Tickscope — Watch Accuracy

1.07 — A Rebuilt Measurement Engine, and Coaching When It Struggles • Far more accurate. The measurement engine has been rebuilt from the ground up. In tests against nearly 200 watches with known results, every reading landed within 2 s/d. • Copes with the air conditioning on. A long-standing flaw turned low rumble from fans, HVAC and mains hum into a false 10-per-second tick that could drown out the watch. It's fixed, and Tickscope now picks out much fainter watches in noisy rooms. • Ignores clicks and knocks. Tickscope now predicts exactly when each tick will land and listens only there, so taps on the table, another ticking clock or a loud metronome no longer throw off the reading. • Coaching when a measurement struggles. A card tells you what's getting in the way as you measure — background noise, faint ticks, clicks, the watch shifting, audio interruptions — and how to fix it. If a run can't produce a reading, Tickscope explains why, what it heard, and what to check. • Confidence you can trust. High now means high. When a reading is Medium or Low, you see what held it back and how to get a firmer one. No watch, no number: noise never produces a reading. • Beat error and amplitude are steadier, beat error stays right even with large asymmetry, and 36,000 bph watches are recognized reliably. • Magnetism Check, rebuilt. Turn your iPhone into a watchmaker's compass: pass your watch over it and see whether it swings the needle. A second mode measures the field around the places you keep your watch, against the ISO 764 anti-magnetic standard. If a reading runs fast, Tickscope suggests the test. • Anatomy of a tick. After each measurement, see your watch's escapement up close: the unlock, impulse and drop sounds averaged over its last beats, with the lift time behind the amplitude reading. • Readings in plain words — "gains about a minute every 19 days" — and a nod when a reading lands within chronometer limits. • On this day in horology: the Moon landing, the first quartz watch, the Trieste dive and more appear on their anniversaries, with a note when your own watch is part of the story. Your watches get anniversaries too. • A fresh look throughout: watch avatars in History, clearer trend charts you can tap to inspect, an honest COSC assessment with a fast/slow position chart, comparisons with your previous measurement, a moon-phase readout on the Clock, and a redesigned share card that shows your real trace. And a few things to discover. • Watch photos now sit neatly in their frames in your collection and on each watch's page, and caliber pages show the year each movement was introduced. • The audio sensitivity setting is gone — Tickscope now adapts to each watch on its own.