I got mine from for a little over $100, and if you want to be certain about the accuracy of your mechanical watches, it’s a good investment, especially if you have a large collection, timekeeping accuracy is important to you, or if you plan to adjust or regulate your watches. Some of those people may purchase a timegrapher machine, like the one I have in my office, or the ones any good watchmaker would have. Where do you stand on expectations for accuracy for your mechanical pieces? Let us know in the comments below or on Instagram.įind a great strap for your very accurate Rolex Submariner Date here.Despite the fact that most watch collectors understand a mechanical watch is inherently less accurate than a quartz watch, the hobby tends to attract people with a certain penchant for paying close attention to minute details, and as such, it’s not uncommon to see a discussion regarding mechanical watch accuracy take place among watch-geeks. I’ll use these watches as a reference for my mechanical watches and when I want to enjoy very precise timekeeping.
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I just relegated that role to my solar and atomic time-synced G-Shock and my quartz Grand Seiko, which is rated to plus or minus 10 seconds per year.
This is not to say I do not enjoy super accurate watches. I simply reset the Oceanking about once a month or whenever I notice it is running a little fast. This means it’s pretty accurate and probably more accurate than my Submariner at this time. I wear my MONTA Oceanking regularly and will only notice it running a minute or so fast after weeks of wearing it. Accordingly he will set his watches after they’ve stopped either 10 seconds fast or 10 seconds slow and move on with his day. The watchmaker I was discussing this topic with said he will generally get a sense of which watches are running slow or fast in his collection. Hodinkee’s Jack Forster covered this topic in an extensive article that is worth a read. I understand that striving for top-notch accuracy with mechanical watches is a worthy challenge, but under 10 seconds of deviation per day is amazing for such an intricate machine. In the battle of accuracy, Rolex’s Superlative Chronometer status offers plus or minus two seconds a day, which is pretty amazing, Seiko and Grand Seiko’s Spring Drive movement promises accuracy within a fraction of a second per day. I might be lucky, but most of my watches keep pretty good time. Sometimes I will set my watch to match , but after that I don’t worry too much about its timekeeping. To me that type of careful control takes too much time out of simply enjoying and wearing watches.
This breed of enthusiast may even own the tools to regulate their movements so they are within a certain range of accuracy. Some watch collectors who are obsessed with accuracy and own timegraphers. What is the right expectation for accuracy ? I get why Rolex adheres to such stringent standards, it’s the cornerstone of their brand.
In reality my watch was probably running about five seconds fast per day.
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I declined the full service as I was pretty sure that the watch was still within plus-or-minus 10 seconds a day, which is good enough for me. When I brought my Submariner to Rolex Service Center to get a broken bezel click spring fixed, they recommended a full service because my watch was not keeping time within those specs. Rolex expects their modern watches to be plus or minus two seconds a day. Over dinner a watchmaker and I both agreed that as long as a mechanical watch isn’t gaining or losing too much time, we don’t really measure the accuracy of our watches.
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