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I'm assuming you own an automatic, not a quartz. If its quartz, it could be right on for a long time...a month or more 'til you notice a deviation.
If auto, there really is no way to tell what will happen in the near term. From my experience (Omega SMP and GMT), watches slow down a bit within 2 months of being new. Some readers report them speeding up.
If you are interested in tracking how your watch is doing, I offer a free excel spreadsheet with formulas and graphs all built-in...all you have to do is fill in the start time and end time of a test, and how much error there was between those two times. It will then tell you the accuracy in sec/day and graph the results. For example, at 12:35 PM, july 13, 2006 you synchronize your watch, and enter this in the spreadsheet. Then, at 2:46 PM, july 23, 2006 you decide to check against atomic time. You enter the end-date/time and the error....suppose it's fast 8 seconds. My spreadsheet will tell you that the span of time for the test was 242 hours and 21 minutes, and that the error was equivalent to +0.79 sec/day. When you do this repeatedly, you get a very clear picture of how the watch is performing.
...free to anyone who emails me with a request for the spreadsheet...
Cheers,
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