Okay, I admit it. I don?t really care about my watches? accuracy. Don?t get me wrong, I want my watches to be relatively accurate ? and I certainly want them to be in spec ? but I want the watchmakers to care about that so I don?t have to. At the end of the day, I just can?t bring myself to care all that much about a couple of seconds over the course of a day. After all, what?s 10 or 15 seconds held up against 86,400" The world doesn?t really operate on that sort of accuracy, and my day-to-day writing about watches certainly doesn?t demand it.
That said, while I may not care all that much about accuracy in the abstract, I love it when brands pursue accuracy. I?m a sucker for a clever escapement, a new technique, or a wild swing, and beyond all that, I love the creativity that the pursuit of accuracy tends to elicit. So when Horage announced the Revolution 3 Microreg last week, it certainly caught my eye.
The standout feature of the Horage Revolution 3 Microreg, which was made using technology developed by Swiss engineering firm Miniswys, is the ability to regulate the watch at home using a miniature electric motor connected to the escapement?s regulator and controlled by an external dock which allows adjustment in increments as low as 0.1 seconds. Pair this with what is already a COSC-certified movement and what you get is the potential for a remarkably accurate watch that bridges the gap between, as Horage puts it, regulation and reality.

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