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CaliberKingPin
·Great news owl.
Hope that is all it was!
Hope that is all it was!
Speedmaster 1861 running fast, would you send it in?
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owl.
·Just getting near the ridiculously strong magnets in iDevices can do it. There are lots more magnets around than you might think!
I have an old iPhone 8 (which is staring to show patina haha) and I use a work assigned MacBook for work.
I hope that using these things isn't going to magnetize my watch frequently.
What do you think ?
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kcgunner
·If it's running over a minute a day fast there is something seriously wrong. Send it in. Don't try to fix this on your own. It'll be worth it in the end. Maybe your AD will throw in some swag for your troubles.
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Gruesome
·The Macbook would be my bet. Check the wrist area left and right of the touch pad for magnetic fields with your iphone. Maybe this is a good excuse to just have to buy one of those newfangled Omegas with silicon hairspring; your dangerous work environment demands it! 😉
(Alternatively, you could get a bluetooth keyboard for the macbook; but what would be the fun in that?)
(Alternatively, you could get a bluetooth keyboard for the macbook; but what would be the fun in that?)
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFThe Macbook would be my bet. Check the wrist area left and right of the touch pad for magnetic fields with your iphone. Maybe this is a good excuse to just have to buy one of those newfangled Omegas with silicon hairspring; your dangerous work environment demands it! 😉
(Alternatively, you could get a bluetooth keyboard for the macbook; but what would be the fun in that?)
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SkunkPrince
·I use a 15" MacBook Pro for many hours a day (how sad is that?) and it doesn't magnetize my watches. Like I said, once you're aware of it, you just don't set your watch on top your iPad with the magnetic Smart Cover.
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PhilF
·I use a 15" MacBook Pro for many hours a day (how sad is that?) and it doesn't magnetize my watches. Like I said, once you're aware of it, you just don't set your watch on top your iPad with the magnetic Smart Cover.
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SkunkPrince
·Much of this will become, hopefully, a non-issue tomorrow (It's going to be a Speedy Tuesday) when I trade my 1861 on a 3861 which is advertised to be mostly impervious to magnetic fields.
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scapa
·My experience with the 57 Railmaster suggests it's less of an issue but there are parts that can still get magnetized and affect the rate.
Yep. I used an older Railmaster for years at work, and while I'm not often in medical imaging there are all kinds of devices with decently strong magnetic fields I'm near on an average shift. I swapped in a SMP300 Diver a while back and it has been absolutely superb thus far, while being accurate to a few seconds per week. Having spent some with this tech it's now something I consider of value and would look for in a watch I'll be using at work. FWIW, both my IWC Spitfire and a Sinn have also been trouble-free, but the Omegas are great in such applications.
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