Railroad Grade Pocket Watches
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Railroad Grade Pocket Watches
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#2Ad for some watch company.
Wikipedia article.[1]
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#3Ad for some watch company. Wikipedia article.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_chronometer
Most posts on here are ads, this one was 90% informative and I enjoyed the read and pictures that went with it, some things that the wiki article is missing.
Re: Railroad Grade Pocket Watches
#4Ad for some watch company. Wikipedia article.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_chronometer
Either way, I found it a good read.
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#5Ad for some watch company. Wikipedia article.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_chronometer
They've found a "clever" way to put a pocket watch into a relatively cheap machined bronze case to go on your wrist (hello huge watch) and sell it for over 5x the market value of said movements.
Yuck.
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#6Ad for some watch company. Wikipedia article.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_chronometer
Most posts on here are ads, this one was 90% informative and I enjoyed the read and pictures that went with it, some things that the wiki article is missing.
Just a glance at the homepage would tell you this is nonsense.
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#7>Some of the highest end railroad watches featured what was referred to as an up-down wind indicator. This is called a power reserve indicator on modern watches, and it visually communicates how much wind remains in the watch on a sub-dial at 12 O’clock.
I now want this as a battery life indicator on a smart watch.
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#8It's worth pointing out that basically every quartz watch ever is vastly more accurate than any watch that was ever certified as railroad grade.
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#9It's worth pointing out that basically every quartz watch ever is vastly more accurate than any watch that was ever certified as railroad grade.
The first quartz watch wasn't unveiled until 1969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock
A high accuracy quartz watch is accurate to 10 seconds per year.
https://www.watchtime.com/featured/high-accuracy-quartz-guid...
However, railroad standard was 4 seconds daily. That means that if a high accuracy quartz watch is never checked it may fail the standard within a year. However, a less accurate railroad chronometer will always be checked because it is less accurate.
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#10It's worth pointing out that basically every quartz watch ever is vastly more accurate than any watch that was ever certified as railroad grade.
Unless you cock up the mechanical part. I have recently bought a bunch of cheap wall clocks for the house, thinking you cannot mess up a quartz resonator, right? Turns out, you can by improperly sizing electrical vs. mechanical counterparts. So one of the clocks is late by about 5 minutes per month, and the other one randomly stops, but only when hung on the wall. Works like clockwork for the past 4 months or so since I dumped it in the recycling pile. I guess, the impulses keep coming as you would expect them, just not all of them end up moving the hands.