Everyone in this conflict has an interest, so to quote John Griffin,
You pays your money and takes your choice.
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In fact, that was exactly what Accutron watch technicians were taught to
do. They deliberately set the watches to run slow (~4 seconds per day, I
think, but someone may correct me on that) because, when worn, slight bumps
and jars would stimulate the tuning fork to vibrate slightly faster for a
BTW, how many of us have running Accutrons? I surely can't be the only one.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:56 AM, William H. Fite omni...@gmail.com wrote:
In fact, that was exactly what Accutron watch technicians were taught to
do. They deliberately set the watches to run slow (~4 seconds per
There are plenty of Accutrons out there, but I think most owners have long since
relegated theirs to drawer duty. The short battery life (9 months), loud hum,
lack of mercury cells, and poor performance on silver oxide cells did them in.
It isn't that they cannot be adjusted to work with silver
Seemed like a time-nuts-y sort of thing:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-turan-notebook-clock-20110708,0,4924534.story
This is how The Clock works. In every city it plays, the screenings
are synchronized to local time. At least once in every minute, there is
a shot of a
I still have a number of these left. The cost is GBP75 including PP to
anywhere in the world (GBP70 for UK customers).
For more details please goto http://www.perdrix.co.uk and follow the links
Please reply OFF LIST mailto:david.partri...@perdrix.co.uk
Regards,
David Partridge
Oh, Chuck! You have no soul. [?] People collect and use Accutrons for the
same reason that people collect and use manual Omega Speedmaster
Professionals. And the same reason that some of us keep old shipboard
chronometers (mine was built by Thomas Bassnet a little over 250 years ago)
and other
As a matter of curiosity... Am I the only time nut that does not wear a
wrist watch? Or... perhaps I'm not a true time nut... :)
Regards,
Javier
El 08/07/2011 16:46, William H. Fite escribió:
Oh, Chuck! You have no soul. [?] People collect and use Accutrons for the
same reason that people
I haven't worn a wristwatch in maybe 30 years. I generally use my cellphone
or whatever timepiece that's handy. Or, I just guess. I don't wear my
wedding ring either. Jewelry of any kind bothers me.
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I see we are twin souls. Exactly the same :)
Regards,
Javier
El 08/07/2011 17:19, John Green escribió:
I haven't worn a wristwatch in maybe 30 years. I generally use my cellphone
or whatever timepiece that's handy. Or, I just guess. I don't wear my
wedding ring either. Jewelry of any kind
I normally don't. Use to but one day it stopped working and never got
it repaired.
But then I have 20+ clocks at home and a Nixie(R) clock on my desk at work.
The only one I wear now on special events is a retirement gift to my grandfather
when he retired in the the late 60's.
How may factory
Hi Bill,
You obviously don't know me! I've been an amateur watchmaker for a lot
of years, and I have serviced just about anything that ticks. My
collection of clocks and watches, though modest compared to most collectors,
is certainly eclectic.
My observations about Accutrons are accurate.
I worked at one time for an employer who give 35-year retirees a Rolex.
That was about 20 years ago but I think they still do it.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Pete Lancashire p...@petelancashire.comwrote:
I normally don't. Use to but one day it stopped working and never got
it repaired.
While I do sometimes wear a wristwatch, I find I
normally don't. I usually use a stand alone
clock of some sort, or the time display on my
phone.
As for Time Nut relevance, it's still true that
you can get much better accuracy and precision
for a given cost in a clock that most people
Actually, that still happens quite a lot. A nice looking, but not high
end gold plated watch can be had very cheaply these days. I get catalogs
addressed to my business that have engraved gold retirement watches anywhere
from $30 to thousands. It is mostly just symbolic... in *my*
I prefer an inexpensive pocket watch, which I carry everyday, everywhere. As
with John Harrison, I use it to carry time from one good clock to another. I
depend on its short term stability rather than its long term accuracy.
John WA4WDL
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I bow to your expertise, Chuck. I thought the tone of year earlier post was
a bit dismissive, given the significant role that the Accutron played in
early aerospace history.
