Hi

The typical watch crystal has a parabolic temperature coefficient with it's 
peak near 90F. The slope (and difficulty of correction) goes up as you move 
away from the peak. A simple drop / add one cycle (or do nothing) in a second 
approach would be adequate to do all the steering needed. 

Bob

On Aug 30, 2012, at 12:35 AM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
>> Well, basically the temperature of a wrist watch is very constant at around
>> 90F.  That and a table lookup that gives an adjustment for number of cycles
>> per tick vs temperature. 
> 
> My introduction to this area was roughly a comment like that.
> 
> The other half of the comment was that watches keep (much) less-good time if 
> you park them on the night stand while you are sleeping.
> 
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