Customer Reviews

Nice Watch Not So Sure About the Accuracy Review by KevinB

Recommendable

Recently purchase, love the aesthetic. It appears to be well made and, even under a magnifying glass, the text is crisp and the hands are well filled with lume. The indices are applied and, again, crisp. The legibility is excellent with the flat back watch face background. As far as doing its primary function, that of being a watch, I am well pleased.. I replaced the bracelet with a rubber strap so cannot comment on the comfort of the Steinhart bracelet other than to say it seems well made with solid end links and screw in links. The bracelet certainly dresses the watch up, on rubber it has a much more casual feel. The bezel is very (too) tight, but crisp none-the-less. There appears little/no back play. The GMT hand works as expect and lines up correctly, I find it very useful with staff in two different time zones.I have read the straight lugs make the watch wear big. I don't find this and, with a 17cm FLAT wrist, it looks as it should. I would go so far as saying that the 39mm version would have looked a little small. It has good weight and feel on the wrist and is not too hight to wear under shirt cuffs provided they are not

Up to this point I have read reviews in other forums of excellent accuracy out of the Sellita SW330-1 movement. Over a week of continuous wear (ie. not taking the watch off at all), mine runs from -14 seconds per day to +11 seconds per day. The AVERAGE turned out to be around +4 seconds per day. I don't know much about mechanical watches, but I would have thought the Sellita SW330-1 elabore movement could/should do better than this wide variance over a week. It means on any given day I don't know if I'm ahead or behind. The movement has these specs: Nickel balance wheel, adjusted in 4 positions, average rate of +/-5 seconds/day, (my note: is that every day should average +5spd or over a period of a week/month should average +5spd) maximum deviation of 20 seconds/day in all positions, isochronism of +/-15 seconds/day. So it would seem I'm within the average seconds per day. if it's over several days, but if it's supposed to average +5spd every day, then it is well out.

(Posted on 7/14/2022)