Officine Panerai

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 significant loss or gain in time keeping. Just the usual 1 sec per day. Has anyone experienced this? Thank you.

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, etc..) there wasn't any winding of the watch. 

-MW

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 winding, and yes, it was fully wound.

The first time it happened, I bought it to Richemont in Moscow, and they did a quick diagnostic and it checked out ok. It was on average 1 sec fast. And when it happened the second time, I was very sure that it was not my imagination that it happened again. After landing, I monitored for a day and it resumed its accurate time keeping. It has been a week since and no other problems. It really is bizzare!

Any others with similar experiences?

and I fly a lot, with multiple Panerai's models. Just lucky I guess....

Cheers

Travelling very fast ? .Einsteins theory at work LOL.

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.

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

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.