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Cellular Watch

 Clocks or watches that receive a signal telling the time
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How about a time piece that receives a cel or radio signal telling the time rather than having an expensive, redundant on-board movement? The cable companies already send a signal to the cable box showing the time. Watch prices would drop and everyone would show the same time. Time zones would adjust themselves with GPS to your wrist.
—jon3, Sep 07 2002

Radio synched watch http://www.lawsonwa.../lacrosradcon9.html
No GPS for time zones but radio-controlled time. [bristolz, Sep 07 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

FULLY BAKED http://www.technosc...al_Watch&site=86715
New analog faces to boot. [MySoulWanders, Oct 04 2004]

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       This is widely baked, although it is far more common in bulky clocks and hand-helds than watches. Nevertheless, I beleive they exist, albeit expensively. Normally, however, they only check and correct their time periodically, and rely on their internal mechanism the rest of the time.   

       I have a similar (cruder) system whereby my computer updates its system clock from a time server on the internet once a week - and I use that to set my watch.
—yamahito, Sep 07 2002
   

       Who pays Greenwich?
—Rhetoric, Sep 13 2002
   

       I have one, it has an internal movement though to keep time between synchronizations. It cost me 40 bucks on Amazon.
—-----, Nov 07 2005
   


 

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