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Comment by QuercusMax

6 hours ago

A minute or two a DAY??? I get pissed off that the microwave in my kitchen loses a minute a week!

Yeah, but I'm sure your microwave isn't mechanical. What makes a mechanical watch cool, even a cheap one, is that there are no electronics at all - just gears and springs and things. I think that's worth a trivial bit of inaccuracy even if a boring $10 digital watch can easily beat a $200 mechanical one in accuracy.

  • My guy a mechanical watch should lose like a minute a _month_, tops. Get your watch serviced.

    • A real, completely mechanical watch? No battery or crystal? I'm sure my Seiko isn't be best there is and maybe it could be improved with servicing, but I think electronics have given people unreasonable expectations of accuracy

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