[time-nuts] Need a Watch Recommendation

[William H. Fite]

For those of us whose time-nuttery extends into the fascinating world of
mechanical watches and clocks, the kind of accuracy usually discussed here
is not only impossible but essentially irrelevant (quelle horreur!). Our
interest is in the beauty and elegance of micromechanical devices that have
evolved over centuries. When I look down at one of the 25 or so
wristwatches in my small collection or up at the ten wall and floor clocks
in my home, I am seeing far more than merely the time. If all I want is the
time, I can always glance at my phone or go to the basement and fiddle with
one or another of the electronic devices there.

My oldest watch, a Waltham Model 57, has been running continuously for 150
years and still keeps time within a minute per day. Horology is about so
much more than crystals and resonances and Allen deviations.



On Monday, March 5, 2018, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp at arcor.de> wrote:

>
>
> Am 05.03.2018 um 14:01 schrieb Bob kb8tq:
>
>> If you want to stick with WWV, the Citizen “Ecco Drive” (solar) WWVB
>>
> ECO-Drive
>
>> watches are a pretty good option. Until I caved in to the wonders of
>> a cell phone on my wrist, I used them for many years. Nothing to fuss
>> with. No battery to die on you. Always keeps the right time. Available
>> in titanium. The only drawback is the limited number of styles they
>> make it in. You may or may not see one you like the looks of.
>>
>>
> I second that. In Europe, it synchronizes to DCF77 and in
> Japan to Fukushima, if that should be operational again.
>
> I wonder how they make it, that it lives from just a few
> photons now & then, year after year.
>
> Gerhard
>
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