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Originally Posted by peterskinner
It’s a mechanical watch, and incapable of Precision in the sense used by modern technology. Even a cheap quartz watch or phone will be far emore accurate. So why make such an issue over a basic weakness of mechanical timekeeping. It’s still more than good enough for normal life. A few seconds a day means nothing in terms of the usual pace of our lives.
If it does matter, don’t use a mechanical watch.....even a fine design like a Rolex has to live in the real,physical, world.
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I'm sorry, but there's a huge difference between knowing and accepting that a mechanical watch will not keep atomic clock accuracy, and a mechanical watch that managed to keep almost perfect spot-on time for the first 18 months of its life, and then for no apparent or discernible reason just started to slow -2 secs per day, then -6 secs per day, then -8, and now -10 seconds per day. That, in my book, indicates a problem.
Just like if you have a car that drives and stops fine for 18 months, and then the next day it suddenly refuses to brake like it did. If that happened to your car, and then you found that a number of other people had the same issue that was consistently not fixed by the manufacturer, you may be a little annoyed.
Not sure why a few people here can't grasp that....