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Gary wrote-

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| I use my Torgoen T5 watch. It gains four second a year. It has the
| normal watch hands plus a separately settable 24 hour hand and a 24 hour
| clock face. You can reset the 24 hour hand without affecting the setting
| of the other hands, the watch keeps running while resetting the 24 hour
| hand so doesn't lose its accuracy. I normally keep the watch set to zone
| time and the 24 hour hand set to Zulu. If traveling for just a few days
| I will leave the watch set to my home zone and set the 24 hour time to
| the zone in which I am traveling. On my recent voyage across the
| Atlantic, since I would be crossing many zones and doing celnav, I set
| the watch to Zulu and then adjusted the 24 hour hand to the zone times
| being kept on board since I could make these adjustments without losing
| Zulu time on the other hands. Here is a picture of the watch:
|
| http://www.topflightwatches.com/torgoen/t5/t05101.html

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Thank you for that information, Gary. That seems a really sensible
arrangement of hands, for the likes of us.

Do you happen to know that same design exists in cheaper watches, for thise
of us for whom the very-best is more than good enough?

George.contact George Huxtable, at  george@hux.me.uk
or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.


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