On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Michael Poulos wrote: > We all enjoy good accurate time keeping. :) What is your favorite watch? My > watch (so far) is a Casio WaveCeptor digital watch that gets the WWVB signal > and calibrates itself that I bought for $50 at a WalMart - the price of one > Chicago parking ticket. Less than half a second off at any time, it is plenty > accurate. The one exact drawback is that during night driving, you can't read > it when you need to check the time. The lesser drawback is that it is not > dressy. > > A nice "dressy" radio controlled watch would be that Citizen EcoDrive watch > shown on those adverts during football games. If it has glow in the dark > hands and 5 minute markers it would be great if expensive. So, let's have it > with the best watch for a time nut! (not including Tom van Baak's REAL > "atomic watch")
I would suggest that the best watch for a time-nut is either the long out of production Synchronar, or one of the NIXIE tube watches that are presently being made (by list members, I think). Unlike most quartz watches that utilize a 32768 Hz crystal, the Synchronar operates up around 700 kHz. One of the built in functions is the ability to adjust the divider in steps of 8 seconds per year to fine tune the timing. Mine has consistently been within 4 seconds over the course of a year for the last 20ish years (since the third year I had it, as I spent the first two adjusting it). Sadly, they are rather uncommon and expensive when you find one...so much so that I rarely wear mine. In its stead, a YES (by Wild Seed) is my usual watch. Not terribly accurate (it runs a good 5-10 seconds per month fast), but it does a wonderful job of displaying sunrise, sunset, moon rise, moon set, and moon phase. I've accepted the somewhat reduced accuracy for that capability. Would I be expelled from the club if I admitted my dress watch was a Waltham pocket watch made in 1864 (not a typo), and that I was very happy with its 5-10 second per day accuracy? I should be quite pleased if I work as well when I'm 156 years old. Tom Frank _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
