Not impressed with my PO 8500

I agree with the above. Accuracy is imperfect, but a thing of beauty is a joy to (be)hold!

I used to be obsessed with accuracy. I came to realize that a couple seconds a day is nothing though, and the trade-offs to get perfect accuracy were too big a price to pay. Every couple weeks I'll reset the time on my Speedy if needed. I abhor the idea of needing a battery to run my watch. Also the price you pay style-wise for quartz is too high for me. I look at a digital watch and see I have 12 minutes until some event. But I get a better feel for how long those 12 minutes are when I see mechanical watch hands. I'm just an analog guy in a digital world I guess. Plus so few people or even companies sync their clocks to the atomic clock in Colorado- everybody's time is inexact. So being perfectly accurate doesn't help if you're the only one. Eventually I simply got over it.

Me too.

It's a sort of ritual thing for me now. I'm a Music Director at a church and during the homily every week I'll take those 5-10 minutes to reset my Speedy Moonphase against my iPhone time. No issues, and I strangely look forward to it!

It's a regular scheduled adjustment. I haven't had anything else to compare.