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how well does it keep the time?
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Anal retentive is the correct term for what many confuse with OCD tendencies. It isn't meant to be an insult or a profanity.
The most accurate currently available Quartz watches use Thermocompensated movements these are only found on expensive high end watches such as Breitling and are usually certified to 20 seconds a year so your $20 Casio ain't gonna come close to this type of accuracy
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watch will probably be bang on after a few days of not being synced which is good enough
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watch will probably be bang on after a few days of not being synced which is good enough
The most accurate currently available Quartz watches use Thermocompensated movements these are only found on expensive high end watches such as Breitling and are usually certified to 20 seconds a year so your $20 Casio ain't gonna come close to this type of accuracy
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20 seconds a year? Lol!!!
Did you mean to say milliseconds???? That's not even vaguely accurate.
I built a digital clock in high school with a 555 timer and a two cent resistor that was more accurate than that. If you believe that the MOST accurate watches in the world lose 20 seconds a year, I'd love to see the link.
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This is a legitimate question (and it's been asked before).
For short answer, I'll just point you at this blog from the Apple Watch Camp:
How Apple Watch achieves its timekeeping accuracy
As the author notes, iPhones and iPads can be off up to 10 seconds a day if they're unable to sync up with a time source, although usually it's under a couple of seconds.
So let's say you went on a camping trip in the woods without your phone, but you did bring a charging source for your Watch. With luck, even after a couple of weeks, you'd still be less than a half minute off.
Of course, as someone else pointed out, the moment your watch goes dead, then without its host phone to sync to, you're out of luck even if you charge it again. It's going to reset itself to something silly like 1970 and it's useless at that point.
(This is why some prefer a simpler watch+notifications combo like the Martian Notifier. Its quartz clock runs on its own battery for two years, so the watch part still works even though the notifications/voice side dies after five days.)
Thanks for the info.
Dang.... I'm incredulous! I'm sooooo grateful Apple Watch is NOT mechanical.