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> considering that the watch is practically useless without a connected phone It can still tell you the time. Its primary function is a watch.

• mcsniff 2mo ago
  It will drift, significantly, without being connected to a device to set the time.
  • roryirvine 2mo ago
    ...by, at most, a minute or so each year. At least, that's what quartz watches could manage in the early 90s, as does the clock in my microwave oven from the early 2000s. Why would a modern disconnected device would be any worse?
    • raffael_de 2mo ago
      I'd suspect that a watch like the Pebble isn't syncing time with a Quartz crystal but by counting processor ticks - that would be a lot less precise in the long run.
      • roryirvine 2mo ago
        Oh, yes, I hadn't considered that. You're probably right - it is, after all, being sold as a tech toy rather than a timepiece.