The good news is that because all of the variations are positive and of a similar magnitude it should be straightforward to regulate this watch to +/- 2-3s especially as there is negligible beat error. The bad news is that Baltic didn’t do this already. I guess they may have deliberately left a positive variance as the watch will tend to run slower when only partly wound and also with time. A +ve variance is also better than a negative one as it is much easier to correct by just hacking the watch for a few seconds every day or so and if not corrected you just arrive a bit early rather than late. I think it’s worth anyone with a reasonably expensive mechanical watch having a timegrapher, they only cost around £150, and learning how to regulate beat error and timing. I have a self modded Seiko with a 4R36 movement which I have adjusted to +/- 2s/day. I know it gains face up and loses face down so by keeping it face down at night it runs more accurately than some of my quartz watches.
I'm on my second Baltic watch (returned the first one) and having the same issue of +5 minutes after 3-5 days of wear. This watch is brand new and so was the last one. Too bad because it looks great but I need my watch to keep time.
I have just received an Aquascaphe and have had it for about 10 days now and it is running within 2.2 seconds per day, great accuracy and much better than I was expecting. I have read the Photic diver is also very accurate which uses the same movement. Maybe some improvements have been made since this video.
Thanks for the demo. Hoping to pull the trigger on their reissued Blue gilt any day now ... I see it as the best daily for my needs and taste to date. I’m just a couple years into my collection and I’m seeing my love for my Marathon, Orient, Phobios and even My Seikos in the same price range being upstaged by Baltic. A capable vintage diver is my ideal. I’ve been buying bits of that in a variety of brands but this one (if we’ll regulated) might make daily rank. Cheers
Give your watch a regulation after a few moths wear (or on a watch winder) and with those figures I would expect about +/- 2seconds per day. Not bad at all.
After I made this video, I monitored the real life everyday differences. After five days of wearing the watch continuously, the watch deviates by about 1,5 minutes. I believe this happened because all six positions gained time and non lost time. This way, the overall average never has a chance to cancel itself out. It is not a fundamental problem of precision but more so an issue of regulation and adaption to an individual lifestyle. I know I am pedantic about it - the movements precision still is completely within the specs set by Miyota.
"Each movement - according to Baltic - is regulated and tested by an in-house watchmaker in France, near the town of Besançon". If this is best this movement can do being regulated than it's not that impressive unless watchmaker screw up on this a bit. Oh, and the amplitude is quite low in every position. Please update if you manage to get better results with the watch.
@@BartlomiejKozera the watchmaker regulate the watch within the tolerance of the caliber and might improve it but not much. If you go to any watchmaker or regulate yourself you can reach cosc specs easily. I regulate all my watches to +3 s/day at worst with a phone app and a toothpick. I also have a Baltic Bicompax with a manual ST1901 that I bought from a watchmaker at +4 s/day.
@@oOoScarecrow31oOo I may be wrong but isn't every producer already provinding their movement to work within specs? I expect more from the watchmaker regulation if this movement is capable of reaching better specs unless it's not that stable in maintaining them over time.
My traska watch that i just got i must say is very impressive. Getting +1 seconds a day. They say that their watches are regulated to 4 positions which is something that baltic does not do. They just send you a time grapher slip on dead top position on what it's getting. In my case my aquascaphe got +15 seconds. Def not regulated.
3 weeks ago, it was exactly the same with my aquascaphe, but nowday it's more about 20/25 sec per day `... i think the climat does a lot because it the tempeture has been plunging down
No apparently that was not the problem. Demagnetizing didn't change anything but since i regulated it it keeps a pretty good rate at about -3 to +5 secs a day for months now. Very happy with that now!
Did you wind the watch fully and let it sit for 10 minutes? And amplitude of 230 degrees indicates either that the watch is in serious need of a COA or you did not win to fully before testing. Healthy amplitude would be north of 270 degrees in dial up or down.
I've had my blue gilt, beads of rice aquascaphe for only a few days now and I do like it a lot. It's a great looking piece, and the double domed sapphire crystal plays with the dial while the shade of the blue changes from black / dark blue / navy blue based on the angle you view it, along with the heavily "modern vintage" aesthetic. The quarrel you'll hear a lot about it is that it's too high of a price for a miyota 9039, better things for the price (comparably - Steinhart, CW, etc.), homages from the bathyscaphe too much, and a few more nitpicks, but otherwise I am quite happy so far. Baltic might be a little more costly than maybe it should, but the specs and design of the aquascaphe feel a lot different than other divers in the range (which most kinda end up looking like a submariner), and we're also supporting a microbrand too. End of day, compare this to other watches you would consider (I was looking at the longines hydroconquest for a few weeks too) and buy what you like more and will wear a lot. A worn watch is a happy watch! Best of luck --I'd recommend it as it's something more different than most "modern" divers, colours are great, and wears well! (I am not a stickler on absurdly accurate, chronometer certified pieces)
I’m French and even though I like the design of Baltic watches , they’re way overpriced, especially in comparison with Lorier for example…I mean these guys don’t even regulate their watches !
