Accuracy

[Butchh]

Forgive me, I’m a newbie...so indulge me with your opinions on what is exactly the ‘watchmaker’s watch?’ I’m speaking of vintage movements Rolex has made. I’ve heard many different takes on this from numerous collectors, and was wondering what you folks think. I own five Rolex watches, but my daily wearer is a 1601/1575 because its timekeeping is phenomenal. I’d really enjoy reading your thoughts if you don’t mind. Thank you all.

[Dirt]

I'm no Watchmaker but the best in terms of outright accuracy I've owned, hands down were equiped with 31XX and 30XX movements.

Accuracy is an overrated metric that's a product of a number of other factors anyway

My grandfather used to say the Slow Foxtrot was the dancer's dance.
Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't

[ReclinerTimer]

yup I have a vintage 1600 that runs about 1.5 seconds fast a day, its phenomenal

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Butchh

Forgive me, I’m a newbie...so indulge me with your opinions on what is exactly the ‘watchmaker’s watch?’ I’m speaking of vintage movements Rolex has made. I’ve heard many different takes on this from numerous collectors, and was wondering what you folks think. I own five Rolex watches, but my daily wearer is a 1601/1575 because its timekeeping is phenomenal. I’d really enjoy reading your thoughts if you don’t mind. Thank you all.

Today most all mechanical movements when regulated correctly could run within in a few seconds a day.Take the Chinese made Seagull ST manual wind chronograph movement when tested on timograph out of the box was running + 7 seconds.Even that was good for a $60 watch but after careful regulation ran well inside todays COSC spec.And has ran consistently average +2 seconds daily for many years,but has been re-regulated over those running years.