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Flying with an automatic watch


billy pilgrim

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Flew with my c-17 bremont in the T-6. Probably lost about 5-10 seconds a day, which was worse than before flying as a UPT IP. Good enough for upt.

Quartz is going to be more accurate, and probably easier to read at night.

But the Bremont is cooler than the Timex/G-shock...

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High G or not, it doesn’t matter.  A mechanical movement will never be as accurate as a quartz, they all slowly drift.  But, you don’t buy mechanicals for their accuracy. And no, ones that update via radio signal are not mechanicals. 
High G on a mechanical watch can make it worse at keeping time, since the springs and the other internals can stretch.

But yeah, a mechanical watch on its best day won't keep time better than a quartz watch

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I fly with my '75 Seiko 6139 automatic chronograph all the time.  I figure Col Bill Pogue took his up to Skylab in the 70s, mine will do alright banging around in a T6.  

Seiko 6139.jpg

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