A couple of days ago one of the tool-watch centric, Instagram accounts asked, "what is on your wrist". The typical response is from some sort of a legitimate tool watch, generally but not always Swiss in origin. A lot of micro brands represented as well, with watches almost always in the $1000+ to $2500-$3000 range if not quadruple the highest number I've quoted here.
True or not, mentioning a Chinese watch running at the equal to or better than 98% (in my lengthy experience) of any Swiss mechanical tool watch was not welcomed.
I'm not a Watchdives fan boy. I have a number of watches to choose from. What matters to me is how durable and just as importantly, how accurate a watch is. It is what it is, numbers don't lie. Watch reviewers? Not always so easy to sort that subject out.
So, no one's fan boy. I just like a good watch that I can rely on in hard use. From carrying a gun professionally, to back-country, wilderness skiing. A reliable and accurate watch is important to me. What a watch costs is not a part of my equation, for a "good watch".
And I have no problem making legitimate comparisons and publishing them.
Here are a couple of interesting observations. Make of it what you like.
A WDs 5512B. Watch was set 2 weeks ago on Atomic time. And then worn 24/7 or left on a winder. Only noticeable deviation has been a second or two slow or fast in that time frame, as big wind and thunderstorms and the resulting changes in air pressure have rolled through. With the watch eventually coming back to, or very close to -0- spd within 48 hours every time.
The Ultra was set to atomic time 72 hrs ago. Current msrp retail is $6900 plus tax. One of the most accurate Swiss mechanical watches I have owned.. The Ultra is and has been since day 1, running at +1spd if you like it or not and well within the current METAS standards. METAS has certainly left COSC standards in the past century, where they rightfully belong.
This WDs 5513q was set to atomic time almost exactly 2 months ago. And is by far the thinnest, lightest and easiest to wear watch of the three. $135 delivered in the US.
Sorry about the confusing times posted on the different watches. I had forgotten to add the FXD in the original post. Worth knowing I suppose, my grandfather's, hand wound, 1903, Waltham railroad watch, is every bit its equal for accuracy long term.
The FXD shown above, retails for $5025 currently and was set to atomic time a few weeks ago. Currently @ a +3 second overall time gain for those 2 weeks while on a winder the majority of time. Still great results for a mechanical. tool watch.
I love a good mechanical watch. But one might question the rational of "why". And even more importantly, "why the cost" of a Euro?
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