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How is the timekeeping? Good, but not great. Basically just what you would expect from a stock 6R15 movement. In preparing for this post I did a couple days of time checks and my example loses about 4-5 seconds a link day (dial-up) but tends to become somewhat more erratic on the wrist (-3 one day, link +7 the next, maybe more). Please note that I did not use any legit accuracy testing equipment and that my results link are anecdotal.

To borrow from our link very own Watch 101 section, the traditional detent escapement "uses a very thin blade spring with a jewel mounted on it to hold link the escape wheel in place; a jewel on the balance trips the spring as link it passes, which releases the escape wheel, allowing it to advance. The escape wheel then gives impulse directly to the balance, and is locked again as the blade spring falls back into place."

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