My watch is seven minutes slow/fast.

[Freeguy]

How many ways would exist meaning the same as:

My watch is seven minutes slow/fast.
(Spoken usages, I mean.)

 

[Rover_KE]

My watch gains/loses seven minutes.

That is not correct, Matthew. That tells us what your watch gradually does over a period of time - say a day.

'My watch is seven minutes fast' means that it is showing a time which is seven minutes ahead of the actual time.

Freeguy, I don't know how many different ways there are to say this, but they will all be wordier and less elegant than this just about perfect sentence.

 

[Tdol]

My watch is seven minutes behind.

 

[Winwin2011]

My watch is seven minutes behind.

Is it possible to say 'My watch is seven minutes slow'?

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Not a teacher nor a native speaker.
As far as I know (and heard) we normally say "My watch is five minutes ahead/behind". Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

 

[emsr2d2]

In BrE, we use "My watch is five minutes slow/fast".

 

[MikeNewYork]

In AmE also.