The solution to the issue is simple.
Buy more watches.
Wear a different one each day.
I guarantee you will not notice minor time discrepancies ever again.
I had a very nice TAG HEUER 1500 quartz that I wore for 25 years before getting my first good mechanical watch, an Omega 2254.50, in 2008. I like you was obsessed about accuracy for the first couple of years until, I started buying vintage pieces. I used to take pieces back to my watchmaker to fine tune the regulator after service, which he explained was due to positional variation while wearing the watch. After the first few, I no longer worry and am happy with +/- 20 seconds a day on older watches and +/- 10 seconds a day on more modern watches. Many do better than that but I just wear them and enjoy them.
It never ceases to amaze me that people comment on their watch gaining or losing a couple of the 86,400 seconds there are in any given day, are people really expecting a mechanical time piece to be perfectly in sync with the atomic clock?
Or am I just being grouchy because I haven't had a coffee yet?
We shouldn’t fault people for what they do not yet know. It deters more people from being welcomed into any new hobby. Although this community has a large following, many clubs and communities don’t and the more new people are welcomed, helped, and greeted, the better for the overall group. We all learned the answer to this at one point or another and I’m sure appreciated the responses or articles that didn’t make us feel silly for simply not knowing yet. All clubs and communities seem to have this problem with a select few of the “wise” making unneeded remarks to the new. Silliness if you ask me. And your posts in general always strike me as a bit grumpy 😀
Well thank you sir for your kind words, very much appreciated.
For the record I'm not grumpy, I'm actually very easy going and relaxed, and more than willing to help people, but people also need to help themselves and understand what it is that they have bought.
There is an expectation from some that an expensive luxury watch should keep perfect time, yet the reality is somewhat different and I think that people struggle with this, yet a few minutes on the brands website and reading the manual can provide a great understanding of their watch. This is shown quite often with the number of posts on 'how do I wind a Speedmaster Moonwatch'.
New members at clubs are always the bane of existing members, I went through this when I joined a photographic club, camera's not good enough, not got the right lenses, need a better tripod etc etc, you should have seen their faces when I won the first contest I entered after being a member for just a month. I knew my skills could be improved but I had bought umpteen books and magazines and learnt the basics and been brutal with my analysis of my results, working out why the shot worked but more importantly why it had not.
So, I'm sorry you don't like my posts, but they are what they are and I have no intention of changing, I try to be objective sometimes I get it right sometimes not, but heyho no one is perfect.
Oh dear, now we resort to personal attacks, how childish.
Really should let this go....Sort of immature at this point.
#megaquartz #omegamegaquartz #quartzproud Some day, all watches will be made this way.
It never ceases to amaze me that people comment on their watch gaining or losing a couple of the 86,400 seconds there are in any given day, are people really expecting a mechanical time piece to be perfectly in sync with the atomic clock?
Or am I just being grouchy because I haven't had a coffee yet?
The wife barely let me get away with the first haha
