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Originally Posted by Mr Ben
Didn’t realise this thread was still getting replies. I think the question’s been answered above but it wasn’t 6 seconds - I had wondered why the watch was exactly 6 minutes “late” changing every night. Six minutes past midnight on the dot every night.
Thank you all for the replies.
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Date change alignment has to do with how accurate the watchmaker chose to be (or was able to be) on the day he or she mounted the hands. It has nothing about the movement quality. Getting the hands to align exactly at midnight at date change is absolutely possible (given an instantaneous date change system), however, easier to do on some calibers than others. Anything outside of +/- 2mins of midnight is just laziness or ineptitude on the part of the watchmaker that set the hands.
