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Re: mechanical chronometers
From: Joel McNamara
Date: 2006 May 17, 10:35 -0500
Another vote for the Casio Waveceptor watches (if you're in North America
and are within range of the time signals). The solar models are especially
useful in not having to worry about batteries.
Costco had older model G-Shock solar Waveceptors in the $30 price range
last time I was there.
Joel
On Tue, 16 May 2006 gregr_ingest@yahoo.com wrote:
> You can eliminate even that layer of "annoyance" by getting one of
> Casio's Waveceptor models (it has a built-in receiver that syncs the
> watch to NIST/WWV time signals daily ). Mine's served me well for
> several years, seems like I paid ~$90 when I bought it.
>
> An added benefit is the "Time Memo" function - press that button from
> the Timekeeping mode and the date and time is automatically stored (I
> think it holds about 30 of them, more than enough for a series of
> celestial sights). And with that you don't even have to remember what
> time you started the stopwatch from, either. :-)
>
> --
> GregR
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From: Joel McNamara
Date: 2006 May 17, 10:35 -0500
Another vote for the Casio Waveceptor watches (if you're in North America
and are within range of the time signals). The solar models are especially
useful in not having to worry about batteries.
Costco had older model G-Shock solar Waveceptors in the $30 price range
last time I was there.
Joel
On Tue, 16 May 2006 gregr_ingest@yahoo.com wrote:
> You can eliminate even that layer of "annoyance" by getting one of
> Casio's Waveceptor models (it has a built-in receiver that syncs the
> watch to NIST/WWV time signals daily ). Mine's served me well for
> several years, seems like I paid ~$90 when I bought it.
>
> An added benefit is the "Time Memo" function - press that button from
> the Timekeeping mode and the date and time is automatically stored (I
> think it holds about 30 of them, more than enough for a series of
> celestial sights). And with that you don't even have to remember what
> time you started the stopwatch from, either. :-)
>
> --
> GregR
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