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I don't own a Limes watch, but I'm thinking of purchasing one in the future, and I ran across this interesting thread. I do have a couple of thoughts on this subject. . .
If you actually dissect the automobile analogy, and you do a little research, you will find it most appropriate. There are more variations in automobiles than you might realize, whether it be horsepower, braking power, paint quality, or interior quality. Often, two different reviews of the same automobile will produce different quantitative results. Of course, some of these differences can be attributed to climate and driver variations, but some cannot.
The argument is even stronger when you consider that automobiles are produced now largely by computer controlled robots, in contrast to mechanical watches like those made under the Limes name, which are made and finished largely by hand.
Now, if you consider that a Limes Nightflight is roughly $300, it must seem to you a bargain. If you want a professional watchmaker to perform a regulation on your watch, a process that I imagine is fairly time-consuming and labor-intensive, you have to expect to pay more for that. I imagine the labor of a highly skilled watchmaker is not cheap, $50-100 per hour at the very least.
The process of regulating a watch can be likened to the process of "blueprinting" a high-performance engine. Blueprinting and putting an engine on a dyno takes many hours of labor, and thus, is not done under normal manufacturing circumstances. However, if you want your $10,000 Porsche blueprinted, you are going to have to shell out more for it. Ditto for your $300 Limes.
That being said, people who buy mechanical watches don't really buy them for accuracy, though their accuracy is something to be marvelled at considering the amount of human involvement in the manufacturing process. People who buy mechanical watches do so for diverse reasons. I like them because I like to have a watch that doesn't need a battery, and because I like to be different from everyone else (which is why I'm more likely to buy a Limes than a Tag-Heuer).
When I get concerned about accuracy, I usually synchronize my computer with the government's atomic time server in Colorado; and then I try my best to synchronize my watch with my computer, but I am only human.
