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 oxide cells, they
can, but who will do it for you? There are no service centers left, and only
a handful of watchmakers that will work on them.
I much prefer automatic watches. If I cannot have an automatic, I would then
prefer a quartz watch... most of the modern quartz watches will go 5 years on
a cell, and keep way better time than the Accutron ever did, and are silent when
you place them on your bedstand.
-Chuck Harris
William H. Fite wrote:
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<[email protected]> 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 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
fraction of a second and/or the index wheel to advance two notches per
impulse rather than one.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Hal Murray<[email protected]>wrote:
IThis reminds me of the story (from time-nuts) of how to calibrate a
pocket
watch. The recipe was roughly:
Take watch to shop.
Shop puts watch in stable environment.
Shop adjusts watch to tick corectly.
Shop gives watch to customer.
Customer uses watch as "normal" for a week.
Customer brings watch back to shop.
Shop mis-adjusts watch to match customers usage patterns.
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