kpruim wrote:
I just bought a Breitling AS (2-11-09), and my watch is 1 minute ahead over a week.
To me it is kind of hard to swallow that a watch over $4000 is sensative for these kind of things. I bought a Breitling to get swiss precision. If I want a watch for the looks and I don't care about a minute a week I would have bought a good fake one. One reason at the time for me to stay away from quartz was that everytime I had to replace the battery I had to pay for testing the water resistance. Now it looks like I have to get my watch adjusted or for some reason I'm magnetic possesed. I work with computers on a daily basis which makes me wonder if the strong magnet in the hard drive does this to the watch. Still I think it shouldn't matter in these days of age.
Please let me know what you think. Am I to anal about this?
Koen
A few things......
Your watch is not magnetised - I guarantee it. If it were a minute a week would be the least of your problems
COSC standard is -4 to +6 seconds a day or -28 to +42 seconds a week, so in contect your watch isn't far out.
You have had the watch for a week, presumably from new. The movement has therefore not yet settled - it is still adjusting to being on your wrist and being in constant motion. You will likely find that the accuracy improves over the next month or so - if by the end of March you find that the watch is still not in COSC specs then take it back to be regulated.
Also, you can control the rate of gain to some degree yourself. If you leave the watch laying on it's back overnight it will run slightly faster than if you leave it laying on its side (crown up). SO if you currently leave it on its back then try leaving it on its side and see what happens.
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