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<blockquote data-quote="thor447" data-source="post: 4179757" data-attributes="member: 24867">Just buy a quartz.&nbsp; The cheapest $10 quartz watch will keep better time than a Rolex, but it&#039;s about the engineering and craftsmanship of the mechanics that does it for me though.&nbsp; That&#039;s worth a few seconds per day. Back in the early days, 30 seconds a day in a single position was considered exceptional until the advent of the railroad standard of timekeeping (outside of the marine chronometer first invented to track longitude for sea travel).&nbsp; Now you have Spring Drive, which is the first real significant advancement in mechanical timekeeping since the co-axial escapement from George Daniels in 1974.&nbsp; You get quartz level accuracy, but driven mechanically and powered by a spring - no batteries.&nbsp; They advertise 1 second per day or less, and in most reviews you&#039;ll find it significantly less than 1 second per day.&nbsp;&nbsp; It took 28 years to get it from an idea to an actual production movement.&nbsp; Pretty interesting reading if you dig into it further.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thor447, post: 4179757, member: 24867"] Just buy a quartz. The cheapest $10 quartz watch will keep better time than a Rolex, but it's about the engineering and craftsmanship of the mechanics that does it for me though. That's worth a few seconds per day. Back in the early days, 30 seconds a day in a single position was considered exceptional until the advent of the railroad standard of timekeeping (outside of the marine chronometer first invented to track longitude for sea travel). Now you have Spring Drive, which is the first real significant advancement in mechanical timekeeping since the co-axial escapement from George Daniels in 1974. You get quartz level accuracy, but driven mechanically and powered by a spring - no batteries. They advertise 1 second per day or less, and in most reviews you'll find it significantly less than 1 second per day. It took 28 years to get it from an idea to an actual production movement. Pretty interesting reading if you dig into it further. [/QUOTE]

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