[time-nuts] Us Time Nuts and... Wrist Watches.

Steve Rooke sar10538 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 26 09:16:25 UTC 2010


On 26/12/2010, Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/12/2010, shalimr9 at gmail.com <shalimr9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My favorite watches all use the 7T32 calibre from Seiko. I have 4 at the
>> moment. This calibre is quite accurate enough (the drift is minimum,
>> considering this quartz analog has to be readjusted every 2 months anyway
>> (calendar is 31 days/month). It has a second hand, calendar, a very
>> convenient alarm and also stopwatch functions, in a very elegant package.
>> It
>> is the only quartz analog watch I know that has 3 buttons and two crowns,
>> so
>> the user interface is quite friendly.
>> I have never actually measured the drift rate, but it would be
>> interesting
>> to compare the four and see how well they track each others.
>
> My Seiko uses the 7T34 calibre and was 3 seconds slow in it's first
> year some 25 years ago. I don't have an exact current figure but it's
> running 8 seconds slow after having a battery replaced about a year
> ago. Now you have prompted me I will set it and record the drift
> accurately.

Although, of course, I would have changed the time on it back in
October (duh!) when we went to NZ Summer Time down here so that 8
seconds may be the drift in the last 2 months.

Steve

> What's more it has a slide rule bezel and I'm sure I'm not the only
> time-nut who is into slide rules.
>
> Steve
>
>> Didier KO4BB
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Poulos <poulosmd at gmail.com>
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>> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:00:53
>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency
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>> 	<time-nuts at febo.com>
>> Subject: [time-nuts] Us Time Nuts and... Wrist Watches.
>>
>> We all enjoy good accurate time keeping. :) What is your favorite watch?
>> My watch (so far) is a Casio WaveCeptor digital watch that gets the WWVB
>> signal and calibrates itself that I bought for $50 at a WalMart - the
>> price of one Chicago parking ticket. Less than half a second off at any
>> time, it is plenty accurate. The one exact drawback is that during night
>> driving, you can't read it when you need to check the time. The lesser
>> drawback is that it is not dressy.
>>
>> A nice "dressy" radio controlled watch would be that Citizen EcoDrive
>> watch shown on those adverts during football games. If it has glow in
>> the dark hands and 5 minute markers it would be great if expensive. So,
>> let's have it with the best watch for a time nut! (not including Tom van
>> Baak's REAL "atomic watch")
>>
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>
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> Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
> The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
> - Einstein
>


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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
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