Dorkulating
Tiffany came up with a word called dorkulating; it basically applies to something you do that can only be appreciated by another dork/nerd/geek/hacker interested in that field. Something like messing around on the Linux command line or building something that is only useful to one person.
In this case, I will be dorkulating over my watches. I am curious how accurate my watches are. This page will record how they are doing periodically. Technically, what I am doing is horology. I hope to add to this collection of accuracies in the coming months.
Main Watch:
Seiko Kinetic Model: SKH640 Calibre: 5M62 Serial # 2719** Manufactured July 2002. Japan Movement.
Date | Time (NIST) | Time (Watch) | Variance from NIST | Day to Day Variance |
9/17/2007 | 12:03:00 | 12:03:00 | 0 | 0 |
9/24/2007 | 1:24:45 | 1:24:45 | 0 | 0 |
10/8/2007 | 12:34:32 | 12:34:32 | 0 | 0 |
10/22/2007 | 12:00:00 | 12:00:00 | 0 | 0 |
In over a month, this watch has not gained or lost any time according to NIST time keeping.
New Watch!
Seiko 5 (Automatic) Model: SNX425K2 Calibre: 7S26B Serial 7306** Manufactured March, 2007. Unknown country of manufacture.
Date | Time (NIST) | Time (Watch) | Variance from NIST | Day to Day Variance |
11/8/2007 | 11:35:45 | 11:35:40 | -5 | 0 |
11/9/2007 | 11:31:00 | 11:31:13 | +15 | 20 |
11/12/2007 | 11:45:00 | 11:45:58 | +58 | 14.3 S/Day |
Reset Watch |
I have read that Seiko 7S26 movements are fast from the factory, I guess they are right. They say that it takes a month or two until everything wears in and you can see the true accuracy of the watch.