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ablomov
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20 Jul 2012, 11:54 am

anyone make anything and to a high standard??



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20 Jul 2012, 7:55 pm

ablomov wrote:
anyone make anything and to a high standard??


See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6gbNhS9B7g

it has presentations are several high quality navigational chronometers. These time pieces lose less than a second a week so can be relied on to give very accurate longitude.

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20 Jul 2012, 9:56 pm

10,000$~~~! !! ! :?

Maybe i'm not rich enough but I prefer these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0xamRXG ... re=related



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21 Jul 2012, 3:22 pm

The O.P. said mechanical clocks. That eliminates electronic digital clocks.

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21 Jul 2012, 4:15 pm

actually make with their own hands??