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Old 03-02-17, 20:17
Chris Suslowicz Chris Suslowicz is offline
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Mine both have nickle cases and plastic holders.
I wonder how often they would synchronize them?
From memory there would be a time broadcast from headquarters at 2100 every day.

(My father commented that the 'issue' pocket watch did not keep very good time and as a result he always used his own.)

"Office" watches were not always adjusted to the broadcast time, but any difference would be noted and a record kept for manual correction (to avoid disturbing the watch, which might cause the rate of drift to change).

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Old 04-02-17, 03:01
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No atomic clocks to go by back then!
I figured they'd have to be set daily.
The conditions under which they were used were less than ideal after all.
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Old 04-02-17, 09:00
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I don't know about the army but the navy broadcast a continuous time signal. On the enclosed chart from one of my US Navy sets you can see the station "time tick" on the right side. There is one digit missing from the frequency as it is in the 12 Mc range.
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Old 04-02-17, 17:07
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From my collection
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hello
I have only one of this pocket clock on my R109
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