NavList:
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From: Brad Morris
Date: 2013 Aug 16, 11:41 -0400
For Gary
If you use an Android device, you may find
"Sidereal Clock" by BSB Solutions
To be useful.
It displays sidereal time AND allows you to freeze that time. Another tap and it catches up to current time, just like a rattrapante complication.
You may appreciate the cost of this too. Its free!
Brad
Randy-
Aside from the highly subjective issue of looks, the main design advantage of a watch having hands is that does allow one to incorporate a timing/countdown bezel. It’s a matter of convenience: it’s much quicker to set a bezel than to switch modes and program a digital timer, all while trying to fly the plane or keep from going overboard on a boat. I use the countdown bezel a lot - for all sorts of things - so it’s nice to have it be very easy to set.
However, I completely agree about digital accuracy. The Citizen is a hybrid, so it has a digital stop watch, along with the analog hands. So, like you, all my sightings are based on a digital readout. My only complaint is that I wish they made the numbers in the readout tad bigger, or my eyes a lot sharper.
Paul Dolkas
From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Randall Morrow
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:08 PM
To: paul{at}dolkas.net
Subject: [NavList] Re: The ultimate navigation watch?
My ideal navigation watch would be digital rather than analog at any price. The eye/mind can mure easily err with reading the analog watch, or so my experience has shown me. Most of my sights are taken ashore so I think the digital readout would be even more benficial at sea. Movement,spray, cramped positions and the need to hold on all would make distractions that may misslead the eye. The watch face has numbers every 5 seconds and in between it's a judgement call. My earliest sights were with analog and I often had to re-do the sights when my eye missed the time. Give me a digital readout every time.
Randy
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