Is your watch accurate to 20 seconds a year?
 

Amazing engineering, but is it important?

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Uhm, yeah. But it is a Timex. The biggest disruption to time keeping is when months do not have 31 days, or the change to daylight savings.

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Les

Dont carry a watch, everything but the clock on stove and in my car uses NTP and stays in sync

Super neat tech.

Separate issue but the irony of wearing an anti-establishment hairdo while puking the corporate bs phrase 'lot to unpack here' appears lost on the guest.

My Grand Seiko is accurate to 10 seconds a year.

He says they went to great lengths to downsize the watch....case thickness of 11.2mm
My Skagen is 8mm

For everyday use, those few mm's make a big difference on catching it on things.

I think 13 or less is very reasonable. 8 is like 'wow!' thin for an automatic. at least to me it is anyways.

^^^ That may be the difference, automatic. My Skagen is battery...which lasts about 3 years.

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Even though we don't change our clocks in AZ, I would never go a year without adjusting my watch, because I travel a lot and always set my watch for my destination time zone when we lift off.

How about an automatic at 1.75mm? Now that’s thin and will make your wallet real thin at $1.9 million!

Made by Richard Mille and Ferrari branded.

My Casio Pro Trek Tough Solar sets itself every nigh at midnight. It is never off more that 1/2 a second after many years. Never needs a battery, as the solar cell charges it with the light of the day.

Pretty sure my cell phone syncs all the time, so yes.

People still wear watches?

I have had a couple of Skagen's. I'm pretty sure they are quartz. The first one was great. The second one died a premature death. I like the chain mail style metal bracelets and that they are thin and light weight.
Yeah, the Skagens aren't, I don't believe, automatic.

[QUOTE=stevej37;12438792]^^^ That may be the difference, automatic. My Skagen is battery...which lasts about 3 years.

The Skagens are all battery driven.

LOL! I wear 2, one is an automatic, that was a gift, and that I love for several reasons. The other is a smart watch which is a great accessory for my phone.

To me the automatic watch is a small FU to the borg. I don’t need to be hooked up to rented e storage to know the time.

My Apple Watch is always correct. And it keeps track of my heart rate, can check my ecg, blood oxygen levels and a bunch of other 5hit…

Better than that…

My Casio sets itself listening to the time on the radio every night. It’s nice to have watch that’s always correct.

Casio markets it as ‘atomic time’. The counter lady at jc penny that showed me the watch told me it actually had an atomic clock inside.

My beloved 1970s Seiko diver finally broke. Haven’t found a place to rebuild it yet. Now I’ve gotten to the point that I don’t feel naked without it. Watches are just jewelry or habit, for 90% of people. I will eventually get it fixed or find another watch, but I can’t say that I’ve found being watch-less in any way inconvenient.

I have no need for such precision in a wristwatch. I wore a Citizen Eco-Drive dive watch for 25 years and it was very good but within 1-2 minutes per year is plenty good enough precision for my application. It was also $300.