the watches from the exact same vantage point. Hmmmm....
