When I subscribed to Time Nuts several years ago I felt a little self-concise and purchased a Citizen WWV watch and in all seriousness it has run flawlessly. But I quickly learned that to really fit in I would need a tourbillon movement watch or the TVB mondo wrist watch demonstrated by a professional hand model in the Leapsecond site.
Thomas Knox > Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:20:14 +0200 > From: att...@kinali.ch > To: n1...@alum.dartmouth.org; time-nuts@febo.com > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Best reason > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:42:39 -0400 > David McGaw <n1...@alum.dartmouth.org> wrote: > > > Mechanical wristwatches are capable of good precision. I have an > > inexpensive 40-year old Caravelle (Bulova) that with reasonable > > adjustment can still keep to a few seconds per day. I never have > > considered quartz watches to be better unless they can be adjusted, > > which most cannot. > > Modern quarz watches use TCXOs and are calibrated. At least my > Tissot keeps time to somewhere around 10-20s/half year. > > Attila Kinali > > -- > Why does it take years to find the answers to > the questions one should have asked long ago? > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
