Bumblebee watch

is there no such thing as a watch thats not off a even a second a day?

but if my watch is set to a satellite clock. and put down right after facing up, for 24 hours. its in that position, and constantly going a second forward everyday. that seems abnormal. is it?. sorry for being so persistent

Watcho,

Your watch's movement is a combination of mechanical parts about the size, probably, of a quarter or half-dollar. It's not running on a computer chip. As Buck2466 stated, the accuracy of your mechanical marvel is something like 99.99 percent. Wanting more is asking too much.

If you want near perfect accuracy, buy an atomic watch.

this has to be a wind up (boom boom) do I need to find my Troll pictures?

do you ever feel the need to wash your hands 30 times a day?

but, just in case this is serious and you are genuinely very new to watches......mate you need to do a bit of reading on mechanical watches, even quartz watches and understand the variations that are overcome to tell you the time to 1sec per day. if you want a watch to stay in time with absolute precision 24hrs a day with no correction you are very much out of luck and will forever be doomed to a life of disappointment or debt due to the atomic clock you bought for the living room (which by the way will still have an inherent error of around 0.00000000000000000001 sec per day!)

go read about HAQ from citizen or Grand Seiko and the Swiss in case you have xenophobic tendencies , they may come close enough to keep your hair in. I own a Seiko mm600 which gains around 0.1sec per day and a Sinn UX which has not changed since resetting 9weeks ago. this route may be your salvation.

the reason im asking is cause i called the 8778395224 omega number, with all the info that i was given at this thread. and the guy told me that it shouldnt be off at all and to send it in so they can regulate it so it wont be off even a second a day. thats the reason im asking just to know if this guy knew what he was talking about. i didnt send it in, and probably wont either, but i wanted your opinions of wether i should. seems like no one here thinks that guy knew what he was talking about.

At the end of the day, you have to blame some of the greatest minds in history.

Let's start with Newton. Poor old Isaac discovered something called gravity. You can (with enough patience) adjust any watch (provided the pivots and jewels/bushes are true) in any position, to be accurate to 0.0 secs per day. The trouble is that as soon as you move the watch, the forces of gravity act at a different angle and so the moving parts are subject to different forces. That is why your watchmaker will adjust the watch to an average over a number of different positions/. If you want greater accuracy, you wear the watch for a recorded period of time, without changing the hand position and have it adjusted to your watch wearing style. This will give the greatest accuracy for you life style.

As time goes on, you have to shift the blame to poor old da Vinci. For all his greatness, Leo discovered friction and that is the bane of all engineer's lives. As the nice, new, expensive oil (some of the oils used to lubricate a watch cost the equivalent of £10,000 per litre) starts to age, it loses some of its lubricating properties. As this starts to happen, those nasty forces take over again and the adjustment starts to creep further out of alignment. So, what do you do? You have the watch adjusted to counteract these revised forces.

I don't know who invented synthetic oils but he is your best friend. With old mineral oils, you had to have your watch serviced every 18 months (before Leo's discovery was amplified by a gooey residue of old oil) At least, these days it is 5 years before the oil breaks down.

If you need to have absolute accuracy, buy whatever Apple are about to release that will re-set itself against a GPS signal multiple times a second.

*Edited for historical accuracy and to reflect the fact that I am now sober*

Frank Newton? 😗

Sir Francis to you, squire.

Issac?

Sorry, too much vin rouge - was talking about Francis Bacon at work today.

thats what i figured. just wanted someone to confirm. thanks

superb! and that Arthur da vinci, he was a mad man on the vino 🍺

No Al. I definitely meant in any one position.

Let me just say 🤦. You either get mechanical watches or you don't. Try bowling as a hobby instead.

No, wait - you'd complain on a bowling forum that you didn't knock down all ten pins every time.

Like everything in life, nothing is absolute. I think it is pointless for us to try to convince you but here is any interesting read instead:

http://www.wired.com/2013/01/keeping-kilogram-constant/