WATCH POP

If I wear a self-winding watch every other day or so, maybe 1.5 days on the shelf at most, will the fact that the watch hasn't been wound in a while result in a negative or positive change? My initial guess is that a negative change would be seen, if any.

Take this example: Yesterday I wore the watch all day. I kept track of the accuracy in a 10.5 hr period. My watch was 2.29 seconds fast (per day). Today, I did a similar test for the same length of time; the only difference being I wound the watch many times during an early meeting at work (yes, it was a boring meeting). The results of the later test showed only a .69+ sec/day.

If my watch wasn't wound completely during the first test, I would think it would be slower than if it were. I know there are many other factors that go into this, but it's interesting to track this stuff. I'll repeat my tests and see if I have similar results. You'll have all the time in the world... Although not scientific, my observation is that as watch winds down it speeds up. Just MHO. ROLEX: GMT II (Pepsi Bezel), Submariner Date (1983). BREITLING: Navitimer. OMEGA: Speedmaster Date (1997), Speedmaster Pro (3573.50). TISSOT: Chronograph (circa 1966 and still keeps great time!). CONCORD: Chronograph Quartz (1988). When your watch gets out of order you have a choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest. -MT Some suggest to wind an auto completely before using it. It assures a full wind and accurate timekeeping. In my six
autos, I just wind them about 10 turns and wear them and it seems to be OK and soon my arm movements take care of it.

The modern watches should run almost the same from full to mod. to low mod, to low wind.

I also tried to wear and alternate two autos every other day, and can't seem to notice any big difference I can attribute to the wind.