Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Saturday, March 15. 2025

Repairing a chronometer


What's the difference between a chronometer and a watch?


I am a Timex guy, but I appreciate these crazy expensive machines. This guy started as a hobby. Need good eyes.Kids do not use watches anymore.


Reminder: No watch is waterproof.




Posted by Bird Dog at 13:28 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

I started wearing a watch again as a way to have one less reason to look at my phone. Now I never use the phone to check the time.

Even if I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to wear something that expensive. I'm too reckless. I bang my watch on door jams and other things all the time.
#1 jack walter on 2025-03-16 08:34 (Reply)
Fascinating. I am astounded by the precision of all those tiny wheels and screws.
#2 steve walsh on 2025-03-16 09:32 (Reply)
That chronometer versus a watch piece is one badly written article.

For example: "You would be able to start the chronograph when the race begins, and then stop one of the chronograph hands at the first lap, and the second at the next." No indication is given about what to do if the race is longer than two laps.

"The movements are put to extreme temperatures from around 46 degrees Fahrenheit to 100 degrees and set at different positions." Who considers 46 degrees F to be an extreme temperature? What are the different positions? No clue.

Ugh.
#3 RJP on 2025-03-16 21:56 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.
BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.