Fine !! LOL. Just trying to save ya some money!
Just picked up another Tissot .. My 3rd lol.. this is getting as bad as my gun buying
It's a slippery slope.
I've started collecting so many that I am beginning to dread any month with less than 31 days in it. Feb will be a PITA.
I’ve got two or three months covered
Knowing nothing about watches other than how to use them, is this normal to have to adjust the time occasionally? I recently saw a video clip about a celebrity that was given a Rolex who took it to the shop because it got off a few minutes every few months and was told that's what they do. Guess I assumed for several G's they would be set and forget.
Usually the higher end the watch, the better time it will keep. Not always, as people can tun a couple hundred dollar watch to keep plus or minus 2 seconds a day.
Most high end automatic watches only have a 1-5 second a day guarantee.
What he said^^
A Rolex is off about 2 seconds per day, or 1 minute per month. There are Bulova Precisionist branded quartz watches that are off by 10 seconds per year. If accuracy is a must, set your watch as often as needed.
Just buy a quartz. The cheapest $10 quartz watch will keep better time than a Rolex, but it's about the engineering and craftsmanship of the mechanics that does it for me though. That's worth a few seconds per day.
Back in the early days, 30 seconds a day in a single position was considered exceptional until the advent of the railroad standard of timekeeping (outside of the marine chronometer first invented to track longitude for sea travel). Now you have Spring Drive, which is the first real significant advancement in mechanical timekeeping since the co-axial escapement from George Daniels in 1974. You get quartz level accuracy, but driven mechanically and powered by a spring - no batteries. They advertise 1 second per day or less, and in most reviews you'll find it significantly less than 1 second per day. It took 28 years to get it from an idea to an actual production movement. Pretty interesting reading if you dig into it further.
Back in the early days, 30 seconds a day in a single position was considered exceptional until the advent of the railroad standard of timekeeping (outside of the marine chronometer first invented to track longitude for sea travel). Now you have Spring Drive, which is the first real significant advancement in mechanical timekeeping since the co-axial escapement from George Daniels in 1974. You get quartz level accuracy, but driven mechanically and powered by a spring - no batteries. They advertise 1 second per day or less, and in most reviews you'll find it significantly less than 1 second per day. It took 28 years to get it from an idea to an actual production movement. Pretty interesting reading if you dig into it further.
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