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Question - which watch keeps the best time?

Protocol - All watches set to atomic clock and allowed to run continuously on the human subject's body or kept on watch winders. No watches allowed to run down for the duration of the test. After 7 days the timing results [most time spent on winders] were as follows –


Results -

16. Steinhart BS LE2 +9.3 secs/day

15. Steelfish (blue dial) +5.7 secs/day

14. IWC 7 Day +5.0 secs/day

13. Chopard MM Chrono +4.8 secs/day

12. (tie) Skyracer & IWC YC +3.8 secs/day

10. IWC Aqautimer +3.1 secs/day

9. Montbrillant Olympus +1.8 secs/day

8. Zenith Chronomaster +1.3 secs/day

7. PAM 320 +1.1 secs/day

6. Omega “Great White” +1.0 secs/day

5. Omega Planet Ocean + 0.86 secs/day

4. Breguet Type XXI + 0.7 secs/day

3. Boschett CaveDweller +0.4 secs/day

2. B1 -0.01 secs/day

1. Steelfish (white dial) DEAD ON




Conclusion - The white dial Steelfish when worn on a "gold" OEM croco with an after market bifold clasp will keep ATOMIC time. We don't know why, but our results and analysis are clear.

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SHARKMAN

Nice Thanks for sharing!

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Breanach78

A Few Breitlings.

So, Mr Shark, if you put the gold OEM croc on your other Steelfish it will keep atomic time too.

Thanks for the info. In all seriousness it was very interesting.

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Hmmm. The data is inconclusive.

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SHARKMAN

oh...i have a blue steelfish and it's also running +5.5

damn the white one!

My last purchase, Seawolf +10sec.
Certified Chronometre eh?

P.S.: My Alfex (yes, cheap swiss watch) was +15sec. I opened and regulated and now is about +2secs.

Ha! Very cool. I might challenge you on the use of TWO decimal points in the accuracy reporting. I might say that even a tenth of a second is difficult to "measure"

Might need to do a gage R&R on this measurement system!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOVA_Gauge_R%26R

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” - Albert Einstein

I KNEW someone would say that. I'm just taking it to the second OVER A PERIOD OF 7 days and dividing by 7. Thus decimal points - some rounded up or down.

Engineers. Sheesh

Oh, and the B1 should have been 0.1, not 0.01. Rounded down from 0.14 mind you.

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SHARKMAN

Jeez...it's not rocket science. 6 seconds fast over 7 days is +0.86 seconds per day....didn't think you had a high powered stop watch....like in the olympics...to gauge the accuracy.

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"I don't own any watches, I just lease them"

I prefer a sundial.

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SHARKMAN

I own a IWC Aquatimer and its just as accurate as my PO when I had it @ around 1-2 sec a day. The movement out of the bunch that I would accept better results from is the 7 day movement in the IWC. For an in-house movement its shouldn't be losing that much time.

Am I the first to point out that measuring the timing on the IWC's is premature because they haven't had time to settle?

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Steelfish GMT LE (white)

Expressly? Yes. I thought it implied. And next week the Steelfish could be off. There are too many variables to draw conclusions, which is why my conclusion was intended as comical.

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SHARKMAN

Soooo serious. I'm just saying that the new additions should get a fair shot! The interwebs can be so hostile. This is why I hate lawyers.

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Steelfish GMT LE (white)

I hear it every day!

It's this kind of attention to detail that keeps bridges from falling down.


EDIT: Is it sick that I get a kick out of being so damned pedantic?

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” - Albert Einstein