World Atomic Time

[Marshall Wade]

Guys and Gals just over a month ago I purchased a Rolex SubDate from the Watch Gallery (excellent Service from Vince and Violetta) got home and thought I would test the actual time keeping. Bit disappointing as it was slow by 3 seconds a day, this was taken from a time site. Yesterday I found an "Atomic Time Site and checked my time with them. In 24 hours I found my watch to be between 0.5 and 1 second fast. Have not done any changes from normal. Will keep you all up to date.

[fishingbear]

Sounds like you are within the tolerances of Superlative Chronometer Official Certification

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Marshall Wade

Guys and Gals just over a month ago I purchased a Rolex SubDate from the Watch Gallery (excellent Service from Vince and Violetta) got home and thought I would test the actual time keeping. Bit disappointing as it was slow by 3 seconds a day, this was taken from a time site. Yesterday I found an "Atomic Time Site and checked my time with them. In 24 hours I found my watch to be between 0.5 and 1 second fast. Have not done any changes from normal. Will keep you all up to date.

Please dont get to OCD about a few seconds out of 86400 in a day all you want to do is check your watch once a week.

[Canook]

Originally Posted by Marshall Wade

Guys and Gals just over a month ago I purchased a Rolex SubDate from the Watch Gallery (excellent Service from Vince and Violetta) got home and thought I would test the actual time keeping. Bit disappointing as it was slow by 3 seconds a day, this was taken from a time site. Yesterday I found an "Atomic Time Site and checked my time with them. In 24 hours I found my watch to be between 0.5 and 1 second fast. Have not done any changes from normal. Will keep you all up to date.

I dont understand the obsession with seconds a day.... as long as i dont loose 5-10 min a day then im not concerned about seconds.... life is too short to be stressing if your mechanical watch doesn't keep time to the point of useless accuracy
If i need the exact time my phone always has it down to the second and isnt effected by the angle it was left on my bedside table for the night or the temperature or altitude....

relax and enjoy your watch and dont stress

[SDRider]

Originally Posted by Canook

I dont understand the obsession with seconds a day.... as long as i dont loose 5-10 min a day then im not concerned about seconds.... life is too short to be stressing if your mechanical watch doesn't keep time to the point of useless accuracy
If i need the exact time my phone always has it down to the second and isnt effected by the angle it was left on my bedside table for the night or the temperature or altitude....

relax and enjoy your watch and dont stress

A second or two a day is fine. Mine happens to lose about 2-3 seconds every 5 days or so. I have a TAG-Heuer that was minus a couple seconds a day but it started getting worse until it was losing about 30 seconds a day which is unacceptable. I took it in and had it checked and adjusted.

Of course I check the accuracy. It's a Rolex and I paid good money for an accurate Swiss self-winding movement.

[MaxEight]

Enjoy the watch, who cares if it loses or gains a second in a day? I rotate between crown up and dial up when I put my OP39 to bed each night, and in the few months between daylight savings resets I find it doesn't gain any more than a few seconds. Give it a shot, you might be surprised.

[tyler1980]

congratulations on a supremely accurate mechanical watch

Or, were you complaining i can't tell?

Your reference time is an atomic clock and your rolex is a mechanical timepiece with hundreds of tiny parts.

[Valenciawatchrepair]

Use to have people come into my dads watch repair shop and complain about their automatic watch losing/gaining a few seconds per day or even WEEK. For one thing, I used to wonder, "Do these guys have nothing better to do?" lol

[Snow-Dweller]

I'm not OCD about it, but I like my watches to be accurate (different resting positions for different pieces), and I enjoy tracking them.

Watchville and Twixt are good...

[Star Ferry]

Get a Grand Seiko quartz. In 5 weeks, mine hasn't lost a single second