I stuck a battery powered watch in my safe a couple months back and just pulled it back out to find that it’s running about two minutes behind true Atomic time. I figure that the only thing the watch is supposed to do is know exactly how long a second is, but it’s now off by more than 100 seconds.
So my question is, does dark and cold temperatures make the Watch run slower? How does that work?
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Most modern watches measure time by counting the vibrations of a piece of quartz. It’s slightly temperature sensitive, but not really noticably. And if anything, they get faster in cold, not slower.
More likely, it’s just a bad or aging quartz oscillator. They break down over time.
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