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George, many digital watches (for example the Timex Indiglo Ironman)
keep two time zones and are not expensive. The Indiglos also light up
and store lap times which can be used to store the times of the
sextant shots.


http://shopping.yahoo.com/s:Watches:4168-Brand=Timex:4518-Watch%20Features=Indiglo
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On Nov 13, 4:41�am, "George Huxtable"  wrote:
> Gary wrote-
>
> |
> | I use my Torgoen T5 watch. It gains four second a year. It has the
> | normal watch hands plus a separately settable 24 hour hand and a 24 hour
> | clock face. You can reset the 24 hour hand without affecting the setting
> | of the other hands, the watch keeps running while resetting the 24 hour
> | hand so doesn't lose its accuracy. I normally keep the watch set to zone
> | time and the 24 hour hand set to Zulu. If traveling for just a few days
> | I will leave the watch set to my home zone and set the 24 hour time to
> | the zone in which I am traveling. On my recent voyage across the
> | Atlantic, since I would be crossing many zones and doing celnav, I set
> | the watch to Zulu and then adjusted the 24 hour hand to the zone times
> | being kept on board since I could make these adjustments without losing
> | Zulu time on the other hands. Here is a picture of the watch:
> |
> |http://www.topflightwatches.com/torgoen/t5/t05101.html
>
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>
> Thank you for that information, Gary. That seems a really sensible
> arrangement of hands, for the likes of us.
>
> Do you happen to know that same design exists in cheaper watches, for thise
> of us for whom the very-best is more than good enough?
>
> George.contact George Huxtable, at �geo...@hux.me.uk
> or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
> or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
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