Finally found the answer to why.....

Jul 05, 2011,22:56 PM
 

I have been having problems with my watch running fast. And it gains something like 2 minutes a day on one occasion and 3 minutes a day on another. And the trouble maker is the security machine at the airport!!!! That machine you walk through for security can make your watch go crazy. Ever since then, I take my watch out and put it with my bag going through X-ray. And voila, no problems with magnetism ever since.

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Panerai, Air travel, aircraft magnetism

 
 By: mattie123 : March 15th, 2011-20:25
Has anyone's Panerai been affected by aircraft's magnetism? I have noticed that it runs slow in the air . It lost about 5 minutes for the 12 hour flight. It has been 2 days now and since the flight, it works perfectly well. There has not been any signific... 

re: Air travel

 
 By: DRMW : March 15th, 2011-21:51
Was it a automatic movement? In light of everything returning back to normal, if you did a 12 hour flight it may be possible that due to inactivity (sleeping on the plane, lack of movement of the wrist, doing nothing at the terminal waiting for the flight... 

mechanical watch It happened twice !

 
 By: mattie123 : March 16th, 2011-00:03
I was very careful the second time ( on the return leg) to make sure watch is fully wound, after changing the time back to local time. I went to sleep checking the time, and when I woke 8 hours later, it was already slow by 3 minutes. I checked the windin... 

I personally never had problems while flying around......

 
 By: sirjo : March 16th, 2011-01:33
and I fly a lot, with multiple Panerai's models. Just lucky I guess.... Cheers

What aircraft were you on ?

 
 By: dreamer8 : March 16th, 2011-17:55
Travelling very fast ? .Einsteins theory at work LOL.

A commercial plane magnetism

 
 By: mattie123 : March 16th, 2011-18:07
Was a B777. I have a chance to monitor it today against the cmoputers clock. In the last 24 hours, -2 secs difference. I will have a chance again to test out my observation when I fly again tomorrow.

I've never experienced that before and never heard of it

 
 By: AnthonyTsai : March 16th, 2011-19:36
Maybe when you're on the plane, you have an electronic device always near your watch which is the culprit of the magnetism? - AT This message has been edited by AnthonyTsai on 2011-03-16 19:36:57

Finally found the answer to why.....

 
 By: mattie123 : July 5th, 2011-22:56
I have been having problems with my watch running fast. And it gains something like 2 minutes a day on one occasion and 3 minutes a day on another. And the trouble maker is the security machine at the airport!!!! That machine you walk through for security...