Cesium clock, I think...

Jul 03, 2013,06:21 AM
 

When I was a field engineer with a big government contractor many years ago, we had clocks like these for maintaining the time and date to the equipment I was working on.  Extremely accurate.  Thanks!    ^_^

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Just checking the date and time on my satellite clock ...

 
 By: cazalea : July 1st, 2013-19:09
Happy July 1 to you all. and I can't seem to tell which is which! Luckily my wife reminded me, as I meant to do this in the morning but it slipped my mind while I was watching the Tour de France. Oops....  

That's a very serious clock

 
 By: nilomis : July 1st, 2013-19:23
Absolutely cool! Of couse, in a few moments Nicolas will do a post stating that he dislikes the date. Cheers, Nilo

LOLLL

 
 By: flamenco : July 1st, 2013-23:34
And getting back on my chair as I type this ... LOL !

Nicolas is right...

 
 By: =RWK= : July 5th, 2013-09:55
The day should preceed the month ;-) A very nice clock indeed. Cheers, -- Richard.

As a matter of fact ...

 
 By: nilomis : July 5th, 2013-11:01
Everything should be YYYYMMDD. In this way, computers can sort the dates correctly. As a matter of fact, Nicolas is against any type of date. He barely tolerates the hour hand! Cheers, Nilo

I love mystery dials. [nt]

 
 By: tick tock doctor : July 1st, 2013-20:02

That electronic font is rarely seen here.

 
 By: bernard cheong : July 1st, 2013-23:14
Cool. I wish the late Steve Jobs lived longer. And that he was more inclusive, and sharing.

More details on the clock, if you would....

 
 By: Ronald Held : July 2nd, 2013-04:39
Is it a GPSDO?

Clock Details

 
 By: cazalea : July 2nd, 2013-16:20
These are all units from ESE . ( ) The top one is the clock itself, ES 185, corrected by geosynchronous satellite contact, not by radio signals. This one is accurate to 10 nanoseconds to the master reference clocks run by the US and other governments. It ... 

Just search on ...

 
 By: cazalea : July 3rd, 2013-07:13
ESE clock The link is Cazalea

Are the missiles ready for launching? :)

 
 By: VMM : July 2nd, 2013-04:53
Cool clock. Thanks for sharing. vte

And you THOUGHT reading Patek Philippe dials

 
 By: MTF : July 2nd, 2013-10:18
was difficult? :-) MTF

Cesium clock, I think...

 
 By: chaser579 : July 3rd, 2013-06:21
When I was a field engineer with a big government contractor many years ago, we had clocks like these for maintaining the time and date to the equipment I was working on. Extremely accurate. Thanks! ^_^