[time-nuts] Chronometer contest sponsored by IEEE Spectrum

[Chuck Harris]

Hi Max,

I haven't seen a quartz watch with a trimmer capacitor
in something like 20 years.

What they do now days is use a microprocessor with flash ram, and
the timing machine reprograms the microprocessor's second counter
to trip at the right time.

-Chuck Harris (amateur watchmaker)

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.