I check out real world accuracy on watches from six price points from collection. Miyota, Pagani Design GMT, Zeppelin Hindenburg, Steinhart ocean one, Chris Ward Trident pro and Omega Seamaster. How will they fare?
Good work. I wish that there were more people doing analytical tests against their watches. Consumer advocacy is important to ensure watchmakers are actually doing what they’re saying they’re doing, not just a selling baloney sandwiches.
Interesting test, thank you. I was wondering why you performed the "test" for each watch on a different day. Ha! then I realized you were wearing each watch for 24 hr.s. Excellent 🙂 A real test for sure. Having a wrist watch just sitting on a bureau, or wherever, does not simulate how watches run while on the wrist. Thank you for taking the time to do this. Very through. 🙂 I'm guessing the Omega is a keeper ;-)
Thaniks for takinh the time to comment. And yes all watches are keepers except and fake ones which will be binned when the eventually fail, although they will probably last a whiule as I no longer wear them!🤣
This is very good to see. One thing that I've discovered is that mechanical and automatic watches can have their speed adjusted. I'm curious what the results would be if you took in the Alibaba watch and had it's speed regulated to be as exact as possible. Would it remain very exact for a very long time? Would it quickly lose its accuracy?
daily rate doesn't really matter because it can be regulated. what matters is whether the daily rate is consistent. a hypothetical watch that gave exactly +24s every day is more accurate than a hypothetical watch that gives +0s one day, -2s the next day, +2s the third day. so it would be good to test the daily rate of each of these watches every day for a week. one 24 hour test is only telling you how well regulated the watches are, not how accurate they are.
Really interesting seeing how different these automatic watches are. I have a question though, i have an 4r36 movement seiko 5 and its about 30 seconds late per day. Is it normal or should i regulate it?
The S5 is rated at minus 20 to plus 40 seconds per day. The instructions advise you to fully wind the watch every day even though it is an automatic. For me even if a watch is a couple of minutes a day it is fine.
Oy mate! I never knew there is an Amiga watch, but you keep talking about that Amiga! I thought they went under with their computers in the 90s, and they never made a watch! You must have fallen for a Chinese fake, and you paid 2000 quid for it
