[time-nuts] Best reason

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:42:39 -0400
David McGaw <n1hac at Alum.Dartmouth.ORG> wrote:

> Mechanical wristwatches are capable of good precision.  I have an 
> inexpensive 40-year old Caravelle (Bulova) that with reasonable 
> adjustment can still keep to a few seconds per day.  I never have 
> considered quartz watches to be better unless they can be adjusted, 
> which most cannot.

Modern quarz watches use TCXOs and are calibrated. At least my
Tissot keeps time to somewhere around 10-20s/half year.

			Attila Kinali

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