Post by josejmartinez on Jul 30, 2013 8:32:26 GMT -8
Sorry... Quartz vs. RC...Norm Diaz mentioned in the ever growing thread "The accuracy difference between a radio-controlled watch and an ordinary quartz appears to be =+/- 15 seconds/month. In other words, your RC may be 15 seconds/month more accurate than your quartz watch IF the radio-control signal is properly received. Worth the price difference? You decide." I would like to expand on this subject.
Now...there are things I do not understand... Casio in the radio controlled infers that they do deviate... but every night if they catch the signal they should deviate only a fraction, a very minute fraction of a second daily. But these watches are also quartz watches so if they did not see any correction they would indeed deviate in a range of +/- 15 seconds/month. But the +/- 15 seconds is a tolerance or a statement, and that does not mean that it will not be +/- 8 seconds for one particular watch. A watch might experience + 7 seconds per year or -11 seconds per year, meaning that it was set on day 0 and then at day 365 it was 7 seconds fast or 11 seconds slow... I do not know... the only thing I can say is that in a full Quartz they will be more exact and more precise than any COSC watch. Now, if the cost matters... well yes and no... while a
DW-5600E Battery $42.92 Amazon
GW-M5610-1ER Solar RC $114.00 Amazon
Casio G Shock GW-5000 Solar RC - Japan Made screw in back $310.00
I really will not dish out more money than the $43 bucks for the battery watch. There are many around and one can get a great deal on a used one in good condition... the battery lasts ages if you do not use the light and the alarms much, much more than the 2 years they advertise. The others are just as good but they are instruments and not jewels. Therefore, my opinion is thaat NO, I will not pay more for an equivalent watch just necause it is RC, at least in the G -Shocks.
Now...there are things I do not understand... Casio in the radio controlled infers that they do deviate... but every night if they catch the signal they should deviate only a fraction, a very minute fraction of a second daily. But these watches are also quartz watches so if they did not see any correction they would indeed deviate in a range of +/- 15 seconds/month. But the +/- 15 seconds is a tolerance or a statement, and that does not mean that it will not be +/- 8 seconds for one particular watch. A watch might experience + 7 seconds per year or -11 seconds per year, meaning that it was set on day 0 and then at day 365 it was 7 seconds fast or 11 seconds slow... I do not know... the only thing I can say is that in a full Quartz they will be more exact and more precise than any COSC watch. Now, if the cost matters... well yes and no... while a
DW-5600E Battery $42.92 Amazon
GW-M5610-1ER Solar RC $114.00 Amazon
Casio G Shock GW-5000 Solar RC - Japan Made screw in back $310.00
I really will not dish out more money than the $43 bucks for the battery watch. There are many around and one can get a great deal on a used one in good condition... the battery lasts ages if you do not use the light and the alarms much, much more than the 2 years they advertise. The others are just as good but they are instruments and not jewels. Therefore, my opinion is thaat NO, I will not pay more for an equivalent watch just necause it is RC, at least in the G -Shocks.
