First Rolex. Odd start...

Hey All. Hopefully someone here can tell me what’s happened, but if not, i’ll be happy just because all seems to be well now. So the story...

I’ve bought three new Omega watches this year and all have run within spec right out of the gate. None have changed at all from day-1.

Five days ago I bought my first Rolex. An Explorer II, new from an AD. The first day I noticed it was one minute slower than where I (thought I had) initially set it. Thinking that maybe I has improperly set it, I reset it and was careful to sync it up with the Atom. time so I could check the accuracy. Crap if it didn’t lose 75 seconds on day-2. I reset it again and it has been running EXACTLY on time ever since. Literally no gain or loss at all the past three days.

So what the heck? Can someone here ‘splain this phenomenon to me?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Tom.

Did you wind it up fully the first day?

in truth you're overthinking it.

Not you the OP.

One of the many small quirks when/in being a Rolex owner. Many watchmakers can make a movement that a child, without an prior experience, can set the time up perfectly on. Only (not really true but it is more fun that way) Rolex thinks up an idea that makes it a choir. When mastering it - it goes from being a quirk to a perk. The mark of a true enthusiast. If being OCD about it you actually could lose your mind over it - for real...

I too - in around 2006 - when I bought my first Rolex - thought something was wrong with it. "A watch this expensive could just not be this inprecise in setting it". It is - and often adding to the "problem" is some optical distortion of the crystal. If being totally anal about it you have to turn the watch in the direction where the minute hand points - looking along the minute hand towards the indexes...

After some time you just set the minute hand about 15 seconds in front/before the seconds hand and live happily ever after. If wanting a perfectly set watch - get a high accuracy quartz.

Another thing newbies tend to worry about is when the date changes. Do not. A minute before or after is nothing to lose sleep over.

Yes. I gave it about forty turns.

Sorry for the absence, but I thought I had notifications turned on for my threads. Somehow I received none for this topic.

As far as being OCD; yup. Guilty as charged. But in my defense, this is a lot of money to me. Every time I’ve purchased a new watch I’ve spent the first few days thoroughly checking it out. I only have four nice watches, but I how exactly how each keeps time. This is my first Rolex and my most expensive watch now. I want to know it’s running properly. And now it seems to have settled in to +1 second per day. I’m very happy with it. To reiterate, my three Omegas have run consistently from the moment I bought them. Although I’m very new to this hobby, I thought it odd that THIS watch ran inconsistently for the first couple of days.

I still don’t understand why it did do, but I’m happy that it is now running as expected.