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No, I wouldn't go to the trouble of sending a watch back (especially to Singapore or Germany!) for that, not when I have a shop who can regulate it right here. But +15 sec./day is, as Multum said above, about twice what it should be -- off by 100%. Wouldn't you worry about a car that is supposed to get 30 mpg on the highway, but only gets 15?I will take the contra.
I am not cracking the back open of any auto watch for 15 seconds a day while it is still in warranty unless it is going back to the warranty provider. I would not send a watch back to the warranty provider for 15 seconds a day.
It gets lost, it gets damaged, it does not get fixed right, it lets in water when it did not before. I am late for nothing re 15 seconds a day.
As I have posted before, I simply do not get the "accuracy" fascination in an automatic watch when virtually any quartz is far more accurate, particularly day in day out on sub 1000.00 automatics and sub 300.00 quartzes. Accuracy, IMHO , is not why you buy ANY automatic watch.
Even when we go to "certified " watches, the expectations/capabilities between a quartz watch and and automatic is astounding
COSC - Wikipedia
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COSC-Auto = -4/+6 per day=2.4 -3 minutes a month, approx. 28-36 minutes a year
COSC-Quartz= .-07/+.07 per day= 2 ish seconds a month, approx 25 ish seconds a year
The "accuracy" fascination with automatic watches is precisely because they are NOT quartzes. It's utterly amazing to me that the automatics can keep this kind of time without the quartz technology. If an automatic is capable of 7-8 sec./day, I want it to approach that.