Hi Max, I haven't seen a quartz watch with a trimmer capacitor in something like 20 years.
What they do now days is use a microprocessor with flash ram, and the timing machine reprograms the microprocessor's second counter to trip at the right time. -Chuck Harris (amateur watchmaker) Max Robinson wrote: > In my experience watches come from the factory adjusted to gain about 5 > seconds a month. The ones I have owned over the years seemed to be fairly > stable in that. I have always wished there was a way for someone who is not > a watch maker to open up such a watch and turn the trimmer capacitor, there > has to be one, to set it right on. Then it would be much easier to tell how > the crystal is aging. > > Regards. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
