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There have been mass-produced don't-need-setting clocks for just under a hundred years now, the first Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos clock, https://atmos-atelier.de/en/
by pseudohadamard 3mo ago
There have been mass-produced don't-need-setting clocks for just under a hundred years now, the first Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos clock, https://atmos-atelier.de/en/atmos-uhr/ https://atmos-atelier.de/en/atmos-uhr/, being produced in 1928. You don't wind them up, you move a lever across to unlock them and then they keep running by themselves. The du Millénaire model won't need resetting until 3000AD, although perhaps that range may be a tiny bit optimistic.
- c22 3mo agoHow does it handle DST?
- ghostly_s 3mo agoThese aren't even self-setting, let alone self-adjusting. They are merely self-winding.
- defrost 3mo agoIn fairness "merely self-winding" is quite the existential ambition for some. * http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/mouse.html http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/mouse.html
- PunchyHamster 3mo agoWhat are you talking about, those will drift out of accuracy in a month "setting the clock" means adjusting time, not powering
- x86x87 3mo ago+/- 1 minute for month? holy smokes. does not qualify as self setting.
- TheOtherHobbes 3mo agoHooking that up to NTP would be quite a project.