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Originally Posted by amanbra
Well to your first point, all of my healthy watches seem to gain time when running out of PR esp if i leave them resting in the watch box. My understanding is as the PR drops the amplitude drops and the ticks become slightly quicker as a result.
To your second point, I have a exp 1 who started off it's life at about +1 and started to run -2 on the wrist. Fearing the movement was showing the amplitude issue i chucked it on my timegrapher and it's showing stupid high amplitude which is what the last 20 posts on this thread are about sans the red text on the seadweller going missing. I'm not 100% what the hell is going on with my exp 1 but at the moment it's running slower than before but with a stupid high amplitude. I'm monitoring and will report back if anything weird happens from this point.
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Thanks. Still trying to fully understand what all of these different measurements mean... As I understand it, amplitude is the measurement of how well things inside are "moving" (like gauging the health of one's joints or arteries)? The higher the amplitude, the better they are moving around as they should.
However, sounds like this has little to do with timekeeping, and that going from fast to slow doesn't indicate that things aren't functioning as they should?
The other thing I'm wondering: Since I spend much of my day sitting, do I need to consider not only the lack of motion, but also the position of my wrist? It's actually pretty rare for my wrist to be flat on my desk, with the watch facing crystal-up. If I'm typing, it's on its side, 6:00 facing up. On a call, either it'll be hanging down, with crown-down, or I'll be chin-on-fist and it'll be crown-up.
I'll be very interested in hearing what you report back, but it sounds like, particularly within the +/- 2sec range, what matters is consistency?
Crap, maybe I now need to blow money on a timegrapher, since I care way too much about the "why" as opposed to simply enjoying the fact that I have a mechanical watch that keeps time within a second or two a day
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