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The Zenith Grande Chronomaster XT "Moonage" I posted about last week, like all the Chronomasters, does not have a hacking feature. I like to sync my watches to the atomic clock regulated desk clock I have. I was "messing" with it when I disovered with the crown in the time change position, applying the slightest pressure on the crown in a reverse direction pauses the running seconds. I went ahead and "synced" it.

Now I'm wondering, was that stupid? If it's potentially dangerous I won't do it again.

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SHARKMAN

A lot of watches do this. I had a Blancpain that was exactly the same.

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-RJ

Cool! I'm anal about setting watches to atomic time and checking their accuracy.

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SHARKMAN

I am just starting to get anal about it. Which desk clock do you have?

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SA-Baton White Dial/ProII
Tissot Le Locle

Some LCD thing from Brookstone with day/month/year/temp/barometric pressure/smoke alarm/small fridge/shaving kit/fire extinguisher. I think that's it.

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SHARKMAN

Or you can just short cut this to your desktop, but it won't keep a sandwich cold http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java

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SHARKMAN

Brookstone??? And I thought you were a watch nut....Extremely sad!

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SA-Baton White Dial/ProII
Tissot Le Locle

Father's day gift and at the time my "nicest" watch was a $200 Luninox!

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SHARKMAN

Well lets both be on the hunt for a nice desk clock that is atomic. Do they make atomic analog desk clocks?

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SA-Baton White Dial/ProII
Tissot Le Locle

I bought one from Costco. its made by Oregon Scientific. Cost something like $15 and it projects the time onto any nearby surface (wall/ ceiling etc.) via led. One of my best value purchases to date. I check the time against time.gov and its spot on.

BTW, just realized that you asked about analog, not digital. Mines digital, but my comment remains

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-RJ

Thanks RJRJRJ

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SA-Baton White Dial/ProII
Tissot Le Locle

I have a stupid question. What the hell is an Atomic Clock? It sounds dangerous

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"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."

THE atomic clock is the official time for the dept of defense and esentially the rest of the US. It is maitaned by the US Naval Observatory and is a "clock" based upon the oscillation frequencies in the radio wave spectrum of cesium . It is where all these clocks and watches with radio receivers get the time info. Mine receives a radio waive signal at about 12:05AM to adjust the seconds.

And to answer an earlier post - they DO make analog clocks tied to the atomic clock.

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SHARKMAN

That was a better answer than I could have given: kudos sharman. I will have to do some hunting for an analog atomic. AHHH now that I think about it back in highschool all the analog clocks in the classrooms were atomic. damn memory is going already at 23

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SA-Baton White Dial/ProII
Tissot Le Locle

Lately, I just use http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/simpletime.html. Accessible anywhere and perfectly accurate.

As for checking the time for non-hackable watches, I just take a picture of it next to an accurate clock, like the one mentioned above, then take the same picture 24 hours later and compare.

I've taken to doing that with non-hackable ones too because it's easier than fussing around trying to set them perfectly.