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Originally Posted by CedCraig
Does low amplitude always presage poor timekeeping?
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I would argue yes. But let me explain. If we say normal horizontal amplitude is 270 and 250 is low, then will 250 always produce poor timekeeping? No. I've proven that. Nor will 230. Or even 210. BUT, what I would suggest is that once your movement reads low, it will continue to trend even lower. We have no evidence of a watch persisting at a given low amplitude indefinitely. Whatever problem caused 250 instead of 270 seems likely over time to produce 230 and so on...
The 32xx seems remarkably able to maintain good timekeeping with low amplitude, but at some point it simply cannot. I've seen in my data that the results become more erratic as the amplitude drops. The average timekeeping may still be ok, but it's jumping around like -6, +2, -13, +5, one sample after another. At higher amplitudes the timing is locked in and very solid.