[time-nuts] Chronometer contest sponsored by IEEE Spectrum

[Bruce Griffiths]

Max Robinson wrote:
> In my experience watches come from the factory adjusted to gain about 5 
> seconds a month.  The ones I have owned over the years seemed to be fairly 
> stable in that.  I have always wished there was a way for someone who is not 
> a watch maker to open up such a watch and turn the trimmer capacitor, there 
> has to be one, to set it right on.  Then it would be much easier to tell how 
> the crystal is aging.
>
> Regards.
>
> Max.  K 4 O D S.
>
>   
Not true, its no more difficult to measure the aging if the frequency is
slightly high or initially spot on.

Bruce