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Hi Loren, why be half-anal?;) I have a shortwave tuned to 5000kHz and set three of my watches to it every morning. My Seiko Alpinist gets exactly six turns of the crown and is usually just a few seconds fast. The orange-dial Seiko Diver is about ten seconds fast/day and I tweak it using the Alpinist for a visual reference. My Minerva Pyth.1 only needs a tweaking a couple times a week. I do it every morning and don't give a damn about crown gaskets. Best wishes...Joe

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