Horological Meandering

I ordered a few Sistem 51's online from the Swatch website, received them 5 days later. Good option if they are not in stores in your home town Stewart...  

Thanks for the information, Stewart. Looking at your photos it struck me that you are in a good position to comment on consistency between these two watches. One thing that an automated production line approach should bring to the table is greater consist... 

There is not a stop seconds function and the minute hand jumps a little when the crown is pushed in so synchronization will not be perfect. I have had the watches for 12 hours and initial impressions not good. They are running quite slow, have had to rese... 

I purchased 3 Sistem 51 watches from the Swatch Ginza boutique 3 weeks ago. On all of them, I saw the minute hand always takes a full minute before it starts to track the time when you're done setting the time and pushing the crown in. So whenever I set t... 

The watches all seem to be running and keeping god time now. I think they just needed to run for a little while and get warmed up. Three of them were running 5-10 minutes slow during the first 15-20 hours of operation, now they are keeping accurate time. ... 

I really wonder what is going on with those watches. There is nothing to "warm up" in a mechanical movement. One of these days I will get my hands on one of these and take it apart to see what is going on. Please keep us informed about your testing. Don

distributed as the watch runs? I am asking this seriously. I do not know about mechanical movements or car engines, but I have been told when I have bought a new one of either that after running a car engine or a watch when new that they will run better o... 

They are fun pieces, Stewart. Perhaps Ronald should try ordering through website instead of waiting. Kong

for people in my office. They all know I am a watch nut, and what is so great about this watch as you know is the mechanical movement made hands free for such a low price! I am trying to get my employees interested in watches whether they like it or not. ... 

nice Boss! SISTEM51 is a good starting point for anyone to appreciate mechanical watches. Please let them know the power reserve of 90 hours is very substantial too. Really looking forward to see your Thursday's whole team wristshots of SISTEM51.... hey, ... 

than they ever wanted to know:-) Power reserve, mechanical movement assembled and regulated hands free, automatic winding, mechanical watch for such a low price etc., etc. They have to listen to me if they want to get paid. HA! :-) Stewart