It would be great if you can provide your sources for this unfounded supposition when it comes to watches with hacking seconds.

 

This guy is just one of many people I’ve heard say it..

 

If it was bad for the watch, the feature wouldn't be present in the movement.

This is in contrast to "back hacking" a non-hacking watch to try to stop the seconds hand. As this can make the watch run in reverse, probably not a great thing to do.

 

This is in contrast to "back hacking" a non-hacking watch to try to stop the seconds hand. As this can make the watch run in reverse, probably not a great thing to do.

This is totally safe as well. It's even mentioned in some watch manuals.

 

No. It’s literally just a little piece of metal that stops the balance wheel.

 

That’s why I heard it’s bad. A lot of pressure stopping balance wheel immediately

 

In short, absolutely not.

 

No. Hack away.

 

Another question comes to mind. Is it OK to keep a watch in hacked state, lets say for a few days, so that the power reserve is not depleted?

 

I’d say also fine given a practical perspective that this might be done on occasion over 5 or 10 years. Not a concern. Kinda weird though.

 

Don’t listen to these monsters, they want to destroy your beautiful watches. You should never hack a watch, and if you have any watches that do hack, send them to me for disposal. I’ll pm you the address.

 

I'd recommend staying away from watches that are easily hacked, if they can get to your watch who knows what else they can do?

 

Definitely don't hack. It's bad. It's usually present on cheap watches like Rolex. High-end watches usually don't hack.
If you look at many Patek watches, VC watches, Zenith El Primeros (400 movt), or classic Omega Speedmasters - they all don't hack. Cause they don't want you to damage the watch.

/sarc
Ok, just kidding. Completely true about all those watches not hacking, but complete BS about it being bad for a watch.
The problem with reading stuff online, is that most of it is complete BS

 

Please excuse Arthur Gifford. He arrived here in a time machine from somewhere in the 1930s where hacking technology has yet to be perfected or trusted.

 

As stated in post#3, I think the OP is reading about back-hacking and assuming it is the same as hacking.

 

Hacking cough: bad.

Hacking watch: good.

 

News to me. Can you share the articles you read?

 

Yes I posted a video above and reply to somebody else.

 

Even worse, the earth is traveling around the galactic center at almost 490,000 mph. It's a wonder we're still alive!

 

Just today, my dog leapt after a squirrel and almost flew off into the ether.

 

Careful with the hacking, the FBI might be tracking you, and maybe the guy from the vídeo

 

Yes. That's exactly why Panerai has "updated" it's Luminor Due models to no longer have hacking seconds. By "fixing" this error, they can charge even more for their watches.

 

IIRC my Speedmaster manual suggests back hacking as a way to set the watch to a precise time source (since it doesn’t hack).

Not that doing that really helps as mine runs +5 secs/day anyway. Maybe it’ll settle down after it’s broken in.

 

It is complete BS.

 

Stop reading whatever or wherever you are reading this. Pick up the Encyclopedia Britanica, start at A and come back to us after Z.

 

Hack the planet

 

But can we find the crown of the planet? And if we can and we can pull it out, will all activity on Earth stop? ;-)

 

I had a GO cal 100 which had a case button for resetting the second hand to 0. They said it was better for the movement than conventional hacking. Yet their cal 39, still in production uses that convention. And how many millions of watches have been made that hack w/o any damage?

 

What are you hoping to do about it?

If the watch has a hacking movement there's nothing you can do to stop it from hacking other than going into the movement and removing the hacking lever. If it's designed to hack it's going to hack when you pull the crown to set the time.

There's no yes/no option. If it hacks it's gonna hack

 

If it's designed to hack it's going to hack when you pull the crown to set the time.

You could put it on at precisely the time it's stopped at.

 

Maybe theres an argument that hacking non-hacking watches manually-putting reverse pressure on the crown to stop the balance-is not that great for the movement, but in general nope.

 

It’s even worse if you do it while in the shower 😂

 

Yes, that's BS. Funny though, I've been reading watch related BS for 40+ years and have never read that.