Alistair
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The Seiko 5's are easy enough to adjust if you want more accuracy. You'll need something to pull the case back, but Youtube has tutorials and they're cheap enough that it's no great heartbreak if you cock it up. Plus there's no water resistance to speak of, so no worries about that either.@baxterb
If I wear it every day it seems to lose about 1-2 minutes over a week, which is within their spec.
I rarely wear it for a week straight anyway so accept that I'll be resetting it each time I wear it.
Will probably end up getting a winder one day I suppose.
The one I referenced:
You can find various smartphone apps to get the readings. I used 'Watch Accuracy Meter'.
Mine was about -30seconds a day out the box, now I've fiddled with it and it's been consistently -5/day since. I could probably do better, but it's now good enough that I can just tweak it every couple of months (or just rest it on its side overnight if it's too far behind) which is fine for my purposes.
All in all, the Seiko 5 is not the most accurate piece out there, but they're pretty robust and the design philosophy is cool if you like good engineering solutions. Plus they look pretty nice and they're fantastic value.