[time-nuts] Best reason
David McGaw
n1hac at Alum.Dartmouth.ORG
Wed Mar 28 17:42:39 UTC 2012
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.
David
On 3/28/12 1:08 PM, iovane at inwind.it wrote:
> batchelormr at yahoo.com wrote
>
>> Well the best reason is that by our social convention it makes people
> comfortable.
>> But that reason does have much logic behind it.
> One month ago a 38-year old wristwatch resurfaced from a junk box and I
> decided to return to it at least temporarily. It drifts some 30 seconds per
> day, but sincerely I don't feel any particular discomfort with it.
> Antonio I8IOV
>
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