Frequent time changes and Quartz Battery Drain

Just added the Marathon Arctic TSAR to the collection this week and loving it! This has been my grail watch for nearly a decade and glad to finally have gotten one!

I’ve typically had solar quartz watches and 1 auto so I’ve not needed to think about battery life too much. While trying to figure out how to best set the time on the TSAR, I ended up making close to 12-15 times changes over 2 days – a lot, I know but the high torque module makes the minute hand jumpy and it took a while to…

Frequent time changes and Quartz Battery Drain

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SOTC Gallery

Question: What’s better than a picture of a watch?

Answer: A picture of a bunch of watches.

Let’s see your collection! Whether it’s 2 or 20, affordables, micro brands, the holy trinity, high horology, or just the stuff you like to wear. Who doesn’t l…

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Travel watch case ideas…

Here’s the story, we’ve sold the house, packing everything into a shipping container and relocating overseas… that’s stressful enough as it is, but then at the other end we’ll be imposing ourselves and the kids on the in-laws for up to a month while we…

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8L35

Anyone else have a negative long term experience with this movement? I have a MM300 that started off ok accuracy wise for the first ~10 months. My watch is a little more than 3 years old and now can lose up to a minute or more a day. In my personal exp…

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New Watch Collecting Achievement

So today I did something I’ve never done before, I bought a watch while making dinner!

So I’ve been thinking about the Bulova A-15 Pilot, and I’ve also been thinking about the Marathon Officer’s GPM.

I’ve been going back and forth between the two of them, paralyzed. I’ve watched all the videos, read all the blogs.

The A-15 would be perfect if it was a little smaller, in both diameter and thickness, and I’m also worried about the non-screw down crowns at 2 and 4. So I didn’t add it to any…

New Watch Collecting Achievement

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