Day three with the IIc- amazed

[DATEJUSTSS]

Just checked the IIc against time.gov. After three days not one second gained or lost. I'm blown away. I had heard others praise the accuracy of the new movement but was a bit skeptical. No more! This watch rocks. I've never seen this kind of consistent accuracy in a mechanical watch. This is my 4th Rolex and I've come to expect some deviation. Pretty amazing for a movement that's not even broken in. Praise GMT.

[2th Dr]

What's NOT to like about the GMT IIc? I have yet to find something!

[JCirillo]

That is just a beauty. I hope to be lucky enough to own a GMT IIc someday.

[Timber Loftis]

I haven't set the watch in weeks, and it's still spot on accurate. There are things about this watch that aren't perfect for everyone -- from the PCL's to the big boxy supercase.... but the accuracy alone makes it incredible.

[Jeff in Florida]

Unfortunately my Sub gains a second a day. Imagine the horror of having to set back a watch one minute every two months...

[dkpw]

Originally Posted by 2th DR

What's NOT to like about the GMT IIc? I have yet to find something!

The PCL's?

Great watch and what great accuracy. The TT is my next purchase - funds or a lottery win permitting.

[Art 1]

That watch looks good on you Jess, glad it's running spot on.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Jeff in Florida

Unfortunately my Sub gains a second a day. Imagine the horror of having to set back a watch one minute every two months...

LMAO Jeff just wonder how you manage such a two monthly chore

Originally Posted by Timber Loftis

I haven't set the watch in weeks, and it's still spot on accurate. There are things about this watch that aren't perfect for everyone -- from the PCL's to the big boxy supercase.... but the accuracy alone makes it incredible.

John Harrison my watchmaker hero was a self-educated English clockmaker. And was one of the first to apply temperature compensation to a balance wheel in 1753 almost 300 hundred years ago, using a bimetallic compensation curb on the hairspring.In what was the first successful marine chronometers.The H4 and H5 watches,now these achieved an accuracy of just a fraction of a second per day without any parachrome hairspring.And in those days no computer design and by today standards very primitive tools.So I ask myself have we really advanced that much in watch accuracy today. Now John Harrison he was a real watchmaker,a genius in his time,and still very hard to better his accuracy in this modern age almost 300 years later.

[incabloc]

and its accuracy is perfect also. Awesome.

PCL - I minor scratches as "personalization" of the watch. So, through wear each IIc has it's own kind of DNA.

Perfect watch for me. 10/10

[Timber Loftis]

Originally Posted by padi56

John Harrison my watchmaker....still very hard to better his accuracy in this modern age almost 300 years later.

I believe that where a mechanical watch is concerned, advances in technology can only get you so close to perfect accuracy. Advances in the technology at this point are almost not worth their marginal cost I would think.

I had a teacher who once said:
If you want to build a bicycle, your margin of error on engineering aspects of it might be 1%.

If you want to build a car, your margin of error might be 0.1%.

If you want to build an airplane your margin of error might be 0.01%.

If you want to build a rocket and land on the moon, your margin of error might be 0.001%.

And so on.

A mechanical watch uses very finely crafted and small products. But it does not use microscopic particles, it does not use subatomic particle. It doesn't use transistors, or microchips.

It's just wheels and cogs and springs. It's impressive what Mr. Harrison did back then, for sure (note: was it an automatic watch he made?). But I still find it impressive that my watch is so very accurate. Am I rube being impressed by 200 year old technology? Sure, fine, happily so.

I don't see many complaints about the IIc lacking accuracy from owners, either. So, it's not just that I'm impressed that my watch keeps such good time, but what's really impressive is that most everyone else's seems to do so as well. That kind of consistency is impressive from a manufacturing standpoint.