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·Hello,
I am writing to share my experience & ask your thoughts on two things.
1) Backward winding to hack the movement
I read a few posts here and there that it's okay to backward winding the movement to hack it so as to set the time as accurate as possible. I also heard from a nearby OB (Korea) where I purchased a couple of Omega watches (not 321 EW though) that they used to advise the same in the past to customers, when they were selling 1861 and 861. So, I sometimes did as advised, to set the watch as accurately as possible in order to see if the daily deviation indeed would fall within the normal range of -1 ~ +11 per day (which RJ mentioned in one of his 321 videos). However, a few months ago, I asked to the official service center in Seoul, and the engineer there advised me not to, becasue it could stress the movement, so I stopped doing so ever since, which is all fine, because a chronometric accuracy is not what has got me into this watch in the first place. Anyone has different view?
2) Beauty of movement compared to Vacheron Cornes de Vache 1955
I visited Vacheron boutique today and checked out Cornes de Vache 1955 in steel to see how the two movements with same (or at least similar origin) would compare against each other in terms of appearances. Surprisingly, the movement of 321 EW looks much more beautiful. In layman's language, it also looks full, more fully packed with parts and more machine-like. I attach the pictures from the internet. I am just feeling happy as its cost comes only 32-33% of Cornes de Vaches steel but still looks more cool, although my brain tells me there will defintely be a few things better there, and I just do not catch them simply because I am not an expert. Anyome has different view? Thanks.
I am writing to share my experience & ask your thoughts on two things.
1) Backward winding to hack the movement
I read a few posts here and there that it's okay to backward winding the movement to hack it so as to set the time as accurate as possible. I also heard from a nearby OB (Korea) where I purchased a couple of Omega watches (not 321 EW though) that they used to advise the same in the past to customers, when they were selling 1861 and 861. So, I sometimes did as advised, to set the watch as accurately as possible in order to see if the daily deviation indeed would fall within the normal range of -1 ~ +11 per day (which RJ mentioned in one of his 321 videos). However, a few months ago, I asked to the official service center in Seoul, and the engineer there advised me not to, becasue it could stress the movement, so I stopped doing so ever since, which is all fine, because a chronometric accuracy is not what has got me into this watch in the first place. Anyone has different view?
2) Beauty of movement compared to Vacheron Cornes de Vache 1955
I visited Vacheron boutique today and checked out Cornes de Vache 1955 in steel to see how the two movements with same (or at least similar origin) would compare against each other in terms of appearances. Surprisingly, the movement of 321 EW looks much more beautiful. In layman's language, it also looks full, more fully packed with parts and more machine-like. I attach the pictures from the internet. I am just feeling happy as its cost comes only 32-33% of Cornes de Vaches steel but still looks more cool, although my brain tells me there will defintely be a few things better there, and I just do not catch them simply because I am not an expert. Anyome has different view? Thanks.
