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Offline panlex

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How often do you adjust your watch?
« on: May 23, 2014, 02:42:31 PM »
I understand that mechanical watches are normal to have accuracy lag. Based on what I read +/- 5 secs/day is acceptable. That translates into +/-35 seconds a week.

That being said, how often do you adjust the time for your watch? I find it leceh to adjust it like every week or so.
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Offline CKL1213

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2014, 03:13:03 PM »
Once a month
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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2014, 03:28:18 PM »
If once a month, how much out is your accuracy by then?
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Offline CKL1213

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2014, 04:38:03 PM »
Minus 4 seconds a day

2 minutes a month
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Offline panlex

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2014, 07:13:45 PM »
Can anyone else share how often you adjust the time?
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Offline mike

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2014, 07:33:50 PM »
Once every few days.. Because I don't always wear my mechanical watch, and it stop moving just after a few days :-\
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Offline kenji1903

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2014, 05:44:30 AM »
don't usually adjust the time unless the watch stops...

mine's on an average +5secs/day... maybe +2 mins or so a month but usually it will stop during weekends cos i only wear it when i go out...
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Offline silverstan

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2014, 09:26:15 AM »
adjust my watch every time i want to wear them. Unless continuous wearing the same watch for the next day.
That mostly happens when i go for trip. (only bring 1 or 2 watches with me).  ;D
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Offline Calibr

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2014, 12:26:43 PM »
About once a month on my Explorer II 42mm.. Don't have to be accurate to the dot everyday everytime.. :Cheers:
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Offline meoramri

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2014, 06:44:35 PM »
Never needed to adjust.. Seldom wear my watches more than two days straight.  :Cheers:
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Offline dpkong

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2014, 10:20:22 PM »
I usually wear a watch for a few days so by the time it comes to change, the time has stopped anyway. I'm really liking the no date watches now...

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Offline Yoda

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2014, 06:37:10 AM »
I adjust everyday

New feel everyday
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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2014, 11:45:55 AM »
I adjust my watch every day...

i seldom wear the same watch more than one day...

sometimes two watches a day...
« Last Edit: May 28, 2014, 09:27:36 AM by jacky8888 »
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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2014, 11:53:07 PM »
This is one of the reason why I look for long power reserves on my watches. They would never have to stop working and I'd never have to worry about getting a watch winder. I can tolerate accuracy say until +6 to +8 sec per day, that would mean a maximum 8 minutes ahead every 2 months, the time you need to adjust the calender from 31 to 1 on a 30 days month. That works out to be at least 6 or 7 times a year. However, due to travelling and different time zones, I'll end up adjusting it more than that.

The one watch that I had adjust the most frequent is my hand-wound moon-phase watch. I'll normally let it run down right on the new moon or full moon day and wait till the next cycle 29.5 days until I wind it up again to wear it, to save the trouble of adjusting the moon phase to the correct day.

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Offline panlex

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2014, 05:56:53 PM »
Thanks for all replies.

One of the reasons I asked because I find my watch is faster by about 2-3 mins every week and I wind the watch every day.  This is after I sent in for a check and it got regulated. Is this acceptable?
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Offline swleong

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2014, 09:19:44 AM »
Quote from: dpkong on May 25, 2014, 10:20:22 PM
I usually wear a watch for a few days so by the time it comes to change, the time has stopped anyway. I'm really liking the no date watches now...

You are damn right on this, the watches with most wrist time for me now are the Sub 14060M and the Zenith Pilot, both no date.

no pain to set date.
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Offline Calibr

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #16 on: May 28, 2014, 03:19:55 PM »
Quote from: panlex on May 27, 2014, 05:56:53 PM
Thanks for all replies.

One of the reasons I asked because I find my watch is faster by about 2-3 mins every week and I wind the watch every day.  This is after I sent in for a check and it got regulated. Is this acceptable?

Depends on what watch you are referring to. If COSC-certified, for mechanical watches, the COSC standard is within +6 to -4 seconds a day, so for one week, your watch should be theoretically be faster by a maximum of 42 seconds. Of course there are many brands whose mechanical watches run more accurately than COSC, without being COSC-certified. Cheers!
« Last Edit: May 28, 2014, 03:22:15 PM by Verte »
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Offline TheWatchMan

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #17 on: May 28, 2014, 06:22:48 PM »
I usually adjust once a month. My watches so far average about 1-4s fast per day.
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Offline tagger

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2014, 08:48:24 PM »
question> how often we need to service the watch?
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Offline ivanpei

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2014, 11:07:18 AM »
I usually adjust whenever I need to tweak the date. So that's about once every two months. My Omega and Rolex both lose about 4-5 minutes every two months so that's ok and within specs.

Not really a big hassle.
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Offline SKy Lim

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2015, 09:15:24 PM »
Not advisable to adjust it frequently...if it stops,wind for about 30 times,as you wind you will feel its abit tense and hard to continue winding that would be your cue to stop...
If you wear often then no need to wind,as overwinding it will break the spring in it
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Offline kingpin

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2015, 09:23:21 PM »
Once a week on the watch that I seldom wear. Easy for other that only have day date, because you adjust it easily but for the moon phase... sigh. I need to keep on winding till the "day".
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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2015, 11:38:20 PM »
Depends on my watches, usually will let it run for few weeks then adjust or depending if the time is out more than 2mins.
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Offline keanewoon

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2015, 11:52:13 PM »
weekly because i seldom wear watch over the weekends, even i wear, it usually a gshock for weekend.

so, need to wind and adjust on monday morning... mayb a 70 hours power reserve suit me best
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Offline Timeless

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Re: How often do you adjust your watch?
« Reply #24 on: April 18, 2015, 08:07:07 AM »
every morning
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