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Originally Posted by dannyp
I would venture a guess that most are fine. A 10% failure rate would mean 50k+ watches going bad every year. That would have made more chatter than these forums. There's also a distinct possibility that some will be impacted such that they run out of spec, but never to the point that the average person would notice.
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I don't know if most are fine I've had a 50% hit rate with the issues and i'm reasonably sure another will be an issue in the next year. Now i'm not suggesting the true rate is 50% but for my sample size that's where it's at.
I think a lot of people don't notice because they:
1. don't actually wear the watch,
2. don't even set the time when wearing it
3. not use it for timing keeping anyway
4. only wear in rotation so they dont' keep it running long enough continuously to notice.
a few of us here love this part of the hobby but lets face reality a lot of people buying these watches aren't in it for the love of watches.