Many decades ago when digital displays and "quartz" clocks were a novelty, I built a table clock and presented it to my father a watch nut. He regularly teased me that my "digital" clock was slow or fast compared to his 25 year old Omega that he bought when I was born!
>When you look at what a very good pure mechanical watch can do it's pretty >impressive. Quartz was out for quite a while before it could run anywhere as >good as a top notch mechanical. They actually have standardized (had?) yearly >testing of watch accuracy. The actual ran for a number months at various >temperatures and orientations. The term "certified chronometer" apparently has >meaning in Swiss law. > >Bob -- Raj, VU2ZAP Bangalore, India. _______________________________________________ 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.
