Absolutely Otto!
My only significant modern piece is a 2005 Quartz Omega Aquaterra, which as one would expect with a quartz does what it says on the tin. All of my other watches are vintage Heuer (2 quartz, 3 auto and a mechanical), so never cared so much.
I'm doing this basically for you guys as well as out of interest regarding the inhouse movement and because looks like nobody has before.
After 12 hours it seems to have lost just under 4 seconds....maybe 3.5 seconds. Most of that time has been on my table next to my bed in an AC cooled bedroom, so that may have slowed it more than normal.
We shall see how it is doing by 21:30 tonight and then I'll post the results, and maybe will continue taking pictures every day at around the same time so you can all draw your own conclusions. The watch will be worn during the day and on my bedside table at night, so should get a reasonably balanced result I hope.
The way I started the test was first to pull out the crown at zero on the chrono seconds dial, then set the time and push the crown in as the atomic clock hit 00. I then started the seconds hand with the pusher when the atomic clock hit 00, to make it easier to determine the time on pictures.
The start - crown pushed in to start time.
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Blurred photo trying to take picture whilst pushing pusher to start seconds hand.
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This morning at 07:30 it appears to be only 2 seconds lost.
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09:47 and shows around 3.5 seconds lost maybe. So maybe around 3 seconds is the truth based on previous indication at 07:30.
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I have no clue if this is the best way or most accurate way, so do feel free to chime in with suggestions if you think I could do this differently.
Once I've got bored with it all I'll post it up as a thread on the accuracy of the Heuer 02 movement.
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