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It's worth pointing out that basically every quartz watch ever is vastly more accurate than any watch that was ever certified as railroad grade.
by CydeWeys 7y ago
It's worth pointing out that basically every quartz watch ever is vastly more accurate than any watch that was ever certified as railroad grade.
- CalChris 7y agoThe first quartz watch wasn't unveiled until 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock A high accuracy quartz watch is accurate to 10 seconds per year. https://www.watchtime.com/featured/high-accuracy-quartz-guide-longines-vhp-breitling-bulova-citizen-chronomaster-omega-grand-seiko-9f/ https://www.watchtime.com/featured/high-accuracy-quartz-guid... However, railroad standard was 4 seconds daily. That means that if a high accuracy quartz watch is never checked it may fail the standard within a year. However, a less accurate railroad chronometer will always be checked because it is less accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_chronometer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_chronometer
- Phillipharryt 7y agoThis is some of the strangest logic ever. It will be more accurate because it's less accurate and will be checked more often? Bonkers
- wbl 7y agoIf you get the Allen intercept right the quartz will be more accurate.
- john_moscow 7y agoUnless you cock up the mechanical part. I have recently bought a bunch of cheap wall clocks for the house, thinking you cannot mess up a quartz resonator, right? Turns out, you can by improperly sizing electrical vs. mechanical counterparts. So one of the clocks is late by about 5 minutes per month, and the other one randomly stops, but only when hung on the wall. Works like clockwork for the past 4 months or so since I dumped it in the recycling pile. I guess, the impulses keep coming as you would expect them, just not all of them end up moving the hands.