ETA movements explained

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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote:Whilst I agree with the Laird and jmarchitect about rotating watches and not being TOO worried about accuracy, there has to be a compromise.
CW claim a tolerance of -10/+20 sec for the ETA and Sellita movements in most of their watches. I find all my mechanical watches fall within these parameters...that's reasonable, whereas I would want an error of one minute regulating.
If you really need greater accuracy than this, then you should, as Downer said, look at quartz.

Mark, didn't you have a quartz chronometer at one point...and send it back? :? :? :?

I did indeed as it was part the style and part being Quartz

So hence I now have a Quatz C13 for setting my watches and now fighting with my self to buy the C50 so sending back the Brooklands in favour of the C50 was the right move.. I can see my self with a C50 It would nice to know what other watches are being planned as £600 is adecent amount of money to pay if some thing else is better and in the stages of development.

So am I happy I sent back the Brooklands, = yes now the C50 is available.
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markuk wrote:1 Min a day!

Sorry for pratical reasons if mine was that bad it would be Image
Due to being 7 mins out in a WEEK! :shock:
:) :)

But think about it... by the time it's more than 5 minutes out it's the weekend - and who cares about 5 minutes at the weekend?
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what's a weekend?

being self employed the week and weekend all roll into one. Don't even talk to me about holidays :?

I do run around like clock work with my company. Appointments are run by the min and I get **** off if customers are late or not where they say they are when they are ment to be. Like today, one just was not in and then that ment I was 25 15mins early for my next appointment. It's not often I am held up and end up being late my self. It just does not happen.

How ever when i have time off I can switch off and that's different. So watch must be decent time I guess a mechanical watch at 6 seconds aday is cool.
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markuk wrote:... Don't even talk to me about holidays :?
So, about your holidays... :twisted:

... but back to your original point, I have regulated a couple of my watches and yes it is possible to get a 2824-2 or SW200 to run under 10s per day (if they aren't already). Unlike many movements these two have the convenience of a regulation screw and, rather than moving a lever (which, for me, either moves too far, or not enough), a twist of the screw alters the rate in quite a controlled manner. Realistically though, even with the screw, if I get inside 10s a day it's time to put the back on again.

You can see the little screw on the 2824-2 pictured top right in the forum banner.
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