Timekeeping accuracy and wearing positions…

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I think all of us who have been hanging around for any length of time have seen innumerable posts on whether a watch is running according to posted specifications.

Then, again, anyone who has had even a rudimentary education by reading these posts will tell the OP that accuracy will depend, in part, on what position the watch is worn in most frequently.

I did a preliminary search about what wearing position (let’s say on the left wrist, to make this less complicated) is the most common, but I couldn’t find much. So I checked myself, and it seems to be half way between crown left, and dial up.

If you were to guess on your own wearing habits, based on your job, recreational activities, etc., what position of wearing dominates for your particular use patterns?
 
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I think you can add crown down for when you are standing/walking.
 
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I should have been more clear: my question is, of the following three positions (dial up, crown left, and crown down), what do you folks believe, based on your individual daily habits, is the position your watch spends the majority of the time in?
 
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Fair amount of all three when being worn. But probably more time dial up overall because I don’t wear my watches at night and I rest them dial up.
 
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When my longines spirit zulu time is in the winder, so this would be dial face forward (as if you're holding it out from you) and rotation clockwise and counter clockwise on that access, I've noted a .5 second variance over 2-3 months. As a COSC certified watch I've come to expect that.

In the real world, wearing throughout the day and even sometimes at night when I fall asleep, I see usually a --2 second drift. It's slow, not usually fast. I would say the most common position would be variations of resting my left wrist on the desk so the watch is on an angle, not fully face up, but a 45 degree angle, I attached a pic.

(No longines were hurt during this filming)
 
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When my longines spirit zulu time is in the winder, so this would be dial face forward (as if you're holding it out from you) and rotation clockwise and counter clockwise on that access, I've noted a .5 second variance over 2-3 months. As a COSC certified watch I've come to expect that.

In the real world, wearing throughout the day and even sometimes at night when I fall asleep, I see usually a --2 second drift. It's slow, not usually fast. I would say the most common position would be variations of resting my left wrist on the desk so the watch is on an angle, not fully face up, but a 45 degree angle, I attached a pic.

(No longines were hurt during this filming)
Yes! I did a survey this weekend of my five friends and they mostly agreed that between dial up and crown left seemed like the most common wearing position.

Good to know, because now I can tweak my regulator to get those positions as close to zero as possible. For instance, o e of my watches is running dial up near zero, but crown left to the negative about ten seconds. I think I’ll nudge it fast just a hair.
 
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Dial up, and crown left for me!
Also for them in the box...and they get rotated, but lots of "box time"!
 
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Dial up for sure and crown midway between left and right if I m thinking through this right haha