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Timegraphers vs. Actual wear.

Faz
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Hi all,

I’ve come upon an interesting situation where I purchased a brand new Seiko 3 years ago. I wore this watch sporadically and granted, it ran slow on my wrist at the rate of about 10 secs per day so at the end of the week I had to bump it up a minute or so. Turns out this watch was put on a timegrapher and was showing on minute slow PER DAY?

Can anybody chime in on such a discrepancy? Is it possible that wearing a watch vs timegrapher could result in such lopsided conclusion?

Cheers,

Faz
 
Dan S
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That's pretty extreme. Did they measure the timekeeping in multiple positions? Was it fully wound?
 
Faz
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Dan S Dan S
That's pretty extreme. Did they measure the timekeeping in multiple positions? Was it fully wound?
Apparently, yes. Not sure about the fully wound part. Either way I’ll have to check it out when it comes back to me. I would have thought I’d notice a watch running that slow from the get go.
 
Dan S
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It's unlikely, but the reason I asked about the multiple positions is that in principle the position where it was running extremely slow might not correspond to your real world experience.
 
Archer
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Most likely there are positions that the watch has been worn in that are not a minute slow…
 
Faz
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Fortunately the watch is still under warranty and Seiko will have a peak at it.
 
Faz
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Agreed, but a minute per day slow is a bit much.
 
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Faz Faz
Agreed, but a minute per day slow is a bit much.

Probably as accurate as it was the day it left the factory! Accuracy on the wrist over time is more relevant than variations on a timing machine, especially with an orchard run watch like a Seiko! Sell the guy a Seiko quartz.
 
Faz
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Probably as accurate as it was the day it left the factory! Accuracy on the wrist over time is more relevant than variations on a timing machine, especially with an orchard run watch like a Seiko! Sell the guy a Seiko quartz.
It was accurate enough when I wore it. Let’s see what Seiko can do with it…
 
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Faz Faz
It was accurate enough when I wore it. Let’s see what Seiko can do with it…

Let us know what Seiko says.
 
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