[ferongr]

Which is completely asinine, as mechanical watches, even expensive ones are inaccurate by many seconds every day.

[Ancapistani]

“Many” seconds per day strikes me as an overstatement.

The Hamilton I’m wearing right now gains about 10 seconds per week. I set it about once every 3-4 months - that’s hardly an onerous task.

[silisili]

I'd say you got a lucky one. From Hamilton's own site -

> Most watches that do not have a chronometer certificate have an average course deviation of -10/+15 seconds per day. To be called a Chronometer, the mechanical watch mechanism must have an average course deviation of -4/+6 seconds per day.

[theK]

I agree it's not perfect but:

1. For cases where seconds matter in human interaction there are well know and efficient protocols to sync

2. Often 2-3 seconds turn out to not matter but being on the right time zone does. It is an evolutionary development after all so (at least at some point) there exists a large market for this feature

[halgir]

They're so perfectly imperfect, and that's why we love them.

[CydeWeys]

It's useful while traveling across time zones. You'd lose a lot more time if you had to hack it while changing the local time setting.

[xmcqdpt2]

Is it? You have a phone, you can just sync to it when you change timezone. Or is not looking at your phone part of the hobby?

[tedunangst]

I don't know about seconds, but it's pretty nice to adjust the hour without having to reset the minute hand.

[snitty]

Rolex are +/- 2 seconds per day.

[ferongr]

That's terrible. Hacking prevention would make sense if they were ±2 seconds a month.

[thrawa8387336]

It's art