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Helpful Suggestion for Accuracy Fanatics (Like Me)

Some folks with automatic watches have a niggling concern about the inherent inaccuracies of an automatic watch relative to a quartz watch. Derek has some good suggestions in his watch guide that can help mitigate the problem (if, for example, your watch gains time during the day, find a position you can rest your watch in at night that might fully or partially offset that gain during the night).

Now, assuming that you’ve done that and your watch runs, in an average 24-hour day, 2 seconds fast (or about a minute per month), which is the case with my watch, I have a suggestion.

Each month, if you set your watch 30 seconds slow at the beginning of each month, by the end of the month it will only be 30 seconds fast. That way, you cut your maximum inaccuracy by half.

Okay, okay. For many of you readers out there this sounds totally anal (and, admittedly, it is). But, for those watch enthusiasts out there who want to take all reasonable measures to help mitigate your automatic’s inaccuracies, I hope you find this a helpful suggestion.

Cheers,

Loren

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