Does your watch date flip over exactly at midnight?

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Originally Posted by dchernikoff

Thanks for the reassurances, everyone! I guess I thought with the COSC accuracy claims (mine is now gaining 1.4 s/day ) that it would click over EXACTLY at midnight. But as c.capt says, knowing the date at those hours of the morning is not exactly a high priority for me!

-Dan

The hands on the dial have little to do with what's going on inside except as a visual reference for time...

A mechanical watch will never click over at exactly midnight except by rare chance.. Most mechanical movements take 3 or 4 hours to change...

As mentioned, the watchmaker manually applies the hands to a finished watch movement as the last thing he does; they can get close, but a couple minutes either way is all you can hope for..