Quartz

[ceagle]

For the last couple of months, I've been conducting a fairly simple test. I found an amazing deal recently, one quartz watch and a digital watch, together for $15! (so I bought four)..
And, I've been keeping tabs on them to see how they fare... because, alas, digital doesn't = accurate.

I used to think "digital, how could it NOT be accurate?", but I've seen so many digital time apparatus phail at being accurate.... VCRs, watches, phones, car clocks, etc...

Quartz though... now THAT is supposed to be accurate. Or at least much closer to it.
I think the standard is that they shouldn't veer off more than a minute a year? Pretty good, but I was hoping to split the difference and find one that is close to dead-on some time. And if anything, I prefer a timepiece that runs a bit fast, rather than slow.

The report so far is: after almost three months, Quartz watch #1 is 7 seconds slow, Quartz watch #2 is 5 seconds slow, digital watch (#3) is 15 seconds slow, and digital watch (#4) is 40 seconds fast.

;P

Drat.

None of them are really all that spot-on, but *sigh* I guess they aren't too bad.

Comments

[aldi.livejournal.com]

To me, Quartz is synonymous of speed-locked turntables. Sadly, of all the turntables I collected over the years, only one is Quartz-controled and it's a belt-driven one!

The only thing in our home that keeps time accurately is the clock on my two Sony SL-HF860D super beta hi-fi VCRs, that went for $1000 each in 1988. When I change the time on them twice a year, they're always pretty close to the real TV time!
http://www.betamaxcollectors.com/sonysuperbetamaxmodelsl-hf860d.html

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Wow... the buttons and panels look a lot like my http://www.betamaxcollectors.com/sonysuperbetamaxmodelsl-hf900.html ....I wonder if yours is the Canadian version?

[aldi.livejournal.com]

I see the resemblance, but no. Mine aren't a Canadian model, just a different model from a few years later. :-)

[aldi.livejournal.com]

BTW in the link I provided, they show the wrong remote. Here's mine; RMT-160:
http://betamax.hostzi.com/srb1/RMT160.jpg

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the additional info, me friend! *snug!*