Hey, Bud - what time is it? Oh, you have a Rolex? Never mind...

That self-winding perpetual-movement monstrosity strapped to your forearm is accurate across a hemisphere’s worth of time zones. But no matter how extravagantly handcrafted or precisely engineered your Rolex is, it’ll never be as accurate as a cheap digital gas station watch. Here’s why.

Both a Rolex Submariner and a $10 Casio can tell the time. They answer different needs; choose by which mix of accuracy, durability, status signaling, service cost, and ownership experience matters to you. 

$10 quartz Casio: Typical quartz accuracy ±15 to ±30 seconds per month (often better in cheap modern modules). Extremely stable day-to-day, minimal drift, battery change every 2–10 years.

Rolex Submariner (automatic mechanical): COSC-certified variants run within −4/+6 seconds per day (though many Rolex movements perform closer to ±2–4 s/day in practice). Mechanical watches are inherently less stable than quartz and sensitive to position, temperature, and magnetism. 

 

So there. For the record? I have a Rolex Oyster S/S in my jewelry box that I haven't worn in 20 years, at least. Think it might be time to cash that sucker in and take a trip to Switzerland with the proceeds. Juss' sayin'...

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Have you ever tried one of these?

 

When you fill this thing and turn it on, it gets the water to boil in about a minute. 

Use that water for your coffee or tea or whatever you need boiling water for. 

Juss' sayin' - I like it. Click on the picture and get one for yourself. 

This one is less than $ 24.00, but the one Barb bought last year cost over $ 40.00, 

and they both do the same exact thing.

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