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Two wrists - Two watches
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14-02-2014 9:52pm#1Anybody else done this? (I know Wibbs has
) I've just got in from work wearing a marathon navigator on my left hand and an automatic on my right, theory being I can test the accuracy of the automatic. and it looks cool
Do I have a problem? 1
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Skill Magill wrote: »Anybody else done this? (I know Wibbs has ) I've just got in from work wearing a marathon navigator on my left hand and an automatic on my right, theory being I can test the accuracy of the automatic. and it looks cool
Do I have a problem?
Hunter S Thompson was known to wear two watches at a time. There are photos if you Google. I have heard of watch makers wearing two watches to test accuracy before also.0 -
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I'm afraid so yes SM. The above bolded text should tell you all that you need to know.Skill Magill wrote: »Anybody else done this? (I know Wibbs has ) I've just got in from work wearing a marathon navigator on my left hand and an automatic on my right, theory being I can test the accuracy of the automatic. and it looks cool
Do I have a problem?
:D
BTW and funny enough when doing this back in the day with an old Casio G shock on one wrist and my 1916 Longines on the other and comparing the two in rotation, after a month the old fart was actually more accurate overall. I know, mad or wha? :eek: It might be out a few seconds a day on the wrist, but would then make up the diff off the wrist. Then again at the time it had had some amazing balance work done on it by a real artisan(and few enough general watchmakers these days would be up to, or be arsed with balance work of that level on a vintage piece). The same guy, now sadly passed did the same kinda work on my '30's Zenith pilots yoke and that was scarily accurate, like pass chronometer tests with ease type accurate. Big movement with a big balance helps though. Some of those high end pocket watch type movements of the past were capable of remarkable accuracy*.
The movement in the Marathon is a cheap one jewel quartz job. Enough to do the job for the military, but the two I had gained a couple of seconds per day. Maybe I was unlucky though? I'm one of those who kills quartz watches. Very very few last long without going weird on my wrist. I've no explanation as to why, just going on experience. Indeed this issue was one reason I started collecting mechanical watches back in the 1980's when that shít was considered well weird and Swatches were all the rage. So was Adam Ant and Benetton pastel jumpers at 200 quid a pop so you know that decade was fooked up. :pac:
*What helped more IMH was that both had lain in drawers unloved for decades so wear of parts wasn't a big issue. For me in general I'd much rather a drawer/attic find that had lain inactive, with gummed up oils for five decades, than a daily wearer of the same vintage. Like a barn find Ferrari covered in dirt with 12000 miles on the clock is gonna be a better bet than the same aged Ferrari with 200,000 miles on the clock.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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