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Default DIY - a step too far

On Thursday, 22 September 2016 21:23:56 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 22/09/2016 20:46, Simon Mason wrote:
On Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:25:11 UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:


£20000 for a radio controlled watch that loses its transmitter update
once you get 1000 km from Mainflingen?

What a load of cobblers - mine will still be accurate in Antarctica.

It only uses the radio for checks - it's an atomic clock.


So is mine - it is linked by radio signals to the Cs/Rb atomic clocks on the Navstar satellites. £1300 is very cheap technology.


So is mine it was a very expensive £27 from aldi.
Came with a heart rate monitor and does GPS logging too.


I got one of those in 2006 - it fell to bits in 2008.