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Well, thanks to everybody on this forum, I received my Steelfish 2 days ago. I'm still visiting a friend out of state, so I am not making a formal review at this time.

I did notice that the watch looses 20 seconds every half day. I never wound the watch because it was running when it arrived. I did remember that you can wind the watch manually and so I did. I didn't actually count, but I'm sure I did at least 40 times and it still was winding. Is it supposed to stop?

I will give it a few days to "break-in" and recheck the accuracy. In the mean time, I'm hacking the $2150 Breitling against the $250 iPhone twice daily.

Please give me words of support that this will settle down.......

You can't overwind an automatic as it has a slip clutch so it will keep turning all day without tightening up - that's not an issue.

It will settle down over the first few weeks of ownership, but 20 seconds is rathaer a lot. If it doesn't show signs of improvement then take it to an AD and get it regulated.

When I got my Steelfish the time regulation was VERY erratic to say the least. At one point approximately two months after I bought it it was as much as 45 seconds a day fast. I am very anal about watch accuracy and it was driving me crazy! But I waited it out to see what would happen and now over the last four months it is accurate to -.05 seconds a day. That's just my experience and as Roff said it should settle down. If not, then to the AD for sure.

You can use a ninety-nine cent swap meet clock as well. I can guarantee it will perform better than even the most accurate Breitling.

Anyway, id give it a few weeks at least. See how its going then. If its still off, your AD will take care of it for you.

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-RJ

I used to use the breitling webiste to check time, i would log on one day ,go to work, go to bed and then check the same time the next day and see how it did, when i used to check with the time on my phone i found i was looking every hour which was becoming annoying. not too mention an excuse to continually check out the website

The problem with that logic is that the Breitling website doesn't have the time on it!

It has a routine that displays the time from your computer.

Well....

It's been a week since I got my Steelfish. After the first 2 days of 20 second losses each 8 hours, I actually wound the watch. It's been pleasingly accurate since. I didn't check it today, but yesterday it was off by 1 second or so after 5 days.

Maybe the watch, although running when I got it was actually at the end of its power reserve?!?!?!

If I understand the instructions and the chronometer certificate correctly, my very watch was actually handled and certified be the independent facility that certifies them. I honestly thought that they were "batch" certified. I never realized they were individually certified. I wonder how much of the cost for the watch goes into this process?

good to see things are settling down on the fish.

Your watch wasn't certified - the movement was before it ever came close to the watch itself. Every movement is independently tested.

A low power reserve will have some minor impact on accuracy, though not much on a watch with a relatively low power reserve - it's a bigger issues on 7 and 8 day power reserve watches, and it wouldn't be that big a difference.

More likely the watch was still adjusting to running after sitting at the AD untouched for a while.

Hehe. Luckily my employer has a stratum 1 time server synced to an atomic.