Ive got a question about how most of you time your watches for accuracy. I use the national time app on my iPhone and have used a stopwatch. I'm just curious (other than vibrograh) how diffent folks time their watches

Bruce,

Maybe you will find your answer in this thread:

Non Rail Road grade watch time keeping

I use "computer time", the clock that pops up when I click the date/time at the lower right corner of my screen.

Bruce, if you are talking abouit actually checking the timing on your watch, to "match" watch speed, one of the better ways is to put an accurate running watch on your "bad" ear, let it tick there for a few seconds, then take the "unknown" watch and put it in your "good" ear so you can hear them both together. You can quickly tell if the unknown is running "out of synch."

Other than that, Beat Error, Duration, and Timing are all somewhat elusive things to try to correllate except with a nice watch timer. The best deal (and one I use) is the Mumford Microset. For US$250.00, it has most everything you want. See it at;

http://www.bmumford.com/microset.html

Thanks Joe, Christopher and Dave! Dave thats sort of what I was lookin for.. Thanks

Bruce I wind the watch and set the time to the National time App you referred to and check it over several days to see how it runs. Even simpler is to compare it for a few days against your computer clock. I do realize that this just tells you if the watch is running fast or slow but that is about all I need.