[smackeyacky]

Get a Casio G-Shock. The 800 models can sync with your phone and the time is auto corrected. I bought a GBA-800 from a pawn broker - out of the dozen or so watches in my box it's the one I reach for if I have to know what time it is accurately.

[xattt]

One of my best bang-for-the-buck purchases was a Casio Waveceptor watch with a hybrid clock face.

The watch uses the WWVB signal for nightly syncing. However, living on the East Coast means syncing is very dependent on day-to-day atmospheric propagation. When I visit more inland, it works great.

The watch face is solar powered, so I’ve never had to change the battery.

It has since been retired after 8 years of use for an Apple Watch, but I think fondly of the mighty job it did.

[mewse-hn]

I love my cheap waveceptor which is always, always accurate.

Actually in the process of choosing a casio lineage (waveceptor movement, metal case, sapphire crystal) - do I get titanium or blacked out stainless steel, lol

[interfixus]

Absolutely, get a G-Shock. But get one which radiosyncs. Most phones (and PCs), although synced by internet, reliably lag between one and two seconds.

My synced G-Shock is always correct to within better than one tenth of a second, that is, to the limit of observability. Solar powered, too, so it's just an utterly reliable black box. My favourite gadget by far.

[shirro]

Radio syncing isn't available in my country (no local transmitter and too remote to pick up other countries) so phone sync is preferable for me.

[dbttdft]

> Most phones (and PCs), although synced by internet, reliably lag between one and two seconds.

NTP isn't nearly that inaccurate.

[interfixus]

No, of course it isn't. I said most phones (and PCs). Clients often seem to lag that second or two, reason unknown, but I've always assumed due to software bloat, unstrictfulness, and indirection.

[Tor3]

I just checked the price for one of the digital G-Shocks.. I could buy a car for that! A used car, at least. So no, I'll stick with the cheap digital Casio I already have, even if it's a couple of minutes wrong today (it's a bother to adjust them all the time). At least I don't have to worry about one thing: Battery. It seems to run forever. I think the battery was supposed to last 7 years, but by now it's been twice that long. The backlight still works as normal too, if I press that button.