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From: Alan S
Date: 2012 Feb 9, 13:31 -0800
Magnus:
I had earlier mentioned the Casio brand G-Shock "Atomic Watch". The one I have, my second, the band failed on #1, and Casio replaced the watch, guess that that was a cheaper alternative compared to replacing bands.
In any event, re its' accuracy, when I check it against Naval Observatory/NIST Time, a 2 person job the way I do it, one calling "mark" respecting the dynamic time tic, the other reading the watch, no differece is detrected, which I take to indicate that the Casio watch is dead on.
As to price, that may have changed over several years, but when I bought the thing on Amazon.com, I paid $50-55, shipped free.
I don't think that such navigation problems as I have had, shooting the sun, moon, planets or stars standing on the beach have involved errors in time. Actual sextant shots, and hitting the wrong key on my calculator, and or transposing numbers read from the NA are a whole different story though, the possibilities of "operator error" being endless.
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