I bought my first “real” watch a few months ago and I love it, however it has lost a lot of time over the past month and I’m concerned it could be defective. I’m pretty new to watched so I don’t know if this is common/normal/acceptable, but my GMT has lost 4 minutes of time since I set the time over 30 days ago using time.gov as a baseline. During those 30 days it has never stopped and I manually wind it just about every night around the same time. Is this acceptable or should I send it back to Seiko for a new one? Thanks!
That sounds normal. I was surprised and disappointed by this when I got my first automatic. Currently in a smartwatch phase, with occasional automatics in the mix. I’m perhaps over fixated on exact time. I also use time.gov.
I’m that people don’t go to find this stuff out in the course of learning about mechanical watches. In my experience I’ve almost never needed electronic-level accuracy. But if you are worried, regular quartz watches and those with radio control and/or Bluetooth are gonna be your best friends
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I bought my first “real” watch a few months ago and I love it, however it has lost a lot of time over the past month and I’m concerned it could be defective. I’m pretty new to watched so I don’t know if this is common/normal/acceptable, but my GMT has lost 4 minutes of time since I set the time over 30 days ago using time.gov as a baseline. During those 30 days it has never stopped and I manually wind it just about every night around the same time. Is this acceptable or should I send it back to Seiko for a new one? Thanks!
That sounds normal. I was surprised and disappointed by this when I got my first automatic. Currently in a smartwatch phase, with occasional automatics in the mix. I’m perhaps over fixated on exact time. I also use time.gov.
I’m that people don’t go to find this stuff out in the course of learning about mechanical watches. In my experience I’ve almost never needed electronic-level accuracy. But if you are worried, regular quartz watches and those with radio control and/or Bluetooth are gonna be your best friends