Not everyone agrees with you concerning the Ag2O cells. I have been
collecting Accutrons since I bought my first one in
Javier wrote:
As a matter of curiosity... Am I the only time nut that does not
wear a wrist watch?
Nope. And it's not because I get the time from a cell phone or PDA
-- I don't carry those, either.
I very occasionally (once or twice a year) wear one of my pocket
watches. Almost never a
I thouth as well that it was just a cheapie, but when I got it I took
it to get it cleaned and to replace the crystal. My watch/clock guy
was quite surprised. It was not gold plated but 14ct gold, cheapies
where 10ct or plated.
I don't have the info with me but he told me it was not your usual
I also hate wearing any kind of jewelry - watchbands and rings seem
to cut off circulation, even when sized right. A few years ago I
accidentally wrecked the nice Seiko that my wife gave me. Since then
I have used cheap no-brand watches attached to my 30 year old Speidel
Twistoflex band - the
I'm sitting in the other camp - have many watches, but wear my favourite - a
Seiko Chrono all the time - never take it off. Hot baths, showers, sea etc.
Never let me down (yet). Accurate to I guess not what, but I just love it.
Sorry
Rob K
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Bravo, Rob. I thought I was the lone voice crying in the wilderness in
support of watches.
My beater is an Omega Seamaster that goes everywhere and does everything
all the time. My others tend to sit in their rocker boxes and seldom get
worn.
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Rob Kimberley
Being in broadcast I need to know what time it is. I wear a wrist
watch with real hands on it so I can tell what time it is. For a
wrist watch, I personally don't care for a digital readout. I grew
up with a wrist watch that had real hands and I learned to tell time
and how much time I had
I too love wearing a wrist watch Since I am always working with machines,
I tend to scar my watches up quite a bit... therefor I tend to wear cheap
watches... my current favorite is a Russian automatic dive watch that I picked
up on ebay for $60.
I only wear automatic winding mechanical
Hi Pete,
I wasn't implying that it was a cheapie... though most of the more expensive
watches are at least 21J... A solid gold case will bring the price up pdq!
I was just saying that a lot of companies are giving gold watches to any
employee that hangs on long enough to retire. The cost of
On 7/8/2011 7:57 AM, Javier Herrero wrote:
As a matter of curiosity... Am I the only time nut that does not wear
a wrist watch? Or... perhaps I'm not a true time nut... :)
Regards,
Javier
He he. Me too. Back when I used to wear a wrist watch, I found I would
neurotically keep glancing at
I fall into this category too. I used to wear an Avocet altimeter watch all
the time, but once the last of the three I had could no longer be fixed, I just
kind of gave up. I don't usually carry a cellphone either. I keep thinking I
should get a watch for those occations when I might
i know you didnt ... it was quite the surprise. But then Elder Packing
was not your modern company. Everyone from the janitor up had a full
pension. Mr. Elder sold out to a maga-corp. Rest of the story is text book.
-pete
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Chuck Harris cfhar...@erols.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:11:34AM -0700, Burt I. Weiner wrote:
Being in broadcast I need to know what time it is. I wear a wrist
watch with real hands on it so I can tell what time it is. For a
wrist watch, I personally don't care for a digital readout. I grew
up with a wrist watch that
I've actually found the separate mechanical and digital displays quite
useful. I spent a lot of time on science vessels and would set one to
science time (GMT) and the other to what ever timezone we happened
to be adhering to for daily operations, which can vary quite a bit
when you are working
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 08:12:42PM -0400, brent evers wrote:
I've actually found the separate mechanical and digital displays quite
useful. I spent a lot of time on science vessels and would set one to
science time (GMT) and the other to what ever timezone we happened
to be adhering to for
Here's where I am with the replacement microcontroller subboard for the
fluke.l iCruze display.
I used my bench power supply to slowly bring up the voltage on the
replacement microcontroller subboard without it being installed on the
display motherboard. The current limiting was set
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