Horological Meandering

JMan
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how do you set your watches?

Hello All,

We buy watches that are quite accurate and pay a lot of extra cash to get more accuracy/precision. The question I have for you is how do you set the time? Most have multiple mechanical watches but not everybody uses a watch winder. Of course if it is hand wound watch that you dont use regularly, we all have to "restart" our watches. I am interested in your restart habits.

I guess I am pretty anal about setting my watch to the second to some reference time. I typically used to bring the watch down from my room to my computer, look up the official US time at www.time.gov and set my watch to the second. Since my watches dont have hacking feature, I pull the crown out, set the minute hand, wait for the reference time to equal the seconds on my watch, and quickly push the crown back in. Am I the only one who is crazy?

To avoid looking up the time on internet, I decided that I should have a watch in my collection that could act as a "reference watch". So late last year I purchased the Seiko Power Design Project Solar SBPG003. With 5 bands it is automatically syncs with atomic clock frequencies. Cant get a whole lot more accurate than this. I love the retro look but at the same time I had never liked the plast-ikky feeling of the rubber bracelet used on the old digitals. It is replaced by a simple but metal bracelet.

So this is my story. Look forward to hearing yours....

J.