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mawelsh
2
May 2, 2017
I just wanted to leave a note for potential purchasers that might work at a computer most of the day. The movement this watch uses is the same as in my Mako USA II which I love but I have noticed on my desk days the movement tends to sprint forward quite a bit. Any days I'm out doing field work or weekends spent roaming around it keeps great time (3-4 seconds slip) but my desk days I see as much as a minute. I've asked around reddit and watchseek and it seems to actually be a fairly common complaint. The movement is definitely "fine" but something about pounding on a keyboard seems to wig it out a bit.
Pinhead
86
May 4, 2017
mawelshThe factory specs for the F6922 movement used in these watches are supposedly something like -15 to +25 sec/day. In practice, on the wrist, Orient movements tend to be better. I have a Mako USA II, and it's around +9 sec/day, on the wrist (that's with me constantly banging on a keyboard). It doesn't seem to be unusual for these watches to be under +10 sec/day.
If you take it off, leave it on a desk, and see it off by a minute a day, that's unusual, and possibly out of spec. However, the key metric is how it keeps time on the wrist, and, if you're seeing it at +3-4 sec/day, you're doing well. I'm not sure you have any recourse if the watch is ~+60 sec/day on a desk.
Also note that a watch keeps different time in different positions, possibly significantly. For example, the watch might run faster dial up than crown down (dial vertical). This also varies from watch-to-watch.