Almost MINT nick Heuer Stopwatch

[bry1975]

Chaps,

Check this practically MINT 1970s-1980s Heuer stopwatch lovely condition>>>

Edited by bry1975 on Friday 15th November 11:18

Edited by bry1975 on Friday 15th November 11:18

[AlexWF]

That is cool. What's the story behind it?

[yeti]

Lovely nick indeed!

In for service or just seen on your travels?

[ed335d]

I believe he's just sold it

[bry1975]

Yup she's going to Banbury's F1 Team Marussia.

[GC8]

Edited: mine is actually a Clubmate 1/10th and its quite different beyond the button configuration. The Trackmate pictured has a dial which is extremely similar to the Breitling 1/10ths that I have.

Edited by GC8 on Saturday 16th November 12:30

[GC8]

How accurate can they be and over what time frame? I have a box full of Heuer stopwatches and no two record the same time, even the new ones.

I started collecting digital Heuer Microsplits then and even they all record substantially different times over 8+ hours!

[JRewing]

GC8 said:

How accurate can they be and over what time frame? I have a box full of Heuer stopwatches and no two record the same time, even the new ones.

I started collecting digital Heuer Microsplits then and even they all record substantially different times over 8+ hours!

I'm very surprised about what you say about the digitals. I thought that they had a very good reputation for general accuracy.

[GC8]

I was even more surprised than you! Im trying to find a dependable long period stopwatch application to time the Microsplits against, but so far theres quite a disparity between them over anything more than an hour.

[GC8]

For those interested, I have started to time my stopwatches against a GPS receiver. For ease I start on the hour and photograph the watch/es along with the receiver to identify any human error and then come back and photograph them after 12 or 24 hours.

This allows me to calculate the exact degree of error with great accuracy.

[JRewing]

GC8 said:

For those interested, I have started to time my stopwatches against a GPS receiver. For ease I start on the hour and photograph the watch/es along with the receiver to identify any human error and then come back and photograph them after 12 or 24 hours.

This allows me to calculate the exact degree of error with great accuracy.

What sort of margins of error are you experiencing?

[GC8]

Ive seen a disparity of 1.34 seconds over 13hrs between a Microsplit 1000 and a 1010, off the top of my head.

I will know more when I am able to reliably power and provide a signal to a GPS receiver sat on my desk. I have a PDA with a GPS receiver which should be easier to set up.

[JRewing]

Thanks, GC8. I'd be very interested to hear more of your observations as they come.

[GC8]

A disparity of 1.16 seconds over 24hrs between a 1035 and a 1000. Im going to guess that the 1010 is the least accurate here, but I cant say for certain until I manage to get a GPS timecode displayed on my desk. You cant attach an external aerial to a Garmin GPS12 and neither of my GPS PDAs will come back to life... Bugger.

Edited by GC8 on Sunday 19th January 13:15

[GC8]

2.16 over 48hrs.

[GC8]

Ive just tested a brand new but quite old Heuer 701.301 and it appears to be accurate to within a second over six hours, times against GPS time. Allowing for up to 1/5th of a second for both the start and finish (I have GPS time is displayed to the second only), then this appears to be more accurate than some of the digital Microsplits!

[GC8]

In keeping with the original thread topic, this is a new Heuer stopwatch in absolutely perfect nick: