oagaspar

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stew77 wrote: oagaspar wrote:
stew77 wrote: oagaspar wrote:
after 99hrs./ 4 days lying flat in its Swatch plastic case it gained @ 2 mins. ...not bad for a watch breaking in and not being worn imo.
Will be interesting to see if the movement breaks in and improves timekeeping as the movement gets more time.
According to SWATCH, the claim is the SISTEM51 movement receives final regulation via laser to set the tolerances when the movement is placed in the watch and never needs regulation again... (Swatch says they are shooting for an accuracy of +/- 5 second accuracy over 24 hours, so I would have expected better timekeeping than you are seeing over 4 days.)
The power reserve on this thing is absolutely amazing, and the concept of an all machine built movement is quite an achievement.
I think mine will need to settle in due to the long times it spent in Customs...a total of 32 days,37 days total to get to me in what is the coldest winter in some time..it arrived pretty cold and wasn't packaged for crap to protect it from the elements and handling other than its plastic case in a mailing envelope...I gave it another full wind and we will see this time around.
Makes sense...will be interested to see how she settles in Oscar!
I should have let it warm up before winding it to test,but since Swatch left out what I believe to be important is a hack feature,so it's not as easy to get an exact set time as with a movement that actually hacks.
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