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COSC...(more)...
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Yes the watch is tested in several positions and at different temps. This is for consistency of timekeeping...not accuracy. Any watch can be regulated to be accurate in one position. A watch has to be adjusted to be consistent a much more involved process. Whether your watch runs fast or slow is really irrelevant...it can be easily made to run accurately. If it deviates from the regulation more than a few seconds from position to position or if temperature affects consistency greatly then you have a real problem. Some say that the COSC cert is unimportant. I say that it is. A watch varies position hundreds of times a day, you need it to be consistently fast, dead on or slow....again speed can be easily fixed.

Dave

: If anybody read anything about the COSC test is
: that the watch is tested in multiple
: position and different temperatures... For
: it to pass COSC

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