Which means other late entries are permissible. What day is it today? I've lost track.... Wednesday. Let's say entries have to be in by 6pm BST on Saturday 4 April.
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Which means other late entries are permissible. What day is it today? I've lost track.... Wednesday. Let's say entries have to be in by 6pm BST on Saturday 4 April.
Ok ok! My G is slightly offended!
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Excellent chaps.
I’ll set the two watches (ETA 2824 automatic & Unitas 6497 manual wind no hacking) later this evening, take a picture with time.is and post them.
Thank you for allowing me to join this challenge (which is turning from only British to a European one...).
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Kind regards from Germany. L
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Since you are now taking late entries I'll add my Q Timex 1979 Reissue in the quartz category please...
https://i.imgur.com/e9f9ASAh.jpg
Is this one any good?
I did't reset it anyway https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e6c69e2062.jpg
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Glad to hear that entries are being taken again. I wanted the twins to join in this year to see how they compare.
Two quartz Seiko Silverwaves each with a sturdy 7546 movement. They have fresh batteries so should last the course (there, I've jinxed it now). https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...ed4fbeafe8.jpg
I'm going to throw the Seiko tuna solar into the quartz category.
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Thanks for the late entries!
I will give it a go with three entries.
Black Bay 58 - decent power reserve, so should be easier to keep going with a couple of hours wear, on days that it’s not being worn as main watch of the day.
Seiko 5 Sports SRPD63K - no screw in crown will make it easy to leave it lying around and give it a few winds to keep it running.
Animal quartz - I entered this one last year, but the battery failed part way through. Should be ok this year.
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Dear challenge fellows,
Here are my two (German) participants:
Wempe Unitas (ETA) 6498 manual wind non Hacking starts already with +39 seconds vs time.is:
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Sinn ETA 2824 automatic with +/- 0 seconds vs time.is:
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Stay healthy.
Cheers, L
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My new watch will be just out of quarantine by then so count me in!
Here is my entry for Mechanical :
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I've discovered that I feel uncomfortable hand winding an auto every day, so I'm going to pull this one, and replace it with a 1971 Seiko manual 7000-8000, which hasn't been serviced in almost six years. Over 30 weeks it's going to be out by at least half an hour....photo with time.is to follow....
Would anyone be offended if I enter this Smith’s clock as a non-points scoring entry?
It does have an 8 day movement and is very squarely in the sub-£1000 category. No second hand but I doubt that will affect the overall outcome.
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If not closed yet...please add another member of my Pamily...932
Quite a performance to have just about perfect considering that there's no hacking second https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c8ef655196.jpg
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I wasn't going to bother this year but as it's been extended I'll throw these two into the ring.
Is this going to be the only hummer(we will need a Tuning Fork category?) this time? I entered it last year after having just had it serviced, but it was pulled early and needed to go back for a new index wheel. Nice to give it a second attempt. Managed to get it within +1 second, quite a challenge with these tuning fork movements as there's a delay when you pull the crown it, and another when you push them back in.
https://i.postimg.cc/Kj8dwGC9/IMG-20200402-144321.jpg
No way I'll be able to do a Ben4Watches and keep a manual wind going for too long but I'll see what I can manage before I forget. Don't wear it sometimes for a week or so, so likely this will be the first one out with me forgetting to keep it wound. My personal challenge will be to avoid being first out :worked_till_5am:
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Will stick with just the two for this challenge.
As we’re still accepting entries I’ll add my speedy:
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It can spend the summer getting closer to the correct time....
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Can I add my 2018 Rolex GMT Master II 116710BLNR please. I've set it at exactly 5 minutes behind (-300secs) as of 10:35 today. The expectation is that it will catch up with correct time in late August.
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Can I add my Turtle please
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*locks the gates*
40 watches, well 39 watches and one clock.
I'll once a bit of time has passed, I'll start collecting up people's interim results and making little tables for each category. The updated tables will be put at the start of the OP, so that popping in to see how things are going is easily done.
There will also be a table for mechanicals that have dropped out, showing how long they were kept going for. This will be calculated from the day the watch was first posted on this thread.
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Here's how No.19 is doing - after six days it seems to have lost a sliver of a second
https://i.postimg.cc/zf60KcWK/20200404-184531-01.jpg
And No.35 - after a terrible opening day or two when its PR was low, it settled down into better form
https://i.postimg.cc/FKFnv6XQ/20200404-185301-01.jpg
Great field, for last year's challenge we had 26 so this should be even more fun...
0s change in week 1 :)
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oops read the rest of the thread, missed again.
I do have a pic from Monday morning though if prepared to accept a late retrospective entry?
http://truth.justdied.com/images/casiotime01.jpg
Casio MQ-24, 2s slow at that time and untouched since.
Has anyone noticed that the time.is website drifts slightly? I just checked my 9F GS against it and it suggested that it was 1 second out after a day. I refreshed the page and it's bang on.
time.is can take a few seconds to dial in, in my experience this tends to when there’s some connectivity issue; otherwise, refreshing the page should help.
Here is my second result. 4 days and drift of about +11seconds = about 2.5/day.
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I have to start teaching shortly so I couldn't do an exact update after 48 hours but here's my BLNR after 2 days. Looks to be running around +6 secs fast (+3 secs per day)
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Hmm about 1’45” fast already. I may not last the course.
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+1.7 second. Not bad, worn 24/7
A week in and the PAM is at -10s
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And the FOIS is at +1s
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There's my updates
I might not get the rules so please explain to me how often should we provide updates and if it's a standard report format
Thanks
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Update on the Turtle - not looking great, 50 secs behind already...no pic of the mighty Landmaster, but only a sec ahead.
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1 week, and +1s so far.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...55d8fcf555.jpg
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I can't bring myself to work out what time a watch without minute markers is reading, so (a) please write down the time being shown (b) specify which watch is which. I'm not spending 30 weeks remembering PAM numbers!
My 1971 Seiko manual is well on its way to losing the desired half hour....
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Hmm. Upon further investigation, it does seem that I wasnt paying attention to enough and when the second hand is closer to 30 mark it looks like only 50 odd seconds behind. Alas the watch is in fact almost 2 minutes behind. Well spotted sir and dammit!!!!
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I checked my Seiko sumo this morning and its at +2 seconds. They would be impressive were it not for the fact tomorrow or could be +35, - 40 or anywhere in between!